Subcommittee will come to order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess for the committee at any time, this subcommittee is convening a hearing on the document production efforts on the office of personnel management, the federal bureau of investigation, and the General Services administration in response to those committees and subcommittee document requests. I now recognize myself, for an Opening Statement. I want to thank the witnesses for being here, although i know there could be more comfortable hearings to attend. I regret we need to have this hearing. We are here because opm, the fbi, and gsa have not complied with the committees request for documents from several months ago. We witnessed a stunning lack of cooperation across the administration, in response to multiple congressional investigations. For this committee to performance important constitutional oversight mission, we must have documents and information requested from agencies. That, in turn, r
Welcome back to the hearing, i want to thank the witnesses for their patients, and i will now recognize myself for a second round of questioning. I want to go back to the question of the domestic emoluments clause Mister Borden, we talked about the foreign emoluments clause, which was an attempt to guarantee the undivided loyalty of the president , and all members of congress, to the American People, and not to foreign powers, that is why there was this absolute prohibition on payments of any kind whatever coming from Foreign Governments. That is why, we are very concerned to get as much information from the gsa about whatever you know and can find out about Foreign Governments using the trump hotel. For business because of the president s ongoing business interest in the trump hotel. The domestic emoluments clause limits salary and office. We cant increase it or reduce it but it also says that the president cannot receive any other payments from the u. S. Government, or from any of th