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Memo and Draft Subpoena from Cummings, Schiff, and E. Engel re: Compelling White House to Produce Documents Whistleblower Complaint on Ukraine (Kelly Smith, comp.) 1 (10/2/2019)

handle is hein.presidents/usgvtwht0062 and id is 1 raw text is: E£., #44 s ,A¥,#ONE HUNDRED SIXTEENTH CONGRESS .J M ~OA , oH 0 r I gr ,e S [ 5nt ott1 L11 tatt5 71on e i prtntit b COMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT AND REFORM 2157 R tURN HOUSE OFFICE BU LDNG WASHINGTON, DC 20515 6143 MEMORANDUM October 2, 2019 To: Members of the Committee on Oversight and Reform Fr: Chairman Elijah E. Cummings Re: Notice of Intent to Issue Subpoena Pursuant to the House of Representatives' impeachment inquiry, this memorandum provides Committee Members with notice of my intent to issue a subpoena to the White House. This subpoena will be issued by the Committee on Oversight and Reform on Friday, October 4, 2019, under the Rules of the House of Representatives in exercise of its oversight and legislative jurisdiction and after consultation with the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. The Committees are investigating the extent to which President Trump jeopardized national security by pressing Ukraine to interfere with our 2020 election and by withholding security assistance provided by Congress to help Ukraine counter Russian aggression, as well as any efforts to cover up these matters. I do not take this step lightly. Over the past several weeks, the Committees tried several times to obtain voluntary compliance with our requests for documents, but the White House has refused to engage with or even respond to the Committees. Only after overwhelming public pressure did the Trump Administration finally release the incriminating record of the President's July 25, 2019, call with the Ukrainian President and reverse its misguided decision to block the whistleblower complaint submitted to the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community from being transmitted to Congress as required by federal law. The White House's flagrant disregard of multiple voluntary requests for documents combined with stark and urgent warnings from the Inspector General about the gravity of these allegations have left us with no choice but to issue this subpoena.

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