Chuck Grassley: “today, I come to the Senate floor to talk about my ongoing Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives oversight…”

“today, I come to the Senate floor to talk about my ongoing Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives oversight regarding the intentional misclassification of law enforcement positions--all of this costing the taxpayers tens of millions and dollars. As my colleagues know, I have done a lot of ATF oversight work, dating back more than a decade. The Obama-Biden administration coverup in ``Fast and Furious'' is just one example. But, today, we don't need to go back to 2011. Today, we will start in January 2018. According to emails provided to me by ATF whistleblowers, ATF leadership was notified in January 2018 that some non-law enforcement positions were misclassified as law enforcement. That misclassification cost taxpayers tens of millions of dollars because law enforcement gets paid more than non-law enforcement positions. Specifically, in these ATF emails from January and June of 2018, whistleblowers alerted ATF officials that positions in the human resources division were misclassified. The positions were classified as law enforcement, but they performed no law enforcement duties. This is an example that I keep telling my colleagues we need to pay more attention to, information that comes from these patriotic people we call whistleblowers. Accordingly, these positions were misclassified in violation of law.…”