
U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on his financial agenda at Prince George’s Community College in Largo, Maryland, September 14, 2023.
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The House Oversight Committee will hold the first hearing on the impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden on Sept. 28, a committee spokesperson stated Tuesday.
“The hearing will deal with constitutional and authorized questions surrounding the President‘s involvement in corruption and abuse of public workplace,” the spokesperson stated in an announcement.
Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, the Oversight Committee chair, stated Tuesday that he plans to subpoena the private financial institution data of Hunter Biden, the president’s son, and his brother James Biden.
UNITED STATES – SEPTEMBER 13: Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., arrives for the House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing titled “Unsuitable Litigation: Oversight of Third-Party Litigation Funding” in Rayburn Building on Wednesday, September 13, 2023.
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A spokesperson for the oversight committee stated the subpoenas may come as early as this week.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-California, final week directed three GOP-led committees to launch an impeachment inquiry into Biden.
McCarthy claimed throughout a press convention that the president had lied to the American folks about his information of his household’s enterprise dealings.
The impeachment inquiry is being led by Comer on the Oversight Committee, Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan of Ohio, and Ways and Means Committee Chair Jason Smith of Missouri.
Comer stated he’s nonetheless finalizing the main points the impeachment inquiry with McCarthy, Jordan and Smith: “Once all of the i’s are dotted, t’s are crossed, I count on to difficulty a subpoena to Hunter and James Biden’s private financial institution data,” Comer stated Tuesday as he left a GOP convention Meeting.
The Oversight Committee opened an investigation in January into allegations that Biden profited from his son Hunter’s enterprise dealings whereas he was vice chairman.
Ian Sams, White House spokesperson for oversight and investigations, stated final week that Republicans have been investigating the president for 9 months and have turned up no proof of wrongdoing.
Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland, the rating Democrat on the oversight committee, has referred to as that GOP investigation into Biden a “full and whole bust.”
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