House Oversight chairman invites Biden to testify as GOP impeachment inquiry stalls [View all]
Source: CBS News
March 28, 2024 / 4:32 PM EDT
Washington — The Republican-led House Oversight Committee has invited President Biden to testify publicly as the panel's monthslong impeachment inquiry has stalled after testimony from the president's son failed to deliver a smoking gun.
In a seven-page letter to the president on Thursday, Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, the committee's chairman, asked Mr. Biden to appear on April 16, an invitation he is almost certain to decline.
"I invite you to participate in a public hearing at which you will be afforded the opportunity to explain, under oath, your involvement with your family's sources of income and the means it has used to generate it," Comer wrote, noting that it is not unprecedented for sitting presidents to testify to congressional committees.
They have done so just three times in American history, according to the Senate Historical Office. The most recent instance came in 1974, when President Gerald Ford testified about his decision to pardon former President Richard Nixon. Comer teased a formal request for Mr. Biden's testimony last week, which a White House spokesperson called a "sad stunt at the end of a dead impeachment."
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Link to Oversight Committee letter (PDF) - https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/2024-03-28-CJC-letter-to-JRB.pdf
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