Chuck Grassley

Senator Wyden and I were almost ready to ask the committee to release the final report.

I wish the young people would come and make as much concern about the debt as older people make.

I regularly hear from my colleagues on the other side of the aisle contending Republicans are attempting to manufacture a crisis in the Disability Insurance program where none exists.

It is generally understood that demographic changes have contributed to increased benefits and the projected shortfall.

I think the President's budget is an ideological statement based on the faith of government making decisions as opposed to individuals making decisions.

I think most Americans, if asked, would say the President's priorities look like pretty much common sense to me.

So while I hear some of my colleagues talk about the independence of the Attorney General, well, it is perhaps some independence, but it really is the independence of one's personal conviction.

You can take the job and implement the policies, or you can say, 'Mr. President, I think what you are trying to do is improper, even illegal, unconstitutional' and quit.

I told Senator Leahy, whom I partnered with on a number of Freedom of Information reforms, he and I are the Senate's odd couple when it comes to that.

I feel very, very confident in voting for Loretta Lynch as Attorney General.

The Congress refused to pass what the President wanted to do.

When 64,000 pages are supposedly privileged, then I wonder, what does the President know about it if they can be protected that way?

In my opinion, one of the Attorney General's biggest mistakes was not following through on the President's promise to be the most transparent administration in history.

I hope that when we are done here that you do not get this attitude that the way this chaotic place is run, why should you be working with a Congress of the United States that does not always work this way.

I have discussed the case with Attorney General Holder, had a couple of telephone conversations.

This suggests the administration is not prioritizing the removal of criminal aliens very well.

You suggested earlier that prosecutorial discretion allows the administration to prioritize removal of criminal aliens from the country.

That is disgraceful.

The Attorney General has been openly contemptuous of the oversight responsibilities of a co-equal branch of Government.

What are the outer limits of the doctrine of prosecutorial discretion, and why don't the President's actions exceed those boundaries?

Not only is this action contrary to our laws, it is a dangerous abuse of Executive authority.

The Department has also failed to hold another Government agency accountable: the Internal Revenue Service.

The Department's own Inspector General listed as one of its top management challenges 'Restoring Confidence in the Integrity, Fairness, and Accountability of the Department.'

Transparency, I believe, and, in fact, does bring accountability.

The public's business ought to be public.