A vote on the former California congressman's nomination to head U.S. Trade and Development agency is delayed until a Senate panel reviews his FBI file.
Darrell Issa’s nomination to serve as a Trump administration trade official hit a roadblock Thursday amid concern over something in the former California congressman’s FBI background file.
Chairman Jim Risch said the committee would not vote until the White House made the FBI file available. “We’re going to get this file open,” Risch sad.when it became clear his district was turning Democratic, said after the hearing that he was surprised by Menendez’s objections and that the issue was related to his time as an Army private nearly 50 years ago.
The Times and other newspapers have written about Issa’s military service, including that he received a bad conduct rating and a demotion and that there were allegations he had stolen a fellow soldier’s car. Issa himself wrote about the incident in his 2016 biography.After the hearing, Menendez would not comment on his specific concerns about Issa but refuted Issa’s characterization that the issues had been previously disclosed.
Issa, who represented a neighboring district, said in August that he was considering running because Hunter’s legal troubles had “injured” the congressman could potentially put the largely rural district at risk.
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