House Oversight Cmte. votes to subpoena DOJ, DHS and HHS for documents related to family separation policy.
, the first issued in the new Congress as Democrats have promised to hold the administration aggressively to count.
The committee's chairman, Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland, has pledged to press the administration for documents and testimony on a wide swath of issues, but family separation was among his first priorities. Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, the committee's ranking Republican, sent Cummings a letter arguing that the subpoenas would not be necessary, and that the administration had produced hundreds of pages of documents in response to earlier requests for information.
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