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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDems stand firm on early April deadline for Mueller report
House Democrats are standing by their April 2 deadline for the Justice Department to send special counsel Robert Mueller's full report to Congress.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) asserted in a statement Friday that the deadline "still stands" after Attorney General William Barr told lawmakers he expects to have the report ready to send to Congress and release publicly by mid-April, "if not sooner."
Nadler also welcomed Barr's willingness to testify to Congress on May 2 and said he would take that date under consideration; however, he underscored that House Democrats view it as "critical" that the attorney general appear before the committee "immediately" to explain his four-page letter from Sunday outlining Mueller's core findings.
"As I informed the Attorney General earlier this week, Congress requires the full and complete Mueller report, without redactions, as well as access to the underlying evidence, by April 2," Nadler said in a statement Friday afternoon. "That deadline still stands."
https://www.google.com/amp/s/thehill.com/homenews/house/436516-dems-stand-firm-on-early-april-deadline-for-mueller-report%3famp
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Dems stand firm on early April deadline for Mueller report (Original Post)
orangecrush
Apr 2019
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LEW
(1,072 posts)1. today is April 2nd and
Nadler was just on MSNBC saying that they will give more time to attorney general for the report and it will take more time to issue subpoenas....I have been looking for this to happen tomorrow...
OnDoutside
(19,962 posts)2. There was another Dem who said that Congress will be in recess on April 10th until 29th, and thinks
Barr knew that, so it pushes it into May.
bluestarone
(16,976 posts)4. Could they not STAY IN SESSION
Until all subpoenas were done? Is this possible?
OnDoutside
(19,962 posts)5. You'd think they could, after all McConnell has done it in the Senate.
bluestarone
(16,976 posts)6. EXACTLY (The senate did this)
At the very least it will send a strong signal of the seriousness of it!
FBaggins
(26,748 posts)3. Almost entirely grandstanding for the base
Nadler doesn't have the power to set or enforce such a deadline just by writing a letter to the AG.
He knows that there isn't much that he can do prior to Barr's expected delivery date, but he wants the base to know for certain that he wants immediate release of everything and that he's still fighting the good fight.
rockfordfile
(8,704 posts)7. Continue the House investigations into Trump/GOP's Russian friends.