CHUCK GRASSLEV IOWA. CHAIRMAN MIKE CRAPO. IDAHO RON WYDEN. OREGON PAT ROBERTS, KANSAS DEBBIE MICHIGAN MICHAEL B. ENZI. WYOMING MARIA CANTWELL, WASHINGTON JOHN CORNYN, TEXAS ROBERT MENENDEZ. JERSEY JOHN THUNE, SOUTH DAKOTA THOMAS R. CARPER, DELAWARE RICHARD BURH. NORTH CAROLINA BENJAMIN CARDIN. MARVLAND ROB PORTMAN, OHIO SHERROO BROWN. OHIO PATRICK TDOMEY. MICHAEL BENNET. COLORADO TIM SCOTT. SOUTH CAROLINA ROBERT CASEY, JR., BILL CASSIDY, LOUISIANA MARI: VIRGINIA COMMITTEE ON FINANCE JAMES LANKFORO. OKLAHOMA SHELDON WHITEHOUSE, RHODE ISLAND STEVE DAINES. MONTANA MAGGIE HASSAN, HAMPSHIRE TODD YOUNG. INDIANA CATHERINE MASTO, NEVADA WASHINGTON, DC 20510-6200 BEN SASSE. NEBRASKA KOLAN DAVIS. STAFF DIRECTOR AND CHIEF COUNSEL JOSHUA SHEINKMAN, DEMOCRATIC STAFF DIRECTOR May 06, 2020 The Honorable Michael Pompeo Secretary United States Department of State 2201 Street, NW Washington, DC 20520 Dear Secretary Pompeo: On February 11, 2020, I wrote to you requesting additional information concerning investigations being conducted by the Chairmen of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and the Senate Finance Committee (together the ?Senate Committees?). As I noted in that letter, I am concerned that in the absence of additional State Department records, the Senate Committees risk acting on an incomplete and politically biased record of the Department?s activities related to Ukraine. On February 20, 2020 the State Department voluntarily produced over 3000 pages of documents to the Senate Committees addressing only the requests made by Chairman Johnson and Chairman Grassley. On April 8, 2020, the Department produced over 1000 additional pages. Although the requests made by the Republican Chairmen were not restricted by date, my staff?s review of these documents indicates that the State Department limited its response exclusively to documents from the Obama Administration and excluded any responsive documents generated during the Trump Administration. The State Department has also not produced any of the materials I requested in my February 11, 2020 letter. Since the State Department?s initial production, the United States has become embroiled in a devastating global pandemic. To date over 70,000 Americans have died from COVID-19 While over 1 million have been infected. The pandemic has disrupted the lives of nearly every American and over 30 million Americans ?nd themselves unemployed. The pandemic has also limited the operations of the State Department, and some services are only available for Americans ?with a quali?ed life-or-death emergency.?1 1 Despite the coronavirus?s ongoing disruption to State Department operations and everyday American life, the State Department has continued to voluntarily produce documents requested by the Republican Senate Committee Chairmen. During this time the National Archives has also been voluntarily producing documents requested by the Republican Chairman. The Archives has produced over 8500 pages of records from the Obama White House, including voluminous spreadsheets and guest lists from of?cial White House events, all while the agency?s normal operations are curtailed due to the pandemic.2 Furthermore on May 1, 2020, the Chairmen sent a new letter requesting additional records from the State Department, as well as interviews with three senior State Department of?cials and one other staffer. They asked the State Department to respond to this request by May 14, 2020. As I noted above, the State Department still has not produced any of the materials I requested in my February 11, 2020 letter, nor communicated with my of?ce in any way about the request. It is wholly inappropriate for the State Department to dedicate its limited resources to voluntarily complying with Republican requests without also making a good faith effort to respond to Democratic requests. Accordingly, and in light of the chairmen?s latest request, I am renewing my request that any production to the Senate Committees include additional records related to Ukraine activities and policy under both Democrat and Republican administrations. To that end, please provide the following information, as originally requested by me on February ll, 2020, including, but not limited to any records generated after January 20, 2017: 1. All State Department records related to Rudy Guiliani, Lev Parnas, Igor ruman, Dmitry Firtash, Paul Manafort, Rick Gates, Aleksander Kwasniewski, Cofer Black, Andrii Telizhenko, Serhiy Leshchenko, Mykola Zlochevsky, Oleksandr Kostiantyn Kulyk, Viktor Shokin, and Yuriy Lutsenko. 2. When the Ukrainian Parliament voted overwhelmingly to remove Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin, the decision was welcomed by the international community, and the United States? policy toward Shokin was ?widely understood internationally to be the right policy.?3 Furthermore, this policy had bipartisan support in Congress.4 Please provide any records related to support by Congress and the international community for the removal of Shokin, including, but not limited to, any such documents related to the Congressional Ukraine Caucus, European Union, International Monetary Fund, or the World Bank. 2 3 1.2591190; ousts?top?prosecutor.html. 4 3. Speaking to reporters at the White House on October 3, 2019, President Trump told reporters ?China should start an investigation into the Bidens because what happened in China is just about as bad as what happened with Ukraine,? referencing the unsubstantiated allegations of wrongdoing by Vice President and Hunter Biden in Ukraine. Several days later, Michael Pillsbury, an informal White House adviser on China, told the Financial Times that he had gotten ?quite a bit of background on Hunter Biden from the Chinese? on a recent visit to Beijing. Please provide any State Department records relating to or referencing Hunter Biden?s activities in China, including, in particular, any records generated as part of on? going trade negotiations with China. 4. The requests made in the Senate Committees? original letter are not restricted by date and a complete response therefore should include records created during the current administration. However, for the avoidance of doubt, I am speci?cally requesting any records relevant to the individuals and companies identi?ed in the Senate Committees? requests generated after January 20, 2017. Please respond to these requests concurrently or before responding to the chairmen?s May 1 request for additional documents. Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter. Sincerely, kw Ron Wyden Ranking Member