House Republicans deleted a reference to an FBI informant once central to their impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden after the person was indicted by the Justice Department last week for making false statements. 

In an interview request sent to former State Department official Amos Hochstein on Tuesday, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) and Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) initially referenced previous testimony from discredited FBI informant Alexander Smirnov. However, that information was later omitted, and the letter was sent a second time, according to copies reviewed by the Washington Examiner.