Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said he would block one of President Obama’s nominees to the Department of Justice partially because of the controversial prisoner exchange.

Senators demanded Thursday that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) review U.S. access to emergency medial personnel that have sexual assault training.

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said Tuesday that President Obama’s judicial nominee for the First District Court of Appeals “simply doesn’t belong on the bench.”

Grassley, who serves as ranking member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said Harvard professor David Barron is too liberal and would politicize the court.

Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) called on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to follow the House’s lead and form a select committee to investigate the Obama administration’s response to a terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya.

“My friends on the other side ought to stop trying to protect the administration when these are serious charges,” Hatch said on the Senate floor Thursday. “I urge the Majority Leader to join the House in forming a joint select committee to investigate the Benghazi attack and its aftermath.”