"In March, just a month after the President allegedly pressured Director Comey to drop the Flynn investigation, Chairman Chaffetz and I sent a bipartisan letter to the White House requesting documents relating to General Flynn", Cummings said. Cummings said he was "personally pleased" by the choice of Mueller, but told reporters his committee's efforts would not let up because of the critical nature of Congress' duties preventing the threat posed to American democracy.
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For House Speaker Paul Ryan, the chaos of daily revelations can not become a distraction from his self-described "once in a generation" opportunity to put an ambitious legislative agenda through a Republican-controlled Congress.
Yet, Wall Street is largely unconcerned: Financial analysts are not overly anxious about what happens to UnitedHealth, which says more about the size of the company than the allegations. It is unacceptable to continue ignoring these scandals.
Separate investigations into Russian influence and the Trump-Russia connection are continuing in both houses of Congress. "There's clearly a lot of politics being played".
Ushakov said "any contacts" with the US president are "important" but he would not reply to the question whether the classified information that Trump reportedly shared with Lavrov and Kislyak was valuable for Russian Federation.
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For now, Democrats can only ask for the "tapes" that President Donald Trump has suggested may exist of his conversations with fired FBI Director James Comey.
"We need to convince enough people that it's the right thing to do", he went on, referring to Ryan and other members of the Republican conference.
Facts also were on the minds of House Democrats and their strategy of calling for an in-depth investigation. With limited political leverage in the minority party, Democrats have to be careful not to alienate voters by condemning the president without sufficient evidence.
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA), ranking member of the CIA Subcommittee of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD), ranking member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, introduced the bill in early December 2016.
Swalwell spoke to Mic just before news broke Wednesday of Robert Mueller's appointment as special counsel in charge of examining possible ties between Russian Federation and the Trump campaign.
Democrats are now gathering their colleagues' signatures on a so-called discharge petition, which would trigger a floor vote on the independent commission bill if a majority of Congress signs on. It is rarely used, but Republican intransigence on this subject has made it necessary. "It can not be perceived as an effort to nullify the election by other means".
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