rodham's company and in 2013 i wrote to mr. mayorkas five letters about his management of the aeb five program and in those letters i asked him detailed questions in order to get his side of the story and when he did not answer my initial questions i wrote him repeatedly to follow-up. at this point it has been more than seven years and i still have not received answers to more than 25 specific questions that i asked during that 2013 investigation. following his nomination to serve as department of homeland security secretary i wrote to mr. mayorkas again on january 15 to raise my concerns and to provide him yet another opportunity to answer my questions. he sent me a short response on january 9 that can you believe this? it still failed to answer most of the questions that i was trying to get answers for it was very important for nominees confirmed by this body to be responsive to congressional oversight requests. mr. mayorkas consistently refused to respond my questions and that should concern all of us in the united states se

rodham's company. in 2013, i wrote to mr. mayorkas five letters about his management of the eb-5 program. in those letters i asked him detailed questions in order to get his side of the story. and when he didn't answer my initial questions, i wrote him repeatedly to follow up. at this point it's been more than seven years, and i still have not received answers to more than 25 specific questions that i asked during that 2013 investigation. following his nomination to serve as department of homeland security secretary, i wrote to mr. mayorkas again on january 15 to raise my concerns and to provide him yet another opportunity to answer my questions. he sent me a very short response on january 19 that -- can you believe this -- still failed to answer most of the questions that i was trying to get answers for. it's very important for nominees confirmed by this body to be responsive to congressional oversight requests. mr. mayorkas consistently refused to respond to my questions, and that should concern all of us in the united stat

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