“Chuck Grassley” on The Daily Caller

The U.S. Senate approved two Federal Communications Commission nominees who were held up by a Republican lawmaker challenging the agency’s handling of Philip Falcone’s LightSquared wireless venture. (more)

Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley said Thursday that Attorney General Eric Holder has a choice to make as he faces contempt of Congress proceedings: he can release the Operation Fast and Furious documents he’s withholding or he can force Congress to fight the administration. (more)

Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) said Friday he will lift a block on two Federal Communications Commission nominees who have been caught in a dispute over the agency’s handling of troubled satellite venture LightSquared. (more)

The FCC has delivered new LightSquared documents to the House Energy & Commerce Committee, according to Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), who has gotten access to them. But a first look at the document drop did not provide a lot of hope it would lead to the seating of two FCC nominees now in limbo, according to a Grassley spokeswoman. (more)

Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley is keeping the heat on the White House for the Colombian prostitute scandal. (more)

The Federal Communications Commission made at least one exception to its notoriously slow pace of responding to information requests, promptly forking over a significant cache of documents on News Corp. and Rupert Murdoch last year. (more)

The Obama administration is stonewalling two lawmakers’ requests to interview a former member of the National Security staff in connection with the failed Operation Fast and Furious gun-walking program, according to a March 28 letter obtained by The Daily Caller. (more)

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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)