Democrats on the House Natural Resources Committee gave Chairman Raúl Grijalva unilateral power to subpoena documents from the Interior Department and other agencies — prompting Republicans to vow payback
Democrats on the House Natural Resources Committee gave Chairman Raúl Grijalva unilateral power Wednesday to subpoena documents from the Interior Department and other agencies — prompting Republicans to vow payback.
But Interior Secretary David Bernhardt denounced the move, and other Republicans said they may well wield the same tactics against Democrats the next time the GOP regains the majority. The GOP blowback echoed President Donald Trump's continued broadsides against his just-concluded impeachment trial, which he's denounced as a "witch hunt." That trial followed an investigation in which
subpoenas should receive full committee votes, as they did several times during the Obama administration“This is a bad idea,” Rep. Don Young , a former committee chairman, said. “You will divide this committee. We won’t accomplish what we seek. And we do not do our duty to the country nor the people which you represent.”
The committee rejected an amendment from Rep. Mike Johnson that would bar the use of subpoenas on private citizens. Grijalva said he has no plans to subpoena private citizens, but that allowing the amendment would create an incentive for officials to leave the administration to shield themselves from subpoenas. It also rejected an amendment from Rep.
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