{"id":703983,"date":"2021-08-31T17:05:51","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T21:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=703983"},"modified":"2021-08-31T17:05:53","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T21:05:53","slug":"house-republican-demands-pelosi-reconvene-congress-for-hearings-on-bidens-botched-afghanistan-withdrawal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-republican-demands-pelosi-reconvene-congress-for-hearings-on-bidens-botched-afghanistan-withdrawal\/","title":{"rendered":"House Republican Demands Pelosi Reconvene Congress for Hearings on Biden\u2019s Botched Afghanistan Withdrawal"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhouse-republican-demands-pelosi-reconvene-congress-for-hearings-on-bidens-botched-afghanistan-withdrawal%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=703983&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1230050893_736x514.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Rep. Chip Roy (R., Texas) called on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) to reconvene Congress for hearings on President Joe Biden&#8217;s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Madam Speaker, you have a duty to call Congress back to Washington and begin hearings immediately,&#8221; Roy <a href=\"https:\/\/roy.house.gov\/sites\/roy.house.gov\/files\/Rep.%20Roy%20Afghanistan%20ltr%20to%20Pelosi%2008.31.21.pdf\">wrote<\/a>. &#8220;America does not run away. We do not leave our brothers and sisters behind. We do not aid and abet the enemy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pelosi has stalled efforts to apply congressional accountability to the Biden administration for its missteps in the withdrawal from Afghanistan. Democrats&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/house-dems-block-afghanistan-withdrawal-transparency-bill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/house-dems-block-afghanistan-withdrawal-transparency-bill\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1630527890402000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHWZncFVUSe77Ya3mkVixP-yZSlgw\">blocked<\/a>&nbsp;an oversight measure authored by Rep. Mike Gallagher (R., Wis.) on Tuesday, leaving questions unanswered for Republicans demanding transparency regarding the Afghan withdrawal. The House of Representatives has been out of session since July 30.<\/p>\n<p>Pelosi did not return a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>The Texas Republican also called for the resignation of both Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, as well as senior national security staff for &#8220;effectively abandon[ing]&#8221; military service members who risked their lives in Afghanistan during the U.S. withdrawal.<\/p>\n<p>Roy joins a growing chorus of Republicans and some Democrats who have expressed outrage over the Biden administration\u2019s handling of the Afghanistan crisis. As many as 200 U.S. citizens remain stranded in the country. The terrorist group has&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/biden-withdrawal-leaves-navy-vet-in-talibans-hands\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/biden-withdrawal-leaves-navy-vet-in-talibans-hands\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1630527890402000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFn8f9oC2JQSWQl8VBVPXHWwDfRFQ\">held<\/a>&nbsp;another American\u2014Navy veteran Mark Frerichs\u2014hostage for more than a year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We do know that the Taliban is now stronger than ever before; they now have access to the sensitive biometric database of our Afghan allies and now control billions of dollars\u2019 worth of U.S. military equipment,&#8221; Roy&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/roy.house.gov\/sites\/roy.house.gov\/files\/Rep.%20Roy%20Afghanistan%20ltr%20to%20Pelosi%2008.31.21.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/roy.house.gov\/sites\/roy.house.gov\/files\/Rep.%2520Roy%2520Afghanistan%2520ltr%2520to%2520Pelosi%252008.31.21.pdf&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1630527890402000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHgxlonw69D7ffQh4LPyBuuMzX4JA\">wrote<\/a>. &#8220;We know that 13 U.S. service members were killed in the process. \u2026 With an arbitrary and unnecessary deadline imposed by the commander-in-chief having come and gone, it is now time for a reckoning.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" readability=\"7.5\">\n<div readability=\"10\">\n<p>&#8220;The president made the morally indefensible decision to leave Americans behind,&#8221; Sen. Ben Sasse (R., Neb.) said. &#8220;Dishonor was the president\u2019s choice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Chip Roy (R., Texas) called on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) to reconvene Congress for hearings on President Joe Biden&#8217;s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan. &#8220;Madam Speaker, you have &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-703983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=703983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}