Sen. Grassley: Business pressure over GA voting law 'economic terrorism'

"When partisans and companies collude to ruin the livelihoods of their opponents, there's a term for that. It's economic terrorism," Grassley said.

The ranking Republican spoke at a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee entitled "Jim Crow 2021: The Latest Assault on the Right to Vote."

The panel focused on efforts by Republicans in Georgia and elsewhere to implement new voting laws that critics say will limit voting access by African-Americans and other minorities that lead Democratic.

Several large businesses, including Delta and Coca-Cola, criticized the law. Major League Baseball moved it's All-Star Game out of Atlanta in protest.

Republicans have complained that businesses should not meddle in state legislative matters.

"When you make political comments, and it's hurts people's pocketbooks, it ought to be something that everybody would be offended by," Grassley said.