#congressional-investigation

#congressional-investigation

I think it's something that James Comer, if he's actually being honest about Congress being a separate and coequal branch of government. We don't work for Donald Trump. We don't work for JD Vance. We don't work for their billionaire donors. We work for the American people, and Congress, in its role as a separate and co-equal branch of government, should make sure that the administration comes clean as it relates to the president's ability to do his job at the level that the American people deserve.

And now, in what may be his most career-defining moment yet, Hegseth is confronting questions about the use of military force and demands he release the videotapes after a special operations team reportedly attacked survivors of a strike on an alleged drug boat off the coast of Venezuela. Some lawmakers and legal experts say the second strike would have violated the laws of armed conflict.

A congressperson investigating the Jeffrey Epstein case accused the former prince, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, of hiding from his committee's request to sit for a deposition, as Congress moves closer to a key vote on forcing release of US government files related to the alleged sex trafficker. Suhas Subramanyam is among the Democratic members of the oversight committee in the House of Representatives who earlier this month asked Mountbatten-Windsor to sit for a deposition as part of its investigation

The investigation will explore how the California Volunteer Fund spent a $500,000 grant it received from the disaster-relief charity FireAid. Two House Republicans launched an investigation on Wednesday that will, in part, examine how a California charitable organization used a $500,000 grant that was meant to support victims of the deadly Palisades and Eaton fires, a move that is expanding congressional scrutiny over the response to the disaster.