House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer says he will initiate contempt of Congress hearings this week over FBI Director Chris Wray's refusal to physically turn over a document that Republicans believe is related to Pres. Biden.
Comer's announcement followed a briefing by FBI officials in which the Kentucky Republican and the Oversight Committee's ranking Democrat, Jamie Raskin of Maryland, reviewed a document the House GOP thinks is linked to an alleged criminal scheme involving then-Vice President Biden -- a suspicion the White House has dismissed.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said on Fox News on Monday night that the contempt process for Wray would first go through the Oversight Committee and then to the floor for a vote "next week." Comer and Raskin differed over the veracity of the underlying allegations, with Raskin in a statement on Monday calling them uncorroborated even after they were reviewed by authorities in 2020 -- but Comer insisted they hadn't been "disproven."
In a statement on Monday, Sams, like Raskin, said the accusations had been previously investigated. "This is yet another fact-free stunt staged by Chairman Comer not to conduct legitimate oversight, but to spread thin innuendo to try to damage the President politically and get himself media attention," he said.
In a statement on Monday, an FBI spokesperson reiterated that they are working with the House committee by allowing the document to be reviewed by lawmakers. They said such an arrangement was a "commonsense safeguard" that protected sources and investigations.FBI Director Christopher Wray testifies during a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies hearing on Capitol Hill, May 10, 2023 in Washington, DC.
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