A Republican-led US congressional committee has recommended that Secretary of State Antony Blinken be held in contempt of Congress for failing to comply with a subpoena demanding information about the US withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021.
The House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee voted 26 to 25 in favor of a report recommending that the full House find Blinken in contempt after he failed to appear at a recusal hearing Tuesday morning.
Blinken, who is in New York for the U.N. General Assembly, said Sunday in a letter to the committee chairman, Republican Rep. Michael McCaul, said he had tried to arrange when he could testify and offered alternative witnesses.
McCaul said before the vote that Blinken declined to speak at any time this month. "I offered any day in September, just a few hours in September. The Secretary has not found one day, not one hour, to appear before the Congress of the United States," McCaul said.
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