Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley accused President Obama of dictatorial behavior in a floor statement Thursday, saying that his recess appointments were not the first acts he has taken to circumvent the constitutional system of checks and balances. (more)
Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley’s Twitter account was commandeered Monday afternoon by a self-proclaimed follower of the hacker group Anonymous who used his newfound power to protest SOPA, endorse Herman Cain for President, and clean up the Senator’s grammar and sentence structure. (more)
1.) Newt est à court d’idées — Hey, did you know Mitt Romney speaks French? Well, you do now. And that means… ummmm… TheDC’s Alex Pappas reports: (more)
White House spokesman Jay Carney doubled down Thursday on President Barack Obama’s controversial claim that Richard Cordray has legal standing to use the full powers of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. (more)
President Barack Obama has created a constitutional showdown by trying to announce recess appointments when the Senate is not in recess, Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley told The Daily Caller. (more)
A Senate Judiciary Committee Republican staffer told The Daily Caller that Attorney General Eric Holder’s use of racial politics as a weapon to attack his critics is not appropriate behavior for America’s top law enforcement official. (more)
House oversight committee chairman Rep. Darrell Issa said on Friday that he thinks the groundswell in calls for Attorney General Eric Holder’s resignation, a topic that most recently took center stage at the GOP debate in Iowa Thursday night, is a sign that changes are needed at the Justice Department. (more)
1.) Break a leg, Attorney General Eric Holder — Today might not be a fun day for Eric Holder. The last time he testified before Congress, he said some things that maybe weren’t so much true, and it didn’t go very well. He’s back up again today, as TheDC’s Matthew Boyle reports: (more)
A spokesman for House oversight committee chairman Rep. Darrell Issa told The Daily Caller that the top congressional watchdog plans to push Attorney General Eric Holder on the need to fire people at the Justice Department over Operation Fast and Furious during his appearance before the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday. (more)
Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley, who has led the congressional investigation into Operation Fast and Furious with House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa, called for Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer to step down immediately. (more)
Attorney General Eric Holder’s Justice Department sought to manipulate reporters’ coverage of Operation Fast and Furious during the days preceding a November 1 Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, new emails obtained by The Daily Caller indicate. (more)
1.) Holder will have apologized for Fast and Furious, eventually — What’s more important: apologizing for a mistake, or being seen apologizing for a mistake? Eric Holder just gave us his answer. TheDC’s Matthew Boyle writes: (more)
Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley said Thursday that Attorney General Eric Holder is continuing to stonewall congressional investigation into Operation Fast and Furious. This time, Holder is refusing to provide 11 of the 12 witnesses Grassley and House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa have requested be made available for interviews. (more)
House oversight committee chairman Rep. Darrell Issa has demanded an explanation from Assistant Attorney General Ronald Weich for a false statement he made to Congress in a February 4, 2011 letter. Weich is a deputy to Attorney General Eric Holder, who has become embroiled in the scandal stemming from the failed “Operation Fast and Furious” gun-walking program. (more)
Attorney General Eric Holder refused to tell members of the Senate Judiciary Committee who he’s going to hold accountable for several aspects of the Operation Fast and Furious scandal, nor did he disclose how he is going to hold people accountable. (more)
Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley planned to grill Attorney General Eric Holder Tuesday about new evidence showing that he — or at least his immediate office staff — were aware of the deadly consequences of Operation Fast and Furious far earlier than when Holder has testified he knew. (more)
Attorney General Eric Holder will testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday morning, and he’s likely to face a barrage of tough questions from senators about Operation Fast and Furious. (more)
National Rifle Association President David Keene told The Daily Caller on Thursday that he and the NRA think Attorney General Eric Holder should resign immediately. Keene joins 34 members of Congress calling for Holder’s immediate resignation. (more)
GOP Sen. Chuck Grassley wrote to Attorney General Eric Holder last week, denouncing a proposed revision to the Freedom Of Information Act that would instruct government agencies to deny the existence of requested records even if the records actually do exist. (more)
House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa and Sen. Chuck Grassley lambasted Attorney General Eric Holder in a new letter detailing how Holder’s team has failed to provide congressional investigators with critical details surrounding the connections between Operation Fast and Furious and a second federal agent’s murder. (more)
