House Judiciary Chair Jerry Nadler demands Mueller testify in Congress in the next month

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House Judiciary Chair Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) is already unsatisfied.

Attorney General William Barr delivered a press conference Thursday ahead of releasing a redacted version of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report. He finished about an hour before Congress was expected to receive the report, yet Nadler still sent a letter to Mueller right as Barr wrapped, asking the special counsel to testify before his Judiciary Committee. Nadler had apparently made this same request in the past, he noted in his letter, and is now asking Mueller to appear "no later than May 23."

Nadler had already called on Barr to postpone his press conference until after the public saw the report, and his committee approved a subpoena to receive the full, unredacted report earlier this month.

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Kathryn is a graduate of Syracuse University, with degrees in magazine journalism and information technology, along with hours to earn another degree after working at SU's independent paper The Daily Orange. She's currently recovering from a horse addiction while living in New York City, and likes to share her extremely dry sense of humor on Twitter.