DeVos' use of personal email as secretary probed by House Democrats
House Oversight Chairman Elijah Cummings said Monday that he is expanding an investigation into the use of personal email by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.
Cummings told DeVos in a letter that his move came after "disturbing new revelations" released by the Education Department's inspector general in May about how DeVos had used personal email while on the job.
“New information has now come to light indicating that you and other Department officials violated the Department’s prohibition on using personal email accounts to conduct official business, violated the requirement in the Federal Records Act to forward these emails to your official account within 20 days, and violated the requirement in the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to produce relevant records in response to public requests,” wrote Cummings (D-Md.).
Cummings told DeVos the new information indicates that she "withheld from the Committee information it has been seeking on a bipartisan basis over the past two years.” He also sought new related documents by July 29.
In response, Liz Hill, a department spokesperson, said the letter was "nothing more than political grandstanding."
"The IG has already done a thorough report on this issue. There is nothing to see here," Hill said in an email. CONTINUE READING: DeVos' use of personal email as secretary probed by House Democrats - POLITICO