House Homeland Security chair: 'Unacceptable' that Nielsen won't testify next week
Source: The Hill
By Brett Samuels - 01/29/19 06:40 PM EST
House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie Johnson (D-Miss.) criticized Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen on Tuesday for declining to testify before the panel.
Johnson wrote to Nielsen, indicating she had refused to appear before the committee on Feb. 6 to discuss border security. Johnson called her decision "unreasonable and unacceptable."
"Your attempt to use the President’s recent shutdown as an excuse not to testify before Congress prior to the impending shutdown is outrageous," he wrote. "As Secretary of Homeland Security, you should be prepared to testify on border security, the very issue that caused the recent shutdown, at any time and certainly prior to the potential February 15 lapse in appropriations."
The Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Hill about Nielsen's refusal to testify, or whether she would appear at another date......................
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/house/427555-house-homeland-security-chair-says-nielsen-refused-to-testify-on-feb-6
YES!! Subpoena her. Now.
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New sheriff in the house.
She's been working hard at claiming that title and now this......................... 
