Senate Subpoenas Firm with Suspected Ties to Hunter Biden
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On Wednesday, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee voted along party lines to subpoena documents and depositions from Blue Star Strategies, a consulting company that worked with the Ukrainian energy company Burisma when Hunter Biden served on its board. While left-leaning articles highlight that this is Chairman Ron Johnson’s first authorized subpoena regarding the investigation into Burisma and Hunter Biden, right-leaning articles highlight that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi accused Republicans of “political retribution.”
A left-leaning article by CNN highlights that this is the first subpoena authorized in Johnson’s investigation into Burisma and Hunter Biden that ramped up following the end of the impeachment trial. The article also notes that Blue Star's CEO, Karen Tramontano, wrote a letter to the committee on Wednesday stating that the firm had provided answers to the committee in December 2019 and twice this week.
A centrist article by NPR reports that a bipartisan group of panel members suggested that Johnson issue the subpoena. The article notes that Democrats on the committee said Republicans were chasing conspiracy theories by using their power to investigate the Biden family instead of the government response to the coronavirus pandemic.
Fox News published a right-leaning article reporting that Pelosi accused Republicans of “political retribution” and blasted Republicans on the Committee for the move to subpoena Blue Star Strategies, claiming it was “intended to help the president keep his job.” Meanwhile, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell responded with the statement that, “House Democrats would rather spend a fourth consecutive year trying to cram their politics into the legal system than actually govern the country in a pandemic.”