U.S. Attorney General William Barr will appear before a U.S. congressional panel on Tuesday for the first time since Special Counsel Robert Mueller completed his report into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
The hearing before a House of Representatives appropriations subcommittee is meant to explore the Trump administration's $29 billion fiscal 2020 budget request for the Justice Department, but Barr is likely to face questions about Mueller's final report and when a redacted version will be delivered to Congress.
On March 24, Barr released a four-page letter to Congress laying out what he said were Mueller's main findings. Barr is expected to submit a redacted copy of the full report to the public and Congress by mid-April, or even sooner.They have said they want to review the underlying evidence after Barr in his letter said that Mueller's investigation did not establish collusion with Russia.
The New York Times and the Washington Post have since reported that some investigators on Mueller's team were unhappy with the way Barr described their findings. Last week, Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee prepared subpoenas that they plan to issue to the Justice Department if Barr does not agree to release the Mueller report in full.
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