Seven-term Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, incoming chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, suggested Tuesday that releasing a House ethics report on Matt Gaetz would spur “faster consideration” of his nomination for attorney general.
Grassley made the comments to a CNN camera crew on Tuesday, The Hill reported, becoming the latest Senate Republican to call for the House Ethics Committee to release its report on allegations of sex trafficking, statutory rape, and illicit drug use against the former Florida congressman. Gaetz has denied the allegations.
“I would suggest if they want a speedy consideration of this … it would help faster consideration, the extent to which they would make as much available as they can,” said Grassley, who will host the confirmation hearings of President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks beginning in January.
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