Grassley Delivers Opening Remarks at Roundtable on DHS Whistleblower Retaliation, Ongoing Failure to Collect DNA at the Southern Border - Senator Chuck Grassley
07.23.2024
Opening Statement by Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa
“Reckless Disregard: How DHS’s Failure to Collect DNA at the Border Endangers Americans”
Tuesday, July 23, 2024
I want to thank Senator Johnson for co-leading this roundtable, and he was also involved in the one we had a couple weeks ago.
I hope the public understands that Republicans are in the minority, so we can’thold formal committee hearings, because only chairmen of committees, which are Democrats, call those hearings.
So, these oversight roundtables are an important part of theinvestigation that we do through our respective offices.
Senator Johnson and I have a great deal of working cooperation for a lot of our investigations.
And for you who have taken time out of your busy schedule to be here as panelists, I want to thank you for doing that.
Three of our [panelists] today are, what we classify in an official way as whistleblowers: Mark Jones, Mike Taylor and Fred Wynn.
They’re patriots and, as I often have said about whistleblowers - whether it’s these three people or others, because I’ve been dealing with this for decades - bureaucracy tends to treat whistleblowers like skunks at a picnic.
Today we’re going to discuss issues of very significant importance. Public safety is the connection.
First, the government’s failure to follow the law and, second, retaliation against whistleblowers who alerted the government to those failures.
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