Democrats succeeded Thursday in delaying a committee vote to advance the confirmation of FBI director nominee Kash Patel until next week at least.
The vote, which was supposed to happen at 10:15 on Thursday, was pushed back after Senate Democrats demanded a second hearing from the Trump-aligned former Defense Department official.
In a statement Tuesday night, Grassley said attempts by top Judiciary Democrat Dick Durbin, Ill., and others to force Patel to testify again were « basesless » as he’d already sat before the committee for more than five hours and disclosed « thousands of pages » of records to the panel, as well as nearly 150 pages of responses to lawmakers’ written questions.
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Publish date : 2025-02-06 16:07:00
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