House Democrats have sent a letter to Vice President Mike Pence demanding documents related to Ukraine.
“The Committees are seeking the documents in the attached schedule in order to examine this sequence of events including the Administration’s attempts to press the Ukrainian President to open an investigation into former Vice President Biden or election interference in 2016,” Reps. Eliot Engel, Adam Schiff, and Elijah Cummings said in a Friday letter to Pence.
The three men head up the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and the House Committee on Oversight and Reform respectively.
The letter gives the vice president a deadline of October 15 to hand over the documents or the plan on issuing a subpoena.
The demand comes as it was revealed the the vice president’s national security adviser was on a July 25 call in which President Trump pressured the Ukrainian president to investigate Joe Biden. The call ended up sparking impeachment proceedings by House Democrats.
Democrats want documents related to the July 25 phone call from anyone who participated in it in addition to requesting communications between officials connected to the call and more documents of communications between Trump and the Ukrainian president.
They also demanded documents connected to a September 18 call Pence had with the Ukrainian president.
The White House has signaled it plans to not cooperate with any subpoenas until the House votes on whether to authorize impeachment proceedings.
