"For months, we haven't been able to get answers on the Afghanistan peace plan, and now the president is saying the plan is dead," Representative Eliot Engel, Democrat chairman of the committee, said in a statement. Engel said the State Department had ignored requests from the committee to arrange briefings with Khalilzad in February and April, as ...
"For months, we haven't been able to get answers on the Afghanistan peace plan, and now the president is saying the plan is dead," Representative Eliot Engel, Democrat chairman of the committee, said in a statement. Engel said the State Department had ignored requests from the committee to arrange briefings with Khalilzad in February and April, as well as at other times during the year.
"We need to hear directly from the administration's point person on Afghanistan to understand how this process went off the rails," Engel said.
Engel said Khalilzad's refusal to appear before the committee appears to be part of a wider pattern of stonewalling of the Democrat-led committees in the House.
"We are not going to just sit back and be quiet. We will make a lot of noise about it," Engel had told reporters earlier in the week.
The subpoena demands Khalilzad appear before the committee on the morning of September 19.
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