Charles E. Grassley: “We must stop digging ourselves into an ever deeper budget hole, and I think the budget agreement reached between…”

This was the seventh farm bill I have been involved with since 1992 and the first one that I can recall that we are not doing on a bipartisan basis.

I hope Democrats caught up in the otherwise bipartisan text tranche will finally discard their partisanship and recognize the severity of the alleged violations by Smith," Grassley added.

The temptation will be to then loosen lending at the same time, which will lead to disastrous results.

As part of our investigation, we need to fully understand what Verizon knew about Smith’s subpoenas, when they became aware members were impacted and why the company didn’t inform members like they were supposed to.