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Rep. Cummings Drafts White House Subpoena Proposal

BALTIMORE (WJZ) -- Members of key congressional committees are pledging to proceed with aggressive investigations into Russia's meddling into the U.S. presidential elections, including why former FBI director James Comey was fired from his job.

Maryland Congressman Elijah Cummings wants to subpoena any notes of meetings between Comey and the president.

In a statement, Congressman Cummings said:

"The White House is obstructing our investigation on the Oversight Committee, covering up for General Flynn, and refusing to produce a single document that Chairman Chaffetz and I asked for in a bipartisan letter two months ago. I have prepared a subpoena that the Chairman could sign today. If he does not want to do that, we ask that he allow the Committee Members to vote on it.

"Legitimate, credible oversight of the White House is almost non-existent across the entire House of Representatives. This problem is not limited to the Oversight Committee. The White House has not produced a single document to the Oversight Committee, Judiciary Committee, or Intelligence Committee. There is no longer any excuse to allow the White House to continue stonewalling.

"We need to know what the President, Vice President, White House Counsel, and others knew when they made General Flynn National Security Advisor and gave him access to our nation's most highly classified secrets. We don't have any White House documents about the vetting process they used, whether General Flynn's lawyers warned the White House that he was under investigation, contacts General Flynn had with the Russian ambassador, what the White House knew about General Flynn's lobbying for Turkish interests, or why the President let General Flynn keep his security clearance even after Sally Yates warned that he was compromised. That's why we need the subpoena."

Cummings also prepared a draft subpoena for House Oversight Committee Chair Rep. Jason Chaffetz to consider signing.

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