House chairman threatens Nielsen with subpoena if she doesn't testify
A key Democratic House chairman is threatening to issue a subpoena to Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen if she doesnt appear before the House homeland security panel before the end of February.
I hope she sees the value in talking to the committee of jurisdiction for her agency, said Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), who chairs the House Homeland Security Committee. But if it comes to the fact that we cant get [her testimony] any other way, it would not be a problem for me to do it.
Thompsons subpoena threat comes a day after he sent a strongly worded letter to Nielsen, calling her refusal to testify before the panel on Feb. 6 unreasonable, unacceptable, and outrageous.
Tyler Houlton, a spokesman for Nielsen, called Thompsons letter misleading and said the department proposed alternative dates for a hearing, which Thompson initially scheduled for next week.
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