Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross testifies during the House Oversight Committee hearing on on March 14, 2019. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
WASHINGTON (CN) Following repeated refusals to hand over critical documents that could illuminate errors in the 2020 U.S. census, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross was subpoenaed Thursday by House lawmakers.
“Your approach to Congress’ oversight responsibilities has been abominable,” Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, a New York Democrat who chairs the House Oversight Committee, wrote in a Thursday letter to Ross. “You have repeatedly withheld documents that should have been produced as a matter of course to your Department’s oversight committee. You have withheld them not only from Congress, but from the independent Government Accountability Office and, according to Census Bureau officials, the federal Judiciary as well.”
This president realized that we had a trade system that has gone off the rails, that needed to be reset both in terms of what our objectives are, but also in terms of realizing that we have to deal with China as the biggest growing economy in the world and a very different system, he said during a dialogue held virtually.
His comments followed that of Commerce Secretary
Wilbur Ross, who said Tuesday at the same summit, that China remains the principal military and economic threat in Asia.
Lighthizer, known to be a China skeptic, said Chinese industrial policies have hurt the U.S. and other economies. He reiterated common complaints about China s practices, such as subsidizing state-owned companies and forced transfer of technology from foreign firms to their Chinese partners.
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