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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBREAKING: Committees Seek Ukraine Documents from Vice President
Committees Seek Ukraine Documents from Vice President
Oct 4, 2019
Press Release
Washington, D.C. (Oct. 4, 2019)Today, Rep. Adam Schiff, the Chairman of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Rep. Eliot L. Engel, the Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, sent a letter requesting key documents from Vice President Michael Pence as part of the House of Representatives impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump.
The Committees are investigating the extent to which President Trump jeopardized national security by pressing Ukraine to interfere with our 2020 election and by withholding security assistance provided by Congress to help Ukraine counter Russian aggression, as well as any efforts to cover up these matters.
This request is being made jointly by the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and the Committee on Oversight and Reform under the Rules of the House of Representatives in exercise of their oversight and legislative jurisdiction.
Click here to read the letter to Vice President Pence
Issues:
Administration, Defense & National Security, Impeachment Inquiry
116th Congress
https://oversight.house.gov/news/press-releases/committees-seek-ukraine-documents-from-vice-president
Oct 4, 2019
Press Release
Washington, D.C. (Oct. 4, 2019)Today, Rep. Adam Schiff, the Chairman of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Rep. Eliot L. Engel, the Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, sent a letter requesting key documents from Vice President Michael Pence as part of the House of Representatives impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump.
Pursuant to the House of Representatives impeachment inquiry, we are hereby requesting that you produce the documents set forth in the accompanying schedule by October 15, 2019, the Chairmen wrote.
The Committees are investigating the extent to which President Trump jeopardized national security by pressing Ukraine to interfere with our 2020 election and by withholding security assistance provided by Congress to help Ukraine counter Russian aggression, as well as any efforts to cover up these matters.
Recently, public reports have raised questions about any role you may have played in conveying or reinforcing the Presidents stark message to the Ukrainian President, the Chairmen wrote. The reports include specific references to a member of your staff who may have participated directly in the July 25, 2019, call, documents you may have obtained or reviewed, including the record of the call, and your September 1, 2019, meeting with the Ukrainian President in Warsaw, during which you reportedly discussed the Administrations hold on U.S. security assistance to Ukraine.
This request is being made jointly by the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and the Committee on Oversight and Reform under the Rules of the House of Representatives in exercise of their oversight and legislative jurisdiction.
The Committees are seeking the documents in the attached schedule in order to examine this sequence of events, including the Administrations attempts to press the Ukrainian President to open an investigation into former Vice President Biden or election interference in 2016, and the reasons behind the White Houses decision to delay critical military assistance to Ukraine that was appropriated by Congress to counter Russian aggression, the Chairmen concluded.
Click here to read the letter to Vice President Pence
Issues:
Administration, Defense & National Security, Impeachment Inquiry
116th Congress
https://oversight.house.gov/news/press-releases/committees-seek-ukraine-documents-from-vice-president
Letter - https://oversight.house.gov/sites/democrats.oversight.house.gov/files/documents/2019-10-04.EEC%20Engel%20Schiff%20%20re%20Request%20to%20VP%2010-04-19%20Letter%20and%20Schedule.pdf (PDF)
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BREAKING: Committees Seek Ukraine Documents from Vice President (Original Post)
BumRushDaShow
Oct 2019
OP
MontanaMama
(23,322 posts)1. Mother won't be pleased.
Whatever will she wear to the impeachment hearings??
BumRushDaShow
(129,139 posts)4. LOL
Nevermypresident
(781 posts)2. K & R
ecstatic
(32,712 posts)3. Good. I cannot stand that smug liar.
Lock. Him. Up!