Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) stated he’s eyeing subsequent week for a last committee vote on Kash Patel’s nomination to guide the FBI, rejecting Senate Democrats’ request for a 2nd formal listening to with the nominee.
“Further hearings on his nomination are unnecessary,” Grassley stated in a commentary Tuesday.
Grassley stated Patel already testified for greater than 5 hours prior to the committee, shared “thousands of pages of records and media appearances,” and equipped 147 pages of solutions to senators’ written questions.
“The Senate Judiciary Committee will not fall for Democrats’ delay tactics,” Grassley added. “I intend to hold a final committee vote on Patel’s nomination as soon as next week.”
Previous on Tuesday, Senate Democrats at the committee wrote to Grassley to invite him to carry a 2nd listening to for Patel. They stated they sought after Patel to “clarify apparent falsehoods in his testimony” right through the primary listening to and sought after time to evaluate Patel’s grand jury testimony in connection to the federal investigation into President Trump’s retention of categorised paperwork.
Additionally they stated they sought after Patel to deal with “the recent removals and reassignments of FBI career civil servants.”
“No one was convinced by the Minority’s baseless efforts to mischaracterize and malign Kash Patel,” Grassley stated. “It’s additionally outrageous to assert that a nominee should come before the Senate to answer for government actions that occurred prior to their time at an agency.”
