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Judiciary Committee ranking member Doug Collins (R-GA) on "transparent" A.G. Barr
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-judiciary-committee-vote-mueller-subpoenas-wednesday-n989456
The House Judiciary Committee will vote Wednesday on whether to authorize subpoenas to obtain not only special counsel Robert Mueller's full report and its underlying evidence, but also documents from five former White House officials related to that investigation.
Those individuals are former White House counsel Don McGahn, former White House chief of staff Reince Priebus, former White House communications director Hope Hicks, former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon and former White House deputy counsel Ann Donaldson.
Should the committee vote to approve the subpoenas Wednesday morning, the timing of their issuance will be left to the discretion of Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y.
The vote will come more than a week after Attorney General William Barr released a four-page summary of Mueller's report on Russian interference in the 2016 election and whether any members or associates of the Trump campaign work with Russian officials to meddle in the election.
"Judiciary Democrats have escalated from setting arbitrary deadlines to demanding unredacted material that Congress does not, in truth, require and that the law does not allow to be shared outside the Justice Department," Judiciary Committee ranking member Doug Collins, R-Ga., said in a statement. "It’s unfortunate that a body meant to uphold the law has grown so desperate that it’s patently misrepresenting the law, even as the attorney general has already demonstrated transparency above and beyond what is required."
The House Judiciary Committee will vote Wednesday on whether to authorize subpoenas to obtain not only special counsel Robert Mueller's full report and its underlying evidence, but also documents from five former White House officials related to that investigation.
Those individuals are former White House counsel Don McGahn, former White House chief of staff Reince Priebus, former White House communications director Hope Hicks, former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon and former White House deputy counsel Ann Donaldson.
Should the committee vote to approve the subpoenas Wednesday morning, the timing of their issuance will be left to the discretion of Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y.
The vote will come more than a week after Attorney General William Barr released a four-page summary of Mueller's report on Russian interference in the 2016 election and whether any members or associates of the Trump campaign work with Russian officials to meddle in the election.
"Judiciary Democrats have escalated from setting arbitrary deadlines to demanding unredacted material that Congress does not, in truth, require and that the law does not allow to be shared outside the Justice Department," Judiciary Committee ranking member Doug Collins, R-Ga., said in a statement. "It’s unfortunate that a body meant to uphold the law has grown so desperate that it’s patently misrepresenting the law, even as the attorney general has already demonstrated transparency above and beyond what is required."
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