Tuesday 20 September 2022 10:38 PM Democrats BLOCK Republican bid to get access to Hunter Biden documents trends now
Democrats on the House Oversight Committee quashed a Republican effort Tuesday to advance a resolution that asked President Joe Biden to send documents related to his son Hunter's business dealings to the House of Representatives.
In a vote 23-19, Democrats voted to oppose Resolution 1243, which asked Biden to send within 14 days of passage 'copies of any document, record, report, memo, correspondence or other communication in his possession' that related to 'the Biden family's international business schemes.'
'It is time for President Biden to answer some questions about his participation in his family's business schemes with some of our most signficant adversaries for years,' said Rep. James Comer, the Oversight top Republican, during a mark-up hearing Tuesday.
With Comer's party in the minority, the GOP members didn't have enough votes to move the resolution on.
There's no further action Republicans can take currently, without winning back a majority in the House.
'The American people deserve transparency about the Biden family’s suspicious foreign business deals, but Democrats today voted to conceal this information from them,' Comer said in a statement after the vote.
House Oversight Committee Chair Carolyn Maloney (left) and Democrats quashed a GOP effort Tuesday, led by Rep. James Comer (right), to advance a resolution that asked President Joe Biden to send documents related to his son Hunter's business dealings to the House
House Resolution 1243 asked President Joe Biden to send documents related to Hunter Biden's (pictured) business dealings over to the House of Representatives within 14 days of passage. The resolution did not make it out of the Oversight committee during a vote Tuesday
The resolution specifically names not only Hunter Biden, but the president's brother
