Grassley to Chair Senate Finance Committee in 2019, Vacate Judiciary Chair

Sen. Chuck Grassley will chair the Senate Finance Committee in 2019, the Iowa Republican announced Friday. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., is expected to succeed Grassley as Judiciary chair (see 1810310025). Between 2001 and 2011, Grassley held the GOP’s top Finance seat, which retiring Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, currently holds. Graham would "push for the appointment and Senate confirmation of highly qualified conservative judges to the federal bench and aggressive oversight of the Department of Justice and FBI,” he said, wanting “common sense, bipartisan solutions to major issues.”