Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Saturday that he will not appear before open congressional appropriations subcommittee hearings this week and will send his deputy instead. (Susan Walsh/AP)Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who had agreed to testify this week before the Senate and House appropriations committees about the Justice Department budget, wrote the chairmen of the committees Saturday and said he was sending his deputy to testify instead. Sessions was scheduled to testify before Congress on Tuesday for the first time since he was confirmed as attorney general in February. Sessions wrote to the two chairmen that he would testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday instead. Sessions said he was “pleased to accept” the invitation to appear before members of the Senate Select Committee on Tuesday.

Source: Washington Post June 10, 2017 23:10 UTC