Did Congress read the Mueller report? More than a quarter of these key lawmakers won’t say.
,” arguing that the stark partisan divide over the findings was because “few members of Congress have read the report.”
Three out of the four Republican chairmen or ranking GOP members on the Judiciary and Intelligence committees did not respond when asked how they reviewed the report, while one senior Democratic senator said he has read the executive summaries but not the full report with redactions.
Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon took notes on her copy of the Mueller report. Scanlon and her office organized a marathon reading of the Mueller report in May. Sen. Christopher A. Coons of the Judiciary Committee did not read the entire report himself, according to spokesman Sean Colt, who said Coons “personally read the key portions of the redacted Mueller report and was briefed extensively by staff and legal experts on the full report.”
Rep. André Carson said he was briefed by senior staffers who read the report, but spokesman Copeland Tucker said they are “unable to speak about the internal proceedings and activities in the House Permanent Select Intelligence Committee.”
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