Report: Biden Administration Will Not Comply with House Republicans Outstanding Oversight RequestsJordan Dixon-Hamilton 29 Dec 2022
President Joe Biden’s White House told Reps. James Comer (R-KY) and Jim Jordan (R-OH) that the administration will not comply with House Republicans’ outstanding oversight requests, according to a letter obtained by Politico.
Although the Republican Party will not regain control of the House majority and committees until next month, several top House Republicans have already sent records requests to Biden’s White House in anticipation of the investigations they plan to conduct.
House Republicans are preparing to investigate the Biden White House for several things, including the ongoing border and fentanyl crises, the energy crisis, Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan, Hunter Biden’s business dealings, and the origins of the coronavirus.
Recently, Comer and Jordan sent letters to the Biden administration requesting they provide documents on the Afghanistan withdrawal by December 20 and documents on the origins of coronavirus by December 27.
However, White House Special Counsel Richard Sauber told Reps. Comer and Jordan that the Biden administration does not plan to respond to the records request they have made in recent weeks.
Sauber argued the Republican representatives’ records request were constitutionally illegitimate because the GOP is not yet in control of congressional committees.
“Congress has not delegated such [oversight] authority to individual members of Congress who are not committee chairmen, and the House has not done so under its current Rules,” Sauber wrote.
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