NEW: The White House has told lawmakers that it will only allow key officials to testify before committees meeting in-person -- an apparent dismissal of the House's new remote hearing system
"By permitting proxy voting, remote hearings, and virtual depositions, the Speaker and the House majority demonstrated they are not serious about doing the job that the American people sent them to Washington to do," the White House said in an email to congressional officials obtained by ABC News."Nevertheless, the Administration is serious about and committed to its mission to lead and execute the laws.
The notice said that no cabinet-level senior administration official, member of the coronavirus task force or the administration's coronavirus vaccine initiative is permitted to accept hearing invitations without approval from White House chief of staff Mark Meadows. MORE: 'The American public doesn't know that we're getting those answers': How Congress is handling oversight during the coronavirus crisis
The White House argued that the hearing was"counter-productive" and distracted from the coronavirus response, but allowed Fauci and other top health officials to appear virtually before a Senate panel for a hearing on reopening the economy.
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