Grassley Blames Schumer for Discord, Committee Boycotts

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is telling Democrats to boycott committee hearings on President Donald Trump's nominees and creating issues that were not going on just a few days ago, Sen. Chuck Grassley said Thursday.

"That did not happen in my committee yesterday or the day before," the Iowa Republican, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, told Fox News' "America's Newsroom" program. "We did have some long speeches, but I was able to have the full cooperation of Democrats on my committee and we did vote out Sen. [Jeff] Sessions."

"I know that in our committee, one of his top staffers was there telling Democrats what to do," said Grassley. "I can't speak for the Finance Committee even though I'm on that committee. But they didn't show up and you saw today they didn't show up at EPA."

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