--- title: Neil Gorsuch: Chuck Grassley Has to Make Bedtime description: Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley will not lose any sleep over the confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch canonical: https://time.com/4708662/chuck-grassley-neil-gorsuch-supreme-court-bedtime/ author: Mahita Gajanan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-03-21T22:48:30.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T03:57:39.813Z article:section: Politics og:title: Chuck Grassley to Leave the Neil Gorsuch Hearing Early to Make His Bedtime og:description: It's been a long day og:url: https://time.com/4708662/chuck-grassley-neil-gorsuch-supreme-court-bedtime/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt55df0e1d6f93f47b/6988bf59ab6d77f18c6ad4ef/chuck-grassley.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1024 og:image:height: 576 og:image:alt: Senate Judiciary Committee Holds Markup To Vote On Sen. 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Jeff Sessions to be the next Attorney General of the U.S. January 31, 2017 in Washington, DC. Committe Chairman Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) listens to remarks from Democratic senators during the Senate Judiciary Committee's 'markup' on the nomination of Sen. Jeff Sessions to be the next Attorney General of the U.S. January 31, 2017 in Washington, DC. Win McNamee—Getty Images by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Mar 21, 2017 10:48 PM UTC Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley will not lose any sleep over the confirmation hearing for [Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch](http://time.com/4708192/neil-gorsuch-confirmation-maternity-leave-dissertation/). The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, who presided over the confirmation hearing on Tuesday, said he will hand over responsibilities to his colleague, North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis at 8 p.m. so he can get to bed by 9 p.m., according to [Politico](https://twitter.com/seungminkim/status/844303142397333506?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref%5Furl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.usatoday.com%2Fstory%2Fnews%2Fpolitics%2Fonpolitics%2F2017%2F03%2F21%2Fchuck-grassley-bed-time%2F99468030%2F). > [](https://twitter.com/seungminkim/status/844303142397333506) It’s been a long day for Grassley — the [second day](http://time.com/4707708/neil-gorsuch-confirmation-hearing-livestream-online/) of Gorsuch’s hearing began at 9:30 a.m. E.T. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4708662/chuck-grassley-neil-gorsuch-supreme-court-bedtime/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4708662/chuck-grassley-neil-gorsuch-supreme-court-bedtime/"},"headline":"Chuck Grassley Will Leave the Neil Gorsuch Confirmation Hearing Early to Make His Bedtime","datePublished":"2017-03-21T22:48:30.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T03:57:39.813Z","description":"It's been a long day","url":"https://time.com/4708662/chuck-grassley-neil-gorsuch-supreme-court-bedtime/","keywords":["Supreme Court","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt55df0e1d6f93f47b/6988bf59ab6d77f18c6ad4ef/chuck-grassley.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Mahita Gajanan","jobTitle":"Gajanan is an editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt55df0e1d6f93f47b/6988bf59ab6d77f18c6ad4ef/chuck-grassley.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Senate Judiciary Committee Holds Markup To Vote On Sen. 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