House Foreign Affairs chairman Eliot Engel announced on Friday that his committee “will begin work on a resolution holding Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in contempt” after he defied to comply with subpoenas issued by the panel.
“I gave Mr. Pompeo ample opportunity to fulfill my request for documents, which I first made more than three months ago,” Engel said in his announcement.
You can read the full statement below:
Just in: House Foreign Affairs chairman Eliot Engel announces that the committee “will begin work on a resolution holding Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in contempt” over his defiance of subpoenas issued by the panel pic.twitter.com/4ZTGxWJwBB
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) August 28, 2020
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