Blinken has testified about Afghanistan 14 times, including four times before the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken attends a joint press conference with Egypt's Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty, not pictured, in Tahrir Palace in Cairo, Egypt Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2024. , R-Texas, said that he was “profoundly disappointed” in the chairman’s decision to advance contempt proceedings and urged him to find a resolution in “good faith.
McCaul said the department was being “disingenuous” because it had declined repeated requests to pick a date in September for Blinken to testify. “If we are forced to hold Secretary Blinken in contempt of Congress, he has no one to blame but himself,” he said in a statement last week. Miller said Blinken was willing to testify again if a mutually convenient time could be arranged but noted that Congress will be in recess from the end of this week until after the November election.
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