House Oversight chair vows to pursue the Comey memo: 'I have my subpoena pen ready'

Jason Chaffetz.
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House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) has been criticized for literally giving up during the Trump presidency. But after The New York Times broke the news that former FBI Director James Comey reportedly wrote a memo detailing how President Trump pressured him to quash the investigation into Michael Flynn, it looks like Chaffetz is back and ready for some investigating.

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Nico Lauricella

Nico Lauricella was editor-in-chief at TheWeek.com. He was formerly the site's deputy editor and an editor at The Huffington Post.