Pompeo refused to abide by the House of Representatives subpoena, the Democrats intend to accuse him of "contempt of Congress"

　　Chinanews.com, August 29. According to a report by the American Chinese website, on the 28th local time, the chairman of the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee and Democratic Rep. Engel (Eliot Engel) announced that Secretary of State Pompeo had "obviously abused departmental resources in politics." However, he refused to follow the committee’s subpoena, and a resolution will be drafted to determine that he despise Congress.

Data map: US Secretary of State Pompeo.

　　Engel is a New York State Democrat and has been in office for 16 years. Recently, he and Pompeo continued to have open disputes.

　　Engel said in a statement: "The two officially authorized subpoenas involved issues directly related to the U.S. foreign policy toward Ukraine. The Secretary of State has been ignoring this. This left the committee with no choice but to start drafting a resolution to identify Secretary of State Peng Peo despised Congress."

　　He added: “From Mr. Pompeo’s refusal to cooperate in the impeachment investigation, to his willingness to support the smearing of the president’s political opponents by the Republicans in the Senate, to his speech at the Republican National Convention, this violates his own principles and may even In violation of the law, he has shown an astonishing disregard for the laws and regulations governing himself and the tools provided by the Constitution to prevent government corruption."

　　According to reports, last month, Engel issued a subpoena to Pompeo asking him to provide "all records allegedly related to the Biden family and the Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings provided by the State Department to the Republican Senate Committee" and "the State Department On how to respond to internal communications from Congress".

　　At that time, a State Department spokesperson claimed that the State Department had cooperated with Engel's "legal investigation request" and accused him of "(transferring) the committee and its supervisory duties to misguided staff."

　　The subpoena required the State Council to submit documents by August 7, but the deadline has passed. The State Department told Engel in a letter on the 27th that the agency “categorically denied your baseless claim that the State Department’s submission of documents to the two Senate committees'appears to be a partisan abuse of resources', may have improper behavior or violated any legal".

　　Engel also issued a subpoena in September 2019 to ask for relevant records as part of the impeachment investigation of President Trump, but the State Department did not comply.