The Interior Department has dragged its feet in responding to congressional inquiries, Republican members of the House Natural Resources Committee charged Thursday.
Calling them “shameful and unacceptable,” the 22 GOP lawmakers declared that there was “no justifiable reason” for delays that in some cases have stretched on for months.
GOP lawmakers declared
In a letter to both Interior and the Office of Management and Budget, the committee members asked that all pending responses to the “questions for the record” be handed over by March 1.
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“The alarming disregard for the American public’s right to the timely presentation of the full scope of the hearing is not acceptable,” wrote Chair Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) and his colleagues.
