Grijalva: House panel considering subpoenas for Interior information
Grijalva has said Interior officials have been unresponsive to his requests for information on the agency's restructuring that it filed in 2017 with the White House, as well as documents about itsMultiple Natural Resources subcommittee chairmen expressed openness toward ratcheting up the pressure through subpoenas and other tactics to address what they saw as stonewalling by the agency.
“If they’re not going to comply, we have to find a way for us to make them comply, largely because we have to preserve this idea of separation of powers and checks and balances,” he said. “This is a categorical flouting of Congress’ Article I authority with every committee on every issue from every agency across the board. We’ve never seen anything like this,” he said.hearing
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