Sen. Chuck Grassley Charles (Chuck) Ernest GrassleyTrump walks back aluminum tariffs on Canada Trump order on drug prices faces long road to finish line GOP chairman to release interim report on Biden probe 'in about a week' MORE (R-Iowa) was quick Friday to shoot down a Democratic push for Attorney General Jeff Sessions Jefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsTrump's policies on refugees are as simple as ABCs Ocasio-Cortez, Velázquez call for convention to decide Puerto Rico status White House officials voted by show of hands on 2018 family separations: report MORE to return to the Senate's Judiciary committee to discuss his conversations with the Russian ambassador.

"It’s unfortunate that the Democrats didn’t even have the decency to give him an opportunity to clear up confusion to the statement in writing," Grassley said in a statement.

The Washington Post reported that Sessions spoke to Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak during the presidential campaign, then denied any such meetings while under oath at his confirmation hearing.

Sessions said that he would send a letter to the Judiciary Committee about his previous pre-election conversations with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. But the nine Democrats on the Committee sent a letter to Grassley on Friday asking for Sessions to be brought back before the committee to be questioned over his comments.

"Given the seriousness of this manner, we do not believe that a written submission to correct the record is sufficient," they wrote.

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Grassley's office noted that "there are no plans to ask Sessions to come before the committee before an annual oversight hearing, as is customary."

Sessions said Thursday that he would recuse himself from any current or future investigations into Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, but stressed that the decision wasn't an admission of wrongdoing.

Grassley called the decision the "right thing," adding that Sessions "did exactly what he said he’d do regarding potential recusals when he was before our committee."

But Democrats are calling for the Justice Department to appoint a special prosecutor or for Sessions to resign.