User Clip: Grassley: I won't stop speeches, depite Republican Requests.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA): “Those of you on my side of the aisle that have asked me to intervene when speeches get too long, I’m not going to do that. First of all, Senator Leahy deserves, I think, special consideration because he’s a longtime member of the committee, a former Chairman. And secondly I’ve been in this committee for a long period of time and usually if you start raising issues, particularly on an important issue like this for the Attorney General of the United States, you end up spending more time arguing about it than you do letting… if somebody speaks. So I hope that you’ll be tolerant of my not rapping the gavel every time someone goes longer than you think they should.” close