People are caught between the need for border security and agreeing with( what) the President's trying to do, but not how he wants to do it. Chuck Grassley More Quotes by Chuck Grassley More Quotes From Chuck Grassley Senate Judiciary Committee's speculation, i can't speculate on anything. We got President Biden. Chuck Grassley I was born at night, but not last night, so if I didn't accept the endorsement of a person who has 91 % of the Republican voters in Iowa, I wouldn't be too smart. I'm smart enough to accept that endorsement. Chuck Grassley We'll just have to wait and see if President Trump does more investigation. Chuck Grassley I don't know how you can reach any conclusion, except that Trump had everybody in White House to discuss White House and unanimously, except for one, they said you shouldn't do what the one lawyer said he thought The President ought to do, the President rejected it. The President did the right thing. Chuck Grassley I don't know how you can reach any conclusion, except that Trump had everybody in the White House to discuss it and unanimously except for one they said you shouldn't do what the one lawyer said he thought the president ought to do. The president rejected it. The President did the right thing, the president and the White House, particularly a man named Jeffrey Clark… put a full court press on the acting attorney general to try to enlist them in overturning the results of the last election. Chuck Grassley I think I keep the same schedule as when I was 65 years old, maybe even 40 years old. Chuck Grassley When they've got 50 votes, if they're going to spend this four-and-two-tenths trillion, they'll have to have the 50 votes to do it or they aren't getting anything, so why are they coming to us, I don't understand it? Chuck Grassley I've been years trying to get it done. And I hope now the time has arrived, i do believe that better understanding of all the three branches of government is very, very important. And the only one that people know least about is the judicial branch. Chuck Grassley I think when you have greater transparency, you have more accountability. Chuck Grassley Their terms didn’t expire until 2025, and there was no reasonable justification for these removals. President Biden is overtly politicizing the SSA, people don’t want their retirement and benefits politicized, they just want an agency that works. We had that under Commissioner Saul. Chuck Grassley The JEDI contract has been burdened by potential conflicts of interest, size, needless delays and its single awardee structure. Chuck Grassley So he [Cotton] and I are gonna do 22 pushups. Chuck Grassley Examples like this are exactly why House Republicans took action and prohibited these divisive concepts from being taught in Iowa schools, we heard from countless parents with these concerns of political indoctrination in their child’s school. Chuck Grassley I’m worried that this effort is going to be somehow passed off as an effort to address the number of migrants at the southern border when it does nothing to stem the flow or address the crisis created by this administration, there’s no evidence to suggest that arrivals at the southern border or illegal crossings were reduced when the Obama administration tried this years ago, so there’s no reason to think it will have that effect now. Chuck Grassley You've got to stop the bleeding before you can take care of the problem. Chuck Grassley As of now I would be. Chuck Grassley They ought to be smart enough to know that there ought to be a lot of things going around this country other than just what happened on January 6 -- and what happened in Portland and Seattle and Minneapolis and a lot of other places, including a lot of the antagonism against Jewish people right now being attacked in Los Angeles and New York. Chuck Grassley Her Twitter feed has painted Republicans with a broad brush, describing our national convention last year as three nights of quote-unquote 'racism, xenophobia, and outrageous lies,' how many of our colleagues in this room were there? Of course Ms. Gupta has in fact launched Twitter attacks on some of them directly. Will that kind of partisan political advocacy affect her legal advocacy in her role where she represents all Americans? Chuck Grassley I took a position on hearings and I stuck to it, and that's it, i admire Judge Garland's public service. Chuck Grassley Right now it looks good but I don't want to make a final decision. Chuck Grassley