Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley said Thursday he resents Senate leadership’s effort to keep Grassley’s committee from asking fired FBI Director James Comey questions.
Comey is testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday about Russian meddling in the November 2016 elections. Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, a Democrat, said at a Judiciary Committee meeting that it’s too bad Comey would not appear before the panel.
“At some point, the leadership in both the majority and the minority have to say that this is, [we] must have some role in asserting the jurisdiction of this committee,” Klobuchar said. “Because we have these kinds of jurisdictional disputes sometimes but it seems to me that all, nearly like 90 percent of these issues, should be under our committee.”
Grassley said he and the committee’s top-ranking Democrat, California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, were pushing to get answers from Comey.
“I think you’re finding a stone wall that opposes what you and I feel about this, and I resent it,” Grassley replied to Klobuchar.
