WASHINGTON – As Congress resumes session this week, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley today released an updated report on the committee's work in the 114th Congress. The progress report highlights legislative accomplishments as well as the committee’s work to process judicial nominations and conduct government oversight.
Just today, the committee held hearings for five of President Obama’s nominations to the federal bench. Under Grassley’s chairmanship, the committee has conducted hearings for 54 of President Obama’s judicial nominations. By comparison, the Democrat-led committee held hearings for only 47 of President Bush’s nominees in the final two years of his presidency. Tomorrow, the committee is poised to report three more nominees to the full Senate – one judicial nominee and two sentencing commissioners.
The committee will also begin the process of considering several more legislative items in the coming weeks and is expected to convene a full slate hearings before the October break on topics ranging from the implications of relinquishing oversight of the Internet to the antitrust consideration of consolidation within the seed and chemical industries.
Click HERE to view the report.
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