Democrats question Pence, Perry on travel to Ukraine

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Senate Foreign Relations Committee ranking member Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) on Tuesday questioned Vice President Pence and Energy Secretary Rick Perry regarding their travel to Ukraine as the White House faces scrutiny for its dealings with the country.

The questions in letters Menendez sent to Pence and Perry centered around Pence’s canceled trip to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's inauguration and Perry’s trip in his place.

"Given your role as the leader of the official United States delegation to the inauguration, and the White House’s recent release of evidence that President Trump requested that Ukraine’s government investigate his domestic political opponent, your insight into the U.S. delegation’s trip is of particular interest to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee," Menendez wrote in his letter - The Hill of an otherwise RW rag