Kamala Harris calls Ron Johnson's decision to hold Burisma-Biden vote 'clear abdication of responsibility'
by Madison Dibble
| May 18, 2020 04:26 PM
Sen. Kamala Harris called on the Senate Homeland Security Committee to focus on the coronavirus rather than continuing its investigation related to the Bidens and Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian natural gas firm.
The committee will vote Wednesday on Chairman Ron Johnson's request to subpoena people from Blue Star Strategies, a Democratic public relations firm that represented Burisma in the United States while Hunter Biden was on the board. In a Monday letter to Johnson, Harris said the vote should not be prioritized over the committee's work related to the pandemic.
"It has now been over two months since our committee’s last hearing with administration officials responding to the COVID-19 pandemic and two years since we have had an oversight hearing with the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency," the California Democrat wrote.
"Rather than prioritize providing important oversight that will protect Americans from the unprecedented threat posed by this pandemic, you have continued to pursue partisan political matters — such as the markup scheduled for this Wednesday on the issuance of a subpoena — that do nothing to help the millions of constituents that we serve," she added. "This is a clear abdication of responsibility."
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