Jordan Announces Timeline For Ongoing Biden Impeachment Inquiry

The GOP-led House is continuous its impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, and one of many Republican lawmakers main the trouble introduced a timeline final week for when it might transfer ahead.

The Ohio Republican stated a call on whether or not to proceed will most certainly be made shortly after the primary of the yr, in accordance with Newsweek.

“The House Oversight Committee is currently conducting an inquiry into the Biden family after then-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, a Republican from California, announced the investigation in early September,” the outlet reported.

“At the center of the Biden impeachment inquiry is his alleged involvement in his son Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings. The White House has repeatedly denied that the president ever had any involvement in his son’s business,” the outlet continued.

Jordan, who can be a member of the House Oversight Committee, revealed to Fox News host Maria Bartiromo final week how he sees the impeachment timeline taking part in out.

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“I believe that we will get the depositions and the interviews done in this calendar year and then make a decision early next year whether there are actual — the evidence warrants going through articles of impeachment and moving to that stage of the investigation,” he stated.

“We have a constitutional duty to do oversight. We’re now in the impeachment inquiry phase of our oversight duty. We’re driven by the facts. We’re driven by the evidence. Not by the politics like the Democrats are when they attacked President Trump,” Jordan added.

Also final week, Jordan sent a subpoena to the Bank of America as his panel continues its investigation into how monetary establishments handled buyer info in relation to the riot on the U.S. Capitol Building on Jan. 6, 2021.

Jordan despatched a letter to financial institution CEO Brian Moynihan wherein he said that the establishment had didn’t voluntarily present his committee with requested paperwork relating to questions on what info was shared with the FBI following the riot.

“On May 25, 2023, we requested your voluntary cooperation with our oversight efforts to determine the extent to which financial institutions, such as Bank of America Corporation (BoA), worked with the FBI to collect Americans’ data. In response, the Committee has received 223 pages of documents responsive to our original requests. However, to date, BoA has refused to provide the Committee and Select Subcommittee with the filing it turned over to the FBI,” the letter stated, according to the Washington Examiner.

Jordan stated he was involved about info the financial institution offered to the FBI “voluntarily and without any legal process,” including if the financial institution had “lawful authority” to take action, then Congress should “consider reforms that adequately protect Americans’ information.”

“Indeed, if such a lawful authority exists, as BoA asserts, for BoA to freely share private financial information without any legal process or specific nexus to criminality, Congress has a responsibility to consider reforms that adequately protect Americans’ information,” the letter stated. “It should not be the case that federal law enforcement has carte blanche access to Americans’ financial information by deeming a transaction or class of transactions as ‘suspicious’ or otherwise.”

It added: “For that reason, to inform such legislation, it is critical that the Committee understand the full extent of the information-sharing between BoA and the FBI, including review of BoA’s ‘filing’ that it emailed to the FBI.”

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The investigation into Bank of America by the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, of which Jordan can be chairman, was opened in May, with the panel initially giving the financial institution a June 8 deadline to offer the requested paperwork. The inquiry is considered one of a number of investigations associated to the federal government’s dealing with of the Capitol riot by House Republicans.