GOP Rep. Jim Jordan is still fuming about Michael Cohen's testimony

Jim Jordan.
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The House Oversight Committee gathered on Tuesday to vote on issuing subpoenas related to leaks about White House security clearances, as well as the committee's investigation into the addition of a citizenship question to the U.S. census. And Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) was not pleased, to say the least, about how the committee has handled things recently.

Jordan began by expressing his displeasure that Committee Chair Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) interviewed Tricia Newbold, the White House staffer who leaked information about the security clearances. Cummings interviewed Newbold on March 23, a Saturday when Congress was not in session — Jordan was particularly miffed that Cummings did not alert Republican lawmakers about the interview until the day before. He also said Cummings "cherry picked" information from the questioning in a "partisan attack" on the White House.

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Tim O'Donnell

Tim is a staff writer at The Week and has contributed to Bedford and Bowery and The New York Transatlantic. He is a graduate of Occidental College and NYU's journalism school. Tim enjoys writing about baseball, Europe, and extinct megafauna. He lives in New York City.