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As you prepare for this hearing, we wanted to provide an update regarding outstanding issues continuing to impact patients, hospitals and health systems, as well as discuss actions for Congress and the Administration to consider going forward. Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Jennifer Granholm has agreed to appear before the House Oversight Committee after Chairman James Comer threatened to subpoena her for not agreeing to testify at a scheduled oversight hearing, the Daily Caller has first learned. Republicans have also focused a large part of their investigation on whistleblower allegations that there has been political interference in the long-running Justice Department investigation into Hunter Biden. Speaker Mike Johnson gave his stamp of approval Wednesday to the contempt process, saying that the House must uphold its subpoena power.

WATCH LIVE: House Oversight Committee holds second impeachment inquiry hearing

We also learned that he believes the lab leak hypothesis he publicly downplayed should not be dismissed as a conspiracy theory. As the face of America’s public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic, these statements raise serious questions that warrant public scrutiny. Granholm has now told the committee she will be able to appear to testify at a scheduled hearing on May 23, the Caller has learned. “There is no evidence to support the allegations that my father was financially involved in my business because it did not happen,” the president’s son said in those remarks. Graves told the panel that UAP sightings among commercial and military pilots are both "routine" and "grossly underreported." He added that if the public viewed the video and sensor data he witnesses, "our national conversation would change."

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Jordan claimed that Hunter Biden himself said he was unqualified to sit on the board of directors of a Ukrainian energy company, Burisma Holdings. Comer told CNN this week his panel is trying to put together a timeline on where Hunter Biden was living around the time of the transfers, which occurred in July 2019 and August 2019. Republicans have responded that Kushner had a business and expertise, while Hunter Biden did not have any expertise when he hired to the board of Ukrainian energy company Burisma. Back in June, House Democrats released a transcript of Parnas’ interview with Congress in January 2020 that refute a key unverified allegation that President Joe Biden was involved in an illegal foreign bribery scheme. And in July, Parnas called on Comer to end his Biden family investigation in a letter obtained by CNN. Democrats have said that Giuliani and Parnas should be called in as witnesses because they would refute Republican allegations.

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AP Congressional Correspondent Lisa Mascaro and AP writers Kevin Freking and Chris Megerian contributed to this report. His lawyer has accused David Weiss, the special counsel overseeing the yearslong case, of “bowing to Republican pressure” by bringing the charges. “This kind of Chinese-Russian-MAGA propaganda and disinformation circuit now penetrates Congress itself. We all lose when our political dialogue falls prey to the disinformation of foreign states who are not members of our national political community. Foreign disinformation should have no place in defining our campaigns, controlling our elections, or thwarting our legislative process,” said Ranking Member Raskin in his opening statement. His reporting has appeared in The Diplomat Asia Pacific, NBC News, NBC OUT, NBC News NOW, and MSNBC.

Read the Select Subcommittee’s letter to Dr. Fauci memorializing his public hearing date here. “If the 2017 Trump tax cuts expire an average family of four earning $75,000 would see their taxes increase by $1,500 a year. A family of five with two earners making around $100,000 would see a tax increase of nearly $7,500 a year – and that’s on top of President Biden’s inflation tax, which has raised prices by 19 percent since he took office. Noncommercial use of original content on is granted to AHA Institutional Members, their employees and State, Regional and Metro Hospital Associations unless otherwise indicated. AHA does not claim ownership of any content, including content incorporated by permission into AHA produced materials, created by any third party and cannot grant permission to use, distribute or otherwise reproduce such third party content.

The House Oversight Committee held a hearing on Wednesday on the origins of COVID-19 following a new report from the Energy Department that it had determined, with low confidence, that the novel coronavirus had escaped from a lab in China. While retaining the agenda of the former Committee on Government Operations, the new committee also took on the responsibilities of the former House Committee on the Post Office and Civil Service and the Committee on the District of Columbia. On January 4, 2007, the 110th Congress renamed it the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. For the 118th Congress, Republicans changed the name to "Committee on Oversight and Accountability, which is the current iteration. Since 2007, it has simply been called the "Oversight Committee" for short.

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Instead, they offered their professional opinions about the evidence previously uncovered by House Republicans, information from Hunter Biden’s criminal cases, and press reports. Rep. Katie Porter, a Democrat from California, needled what she said was hypocrisy by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, highlighting his past comments about whether a vote was needed to begin an impeachment inquiry. The records obtained by the committee have shown that during and after Joe Biden's tenure as vice president, Hunter Biden made millions of dollars through complex financial arrangements from private equity deals, legal fees and corporate consulting in Ukraine, China, Romania and elsewhere. Again, Republicans have not produced evidence that Joe Biden got paid in any of these arrangements. People should be open-minded about the evidence used in the Energy Department’s assessment, according to virologist Angela Rasmussen. But she said that without evaluating the classified report, she can’t assess if it’s persuasive enough to challenge the conclusion that the virus spread from an animal.

Fact check: Mace’s false claim about a supposed bribe

If the contempt referral against Hunter Biden passes the full House it would be yet another challenge for federal prosecutors already under heavy scrutiny for their handling of charges against him related to his taxes and gun use. One Republican Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina, insisted that Hunter Biden be quickly arrested. GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia called him a coward as he left during her remarks. Democratic lawmakers argued that Biden, who has refused to testify to the panel behind closed doors, should be allowed to speak publicly. Gough told NBC News that the Defense Department is "committed to timely and thorough reporting to Congress" on UAPs. Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., said last week that the committee’s hearing will aim to create the conditions for transparency, and that he expected the witnesses will "speak frankly to the public about their experiences."

The invited guests for the hearing include Devon Archer, Tony Bobulinski, and Jason Galanis. Hunter Biden, son of Joe Biden, was also invited but has said he will not attend the hearing, despite calling for a public hearing rather than a closed-door deposition with the committee. The House Oversight Committee is holding its second hearing as part of its impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden. The use of duplications of broadcast coverage of Committee events is governed by the rules of the U.S. Proceedings of the Committee, including any recording of such proceedings, may not be used for any political purpose or in any commercial advertisement, and may not be broadcast with commercial sponsorship except as part of a bona fide news program or public affairs documentary program. Shelving the contempt of Congress charges would likely further stoke conservative criticism that the Justice Department is politicized — especially given that two one-time advisers to former President Donald Trump were prosecuted for contempt of Congress by the Biden administration.

It’s the latest step for the inquiry, which began in September, but has so far failed to uncover evidence directly implicating the president in wrongdoing involving his son’s business dealings. Separately, Grusch, who said he led Defense Department efforts to analyze reported UAP sightings, accused the Pentagon of covering up a program that attempted to retrieve and reverse engineer UAPs, and claimed that the government has recovered "non-human biologics" from crashed UAPs. He did not cite any evidence to support these allegations, claiming that such information remains classified.

Unlike President Biden and his Democrat allies in Congress, Ways and Means Republicans will not sit idly by and allow Washington to take more out of the pockets of hardworking taxpayers – including the $7 trillion in tax hikes the President has repeatedly called for. While Republicans say their inquiry is ultimately focused on the president, they have taken particular interest in Hunter Biden and his overseas business dealings, questioning whether the president profited from that work. Further angering Republicans, Hunter Biden did come to the Capitol on the day specified by the subpoena — but not to testify. Capitol complex — a couple hundred feet away from the awaiting GOP investigators — and delivered a rare public statement defending his business affairs and castigating the yearslong investigations into him and his family. Lawmakers pushed the federal government to reveal more information on unidentified aerial phenomena, often called “UAPs” or “UFOs,” as three former military officials testified during a congressional hearing on Wednesday. We applaud your attention to this important issue that has touched nearly every part of the U.S. health care system, threatening both patient access to care and the financial stability of providers.

The committees’ votes Wednesday on contempt of Congress come a day before Hunter Biden is scheduled to make his first court appearance on tax charges filed by a special counsel in Los Angeles. He is facing three felony and six misdemeanor counts, including filing a false return, tax evasion, failure to file and failure to pay. Hunter Biden’s only remarks to reporters were when asked why he had his father on speaker phone several times during business meetings. The arrival of the president’s son at the Oversight Committee, which has been engaged in a yearlong probe, sitting in the audience with his legal team, including attorney Abbe Lowell, sent the panel into chaos. Committee Democrats stressed the importance of addressing stigmatization, discrimination, and violence based on race or national origin—especially against Chinese Americans—as we continue to counter the national security threat posed by the CCP. “We also know that Hunter Biden never held any sort of public office, and there is no evidence that he ever influenced any kind of policy in the White House,” Garcia said.