On August 29, Senators Steve Daines (R-Montana), Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas), Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), James Inhofe (R-Oklahoma), and others sent a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry intended to block current backdoor gun control efforts by the State Department.
Senate Republicans, led by Sen. Susan Collins (R.-Maine), worked Monday night with Democrats, such as Sen. Chris Murphy (D.- Conn.), to fashion a compromise to give Democrats the No-Fly-No-Buy legislation they have been demanding in their political response to the June 12 spree-shooting in an Orlando, Florida gay nightclub.
The Senate is expected to vote on a number of gun control measures Monday, all of which are in response to the June 12 Orlando terror attack.
Sen. Chuck Grassley has decided to take the advice of Joseph Biden regarding Supreme Court nominees, and has now embraced the “Biden Rules” that the current vice-president and former Senator described in a 1992 Senate speech.
After learning the news of the February 13 death of Associate Justice Antonin Scalia, Senate Judiciary Chairman Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) issued a statement praising Scalia’s intellect and made clear the Senate must hold to “80 years” of precedent in not
Grassley sent a letter to Attorney General Loretta Lynch, asking her to answer several questions about the deal that was approved by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) an interagency panel on which representatives of the Department of Treasury, the Department of State, the Department of Justice and six other cabinet departments or agencies sit.
Early Friday morning, Border Patrol agents arrested a man as he attempted to illegally force his way into the United States over the southern border near the Calexico Port of Entry. Upon a records search, it was discovered that he was convicted of sex offenses in Utah and is a citizen of Mexico.
Friday on Iowa Public Television, Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) said the debate over state versions of The Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 is “both liberals and conservatives” promoting their agendas and he said, “That’s sad.” Grassely stood behind the
