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Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer, listens as he finishes a day of testimony to the House Oversight and Reform Committee, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Cohen says Trump inflated his wealth in bid to buy Bills

By JIM MUSTIAN and BERNARD CONDON and JOHN WAWROW - Associated Press

CORRECTS THE POSITION OF PERROTTA TO LEFT, NOT SECOND LEFT - FILE - In this April 19, 2017, file photo, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt speaks at a news conference with Pasquale &quot;Nino&quot; Perrotta, left, in East Chicago, Ind. Pruitt is announcing the departure of two top aides amid ethics investigations at the agency. Pruitt says his security chief, Pasquale &quot;Nino&quot; Perrotta, was retiring. He gave no cause, but Pruitt's spending on security at the EPA is the subject of ongoing federal investigations. Pruitt also announced the departure of Albert Kelly, a former Oklahoma banker in charge of the toxic waste cleanups. (AP Photo/Teresa Crawford, File)

EPA security chief, Superfund head leave amid ethics probes

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER - Associated Press

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, speaks at Capitol Hill in Washington in this Dec. 17, 2015, file photo, Chaffetz says he will resign from Congress. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Chaffetz to resign, raising doubts about Trump probe

By MICHELLE L. PRICE and BRADY McCOMBS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 1, 2017 file photo, then-National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, joined by K.T. McFarland, deputy national security adviser, watches the daily news briefing at the White House in Washington. Documents released by lawmakers show Flynn, now former national security adviser, was warned when he retired from the military in 2014 not to take foreign money without "advance approval" by Pentagon authorities. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Michael Flynn warned about foreign payments in 2014, congressional probe says

By Dan Boylan and Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

FILE - In this April 8, 2008 file photo, Heather Bresch, chief operating officer of Mylan Pharmacueticals, sits in her office in Canonsburg, Pa. Bresch will face lawmakers' questions at a hearing next week on steep price hikes for the company's life-saving EpiPen injector device. (AP Photo/Dale Sparks, File)

House panel: Mylan CEO minimized EpiPen profits in testimony

By MATTHEW DALY - Associated Press

Former Turing Pharmaceuticals CEO Martin Shkreli, center, leaves court with his lawyer Benjamin Brafman, left, Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2016, in New York. Shkreli, who has become the poster child of pharmaceutical-industry greed after hiking the price of an anti-infection drug by more than 5,000 percent, is scheduled to appear at a congressional hearing on Thursday. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Martin Shkreli, ‘pharma bro,’ rebuffs Congress through silence

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Reps. Elijah Cummings (left), Maryland Democrat, and Jason Chaffetz, Utah Republican, talk Sept. 30 before Secret Service Director Julia Pierson, former Secret Service Director W. Ralph Basham and former Assistant Homeland Security Secretary for Infrastructure Protection Todd Keil testify in front of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Capitol Hill about a recent White House perimeter breach. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

Rep. Cummings: ‘Something is awfully wrong’ with the Secret Service

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif. listens to testimony regarding social security and disability benefits, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 10, 2014. Four Social Security judges are facing accusations they rubber-stamped claims for disability benefits, approving billions of dollars in payments from the cash-strapped program. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

House panel probes problems at chemical safety board

By Phillip Swarts - The Washington Times

FILE - In this May 22, 2013, file photo, then-IRS official Lois Lerner is sworn in on Capitol Hill in Washington, before the House Oversight Committee hearing to investigate the extra scrutiny IRS gave to tea party and other conservative groups that applied for tax-exempt status. The House is preparing to vote May 7, on holding Lerner in contempt of Congress for refusing to testify at a pair of committee hearings about her role in the agency's tea party controversy. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

House votes to hold ex-IRS official in contempt

By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER - Associated Press

** FILE ** Rep. Elijah Cummings, Maryland Democrat. (Associated Press)

IRS employees deny tea party bias

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Ex-agency head: I won’t testify before lawmakers

By ERIKA NIEDOWSKI - Associated Press

MacBeth wants subpoenas for 38 Studios testimony

By ERIKA NIEDOWSKI - Associated Press

Cummings says Issa apologized and he accepts

By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER - Associated Press

Former IRS official refuses to testify at hearing

By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER - Associated Press

The attorney for former Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner says his client will continue to assert her rights not to testify about the IRS targeting of conservative groups. (Associated Press)

Lawyer for IRS official denies Issa claim client will testify

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

Illustration Libya by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: Obama’s deadly oversight

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES - The Washington Times