Senate Appropriations Democrats demand new hearing for Jeff Sessions

Published June 12, 2017 9:11pm ET



Two top Democrats on the Senate Appropriations Committee are asking the committee to reschedule a hearing with Attorney General Jeff Sessions so he can testify there.

Sessions was set to testify Tuesday, but “abruptly and unexpectedly” canceled to instead testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee. In a letter dated Monday, Sens. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., wrote to the committee and subcommittee chairmen asking for a new date to hear the embattled attorney general.

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