The letter was organized by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and Reps. David Price (D-N.C.) and Ilhan Omar (D-Minn). Among the co-signers are several committee chairmen, including Foreign Affairs Chairman Gregory Meek (D-N.Y.), Armed Services Chairman Adam Smith (D-Wash.) and Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.)
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Progressives zero in on another House chairman in primary
Progressives energized by last week’s congressional primaries have another high-ranking House Democrat in their sights: Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal of Massachusetts.
Neal, 71, is facing a challenge from Alex Morse, a 31-year-old mayor who was born just a few weeks after Neal began his first term in Congress.
Eliot Engel Down by Double Digits in New Poll
House Foreign Affairs Committee chair Eliot Engel’s three-decade tenure in Congress may be coming to an end.
According to new polling from Data for Progress, middle school principal and progressive congressional candidate Jamaal Bowman has cracked open a 10-point lead in his primary bid to unseat Eliot Engel, the 16-term incumbent in New York’s 16th district.
White House memo on Soleimani strike makes no mention of imminent threat
“This official report directly contradicts the president’s false assertion that he attacked Iran to prevent an imminent attack against United States personnel and embassies,” said House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Eliot L. Engel (D-N.Y.). “The administration’s explanation in this report makes no mention of any imminent threat and shows that the justification the president offered to the American people was false, plain and simple.”
A spokesman for the National Security Council said the White House had no further comment beyond the memo.
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White House Subpoenaed in House Impeachment Inquiry
Washington, D.C. (Oct. 4, 2019)—Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, Rep. Adam Schiff, the Chairman of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and Rep. Eliot L. Engel, the Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, sent a letter conveying a subpoena to White House Acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney for key documents as part of the House of Representatives’ impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump.
US-Demokraten wollen Weißes Haus zu Herausgabe von Dokumenten zwingen
„Wir bedauern zutiefst, dass Präsident (Donald) Trump uns – und die Nation – in diese Lage gebracht hat“, hieß es in der am Freitagabend (Ortszeit) verbreiteten Erklärung der Ausschussvorsitzenden Elijah Cummings, Adam Schiff und Eliot Engel. „Aber seine Handlungen haben uns keine andere Wahl gelassen, als diese Vorladung zu erlassen.“ Trump habe den „Weg der Missachtung, Behinderung und Vertuschung“ beschritten, warfen sie ihm vor.