House Oversight Committee calls upon Biden aides to testify
The Oversight Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives is calling upon multiple members of former President Joe Biden's administration to testify before Congress.
This, according to the Washington Examiner, includes a request for former White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre to testify.
It remains to be seen whether or not any of these individuals will agree to do so.
🚨 KARINE JEAN-PIERRE CALLED TO TESTIFY in Biden cover-up!
Chairman Comer (@RepJamesComer) demands interviews with KJP, Zients, Sams & Bates over Biden's MENTAL DECLINE scandal and shady AUTOPEN SCHEME.
The cover-up is unraveling. The truth WILL come out. 👇🏻 pic.twitter.com/Kvsrv9NNRO
— Oversight Committee (@GOPoversight) June 27, 2025
Here's what's going on:
The request comes from House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY).
He released a statement, saying:
As we aggressively investigate the cover-up of Joe Biden’s decline and the unauthorized use of the autopen, I’m now demanding more former Biden staffers come before Congress: Karine Jean-Pierre Ian Sams Andrew Bates Jeff Zients Americans deserve answers.
The Examiner reports, "The chairman will send four more letters to Jean-Pierre, former Biden communication aides Ian Sams and Andrew Bates, and former chief of staff Jeff Zients, requesting their appearance before the committee’s majority and minority counsel for closed-door, transcribed interviews."
Whether any of these individuals will actually testify remains to be seen. Not one of them has responded to the letters at the time of this writing.
We have, however, already gotten some significant testimony on the issue of Biden's health cover-up.
"I was unaware"
That testimony came from Neera Tanden, one of Biden's former top aides. She revealed that she was authorized to direct autopen signatures, Fox News reports.
Per the outlet:
During Tanden's interview before Congress, which lasted more than five hours, she told lawmakers that, in her role as staff secretary and senior advisor to the former president between 2021 and 2023, she was authorized to direct autopen signatures on behalf of Biden, an Oversight Committee official told Fox News.
This does not really get to the heart of the matter, though.
Fox goes on to report:
Tanden reportedly testified that to get approval for the use of autopen signatures she would send decision memos to members of Biden's inner circle. However, she added that she was not aware of what actions or approvals took place between the time she sent the decision memo and the time she received it back with the necessary approval, according to the source familiar.
This leaves open the question of who exactly was signing those executive orders and thus who exactly was running the country. These are the questions that Comer is trying to get answered.