House Oversight Dems: GOP blocking request for Trump admin records

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Source: the hill






By Brett Samuels - 03/15/18 04:42 PM EDT



Democrats on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee said Thursday that committee Republicans are blocking efforts to get documents from the Trump administration necessary for an investigation into the White House’s use of private emails and private jets.

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In particular, Democrats on the panel are interested in White House senior adviser Jared Kushner's testimony about his actions prior to having his security clearance downgraded from "top secret" to "secret," Reuters reported.

Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), the ranking Democrat on the committee, wrote a letter to Chairman Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) on Wednesday urging the chairman to subpoena the White House for documents.

"When you served as Chairman of the Benghazi Select Committee, you took a completely different approach to investigating Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of private email,” Cummings wrote. “You demanded  —  and I supported  —  the production of all of her emails relating to Benghazi."

"In contrast, since President Trump assumed office, you have refused to insist on the production of documents we both requested five months ago," he added.

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Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/house/378670-house-oversight-dems-gop-stalling-on-trump-administration-records-request

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Hypocrite is too of a term. There is #corruption by the Repugs in Congress.

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[SoCalMusicLover]

1. I Bet They Would Gladly Investigate Hillary's E-Mails

Clearly more important looking at someone who is now in public life, rather than the CRIMINAL in the White House.

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. Civil unrest? Is that what these traitors want?

[HopeAgain]

3. You couldn't make this kind of duplicity up.

Dumbfounding, really.

[Honeycombe8]

4. This gets me spittin' mad. This is why a lot of Repubs are retiring...

they're going out in full corpus delicti...with blood on their hands, so to speak. They know they won't get re-elected, after their open corrupt acts. They sold out their country for money. They'll go on to lucrative careers, with pockets stuffed with cash from paybacks and tax cuts and future deals.

[bucolic_frolic]

5. This is very alarming because the GOP obviously doesn't think it will ever be in the minority

which means they have other plans that do not involve bipartisanship or democracy.

[Farmer-Rick]

7. That maybe true but they are also just sure No One will hold them accountable

Just like No One held the banks accountable for massive fraud and the crash of the US economy. And like No One held the W. RepubliCONS accountable for torture and spying on Americans without warrants.

So, it's not that they think they wont get caught or identified, it's just that no one has ever bothered to prosecute them when they were caught red handed. We seem to have a history of allowing RepuliCONS to get out of jail free.

[bucolic_frolic]

8. Yeah because

they are the "job creators" and can make life miserable if they want to

[Mc Mike]

6. Brazenly swinish hypocrites?