United States House Committee on Oversight and Accountability

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• Key takeaways from the House Republicans' first Biden impeachment inquiry hearing
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• WATCH: House Oversight holds hearing on origins of COVID-19
• The arguments Trump’s attorneys are making to claim he’s immune from Jan. 6 prosecution

As you prepare for this hearing, we wanted to provide an update regarding outstanding issues continuing to impact patients, hospitals and health systems, as well as discuss actions for Congress and the Administration to consider going forward. Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Jennifer Granholm has agreed to appear before the House Oversight Committee after Chairman James Comer threatened to subpoena her for not agreeing to testify at a scheduled oversight hearing, the Daily Caller has first learned. Republicans have also focused a large part of their investigation on whistleblower allegations that there has been political interference in the long-running Justice Department investigation into Hunter Biden. Speaker Mike Johnson gave his stamp of approval Wednesday to the contempt process, saying that the House must uphold its subpoena power.

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Key takeaways from the House Republicans' first Biden impeachment inquiry hearing

Our mission statement is to ensure the efficiency, effectiveness, and accountability of the federal government and all its agencies. We provide a check and balance on the role and power of Washington - and a voice to the people it serves. The Ways and Means Committee Tax Teams are comprised of Republican Committee members with each team assigned specific areas of tax policy for review. The DOE has apparently declined to make Granholm available for other proposed dates, instead offering the Deputy Secretary to testify. However, the Department had previously said the Secretary is unavailable for any proposed hearing dates.

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He added, “There is no fairness or decency in what these Republicans are doing — they have lied over and over about every aspect of my personal and professional life — so much so that their lies have become the false facts believed by too many people. The hearing included testimony from Prof. Timothy Snyder, Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University; Brig. Gen. Robert S. Spalding (Ret.), Founder and Chief Executive Officer of SEMPRE; Col. Grant F. Newsham (Ret.), U.S. Marine Corps; and Mr. Peter Mattis, President of Jamestown Foundation.Committee Democrats highlighted how support for Ukraine is crucial for deterring threats posed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Forensic accountant Bruce Dubinsky, one of the GOP witnesses, undercut Republicans’ main narrative by saying there wasn’t enough evidence yet for him to conclude that there was “corruption” by the Bidens. Far from definitive, the Energy Department’s report is the latest of many attempts by scientists and officials to identify the origin of the virus, which has now killed nearly 7 million people after being first detected in the central Chinese city of Wuhan in late 2019. It happened again this week after the Energy Department confirmed that a classified report determined, with low confidence, that the virus escaped from a lab.

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AP Congressional Correspondent Lisa Mascaro and AP writers Kevin Freking and Chris Megerian contributed to this report. His lawyer has accused David Weiss, the special counsel overseeing the yearslong case, of “bowing to Republican pressure” by bringing the charges. “This kind of Chinese-Russian-MAGA propaganda and disinformation circuit now penetrates Congress itself. We all lose when our political dialogue falls prey to the disinformation of foreign states who are not members of our national political community. Foreign disinformation should have no place in defining our campaigns, controlling our elections, or thwarting our legislative process,” said Ranking Member Raskin in his opening statement. His reporting has appeared in The Diplomat Asia Pacific, NBC News, NBC OUT, NBC News NOW, and MSNBC.

None of that evidence has shown Joe Biden received any financial benefit from his son’s business dealings, but Republicans said at Thursday’s hearing what they’ve found so far has given them the justification to launch their impeachment inquiry. The House Oversight and Judiciary committees each passed contempt charges against the younger Biden with unanimous Republican support and all Democrats opposed. The action sets up a House vote on recommending criminal charges against a member of President Joe Biden’s family as the GOP moves into the final stages of an impeachment inquiry into the president himself. Comer had been signaling his intention to issue the subpoenas for the personal bank records. The move shows where Republicans will head next in their investigation as they continue to seek evidence to substantiate their unproven allegations about the president. House Republicans kicked off their first impeachment inquiry hearing Thursday laying out the allegations they will pursue against President Joe Biden, though their expert witnesses acknowledged Republicans don’t yet have the evidence to prove the accusation they’re leveling.

The committees’ votes Wednesday on contempt of Congress come a day before Hunter Biden is scheduled to make his first court appearance on tax charges filed by a special counsel in Los Angeles. He is facing three felony and six misdemeanor counts, including filing a false return, tax evasion, failure to file and failure to pay. Hunter Biden’s only remarks to reporters were when asked why he had his father on speaker phone several times during business meetings. The arrival of the president’s son at the Oversight Committee, which has been engaged in a yearlong probe, sitting in the audience with his legal team, including attorney Abbe Lowell, sent the panel into chaos. Committee Democrats stressed the importance of addressing stigmatization, discrimination, and violence based on race or national origin—especially against Chinese Americans—as we continue to counter the national security threat posed by the CCP. “We also know that Hunter Biden never held any sort of public office, and there is no evidence that he ever influenced any kind of policy in the White House,” Garcia said.

The Basis for an Impeachment Inquiry of President Joseph R. Biden, Jr.

Instead, they offered their professional opinions about the evidence previously uncovered by House Republicans, information from Hunter Biden’s criminal cases, and press reports. Rep. Katie Porter, a Democrat from California, needled what she said was hypocrisy by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, highlighting his past comments about whether a vote was needed to begin an impeachment inquiry. The records obtained by the committee have shown that during and after Joe Biden's tenure as vice president, Hunter Biden made millions of dollars through complex financial arrangements from private equity deals, legal fees and corporate consulting in Ukraine, China, Romania and elsewhere. Again, Republicans have not produced evidence that Joe Biden got paid in any of these arrangements. People should be open-minded about the evidence used in the Energy Department’s assessment, according to virologist Angela Rasmussen. But she said that without evaluating the classified report, she can’t assess if it’s persuasive enough to challenge the conclusion that the virus spread from an animal.

It’s the latest step for the inquiry, which began in September, but has so far failed to uncover evidence directly implicating the president in wrongdoing involving his son’s business dealings. Separately, Grusch, who said he led Defense Department efforts to analyze reported UAP sightings, accused the Pentagon of covering up a program that attempted to retrieve and reverse engineer UAPs, and claimed that the government has recovered "non-human biologics" from crashed UAPs. He did not cite any evidence to support these allegations, claiming that such information remains classified.

We also learned that he believes the lab leak hypothesis he publicly downplayed should not be dismissed as a conspiracy theory. As the face of America’s public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic, these statements raise serious questions that warrant public scrutiny. Granholm has now told the committee she will be able to appear to testify at a scheduled hearing on May 23, the Caller has learned. “There is no evidence to support the allegations that my father was financially involved in my business because it did not happen,” the president’s son said in those remarks. Graves told the panel that UAP sightings among commercial and military pilots are both "routine" and "grossly underreported." He added that if the public viewed the video and sensor data he witnesses, "our national conversation would change."

In their effort to rebut Republican attacks on the foreign money Hunted Biden received, Democrats have pointed to the money that Trump’s son-in-law received from Saudi Arabia. The witnesses are legal scholars and fraud experts — and weren’t involved in any of Hunter Biden’s business dealings, which are at the center of the impeachment saga. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a Democrat from New York, blasted House Republicans at Thursday’s impeachment hearing, calling their antics “an embarrassment” and needling them for bringing in witnesses who don’t have firsthand knowledge of wrongdoing.

Read the Select Subcommittee’s letter to Dr. Fauci memorializing his public hearing date here. “If the 2017 Trump tax cuts expire an average family of four earning $75,000 would see their taxes increase by $1,500 a year. A family of five with two earners making around $100,000 would see a tax increase of nearly $7,500 a year – and that’s on top of President Biden’s inflation tax, which has raised prices by 19 percent since he took office. Noncommercial use of original content on is granted to AHA Institutional Members, their employees and State, Regional and Metro Hospital Associations unless otherwise indicated. AHA does not claim ownership of any content, including content incorporated by permission into AHA produced materials, created by any third party and cannot grant permission to use, distribute or otherwise reproduce such third party content.

Jordan claimed that Hunter Biden himself said he was unqualified to sit on the board of directors of a Ukrainian energy company, Burisma Holdings. Comer told CNN this week his panel is trying to put together a timeline on where Hunter Biden was living around the time of the transfers, which occurred in July 2019 and August 2019. Republicans have responded that Kushner had a business and expertise, while Hunter Biden did not have any expertise when he hired to the board of Ukrainian energy company Burisma. Back in June, House Democrats released a transcript of Parnas’ interview with Congress in January 2020 that refute a key unverified allegation that President Joe Biden was involved in an illegal foreign bribery scheme. And in July, Parnas called on Comer to end his Biden family investigation in a letter obtained by CNN. Democrats have said that Giuliani and Parnas should be called in as witnesses because they would refute Republican allegations.

Within hours, online mentions of conspiracy theories involving COVID-19 began to rise, with many commenters saying the classified report was proof they were right all along. “Retirement from public service does not excuse Dr. Fauci from accountability to the American people. On June 3, Americans will have an opportunity to hear directly from Dr. Fauci about his role in overseeing our nation’s pandemic response, shaping pandemic-era polices, and promoting singular questionable narratives about the origins of COVID-19.