06.06.2023
Grassley's Message to the Biden DOJ and FBI: Quit Playing Games with the American People
Prepared Floor Remarks by Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa
To the Biden Justice Department and FBI: Quit Playing Games with the American People
Tuesday, June 6, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c08YhKl8sPI&ab_channel=SenChuckGrassleyOnce again, I’m here to discuss my constitutional oversight of the Justice Department and the FBI.
It surely has been a very busy year thus far for congressional oversight, and let me say, rightly so. That’s the way it should be.
We know, first, Congress passes laws.
But Congress can’t stop there. We’ve got to make sure that Congress follows up to guarantee under our check and balances of our constitution that a president will “faithfully execute” the laws.
In many of my speeches on the topic of oversight, I’ve discussed how political infection has taken root within the Biden Justice Department and FBI.
Such a political infection is catastrophic to the trust the American people must have in these institutions in order for those institutions to have any legitimate effect.
To restore this country’s confidence in the Justice Department and the FBI, these agencies must come clean with the 1023 document that whistleblowers have approached me about.
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