CONGRESS/EPA/SCOTT PRUITT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The Republican head of the U.S. House of Representative’s oversight committee told Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt on Wednesday [4-11-18] his agency has not provided requested documents about expensive air travel, including documents related to any threats that had been made on Pruitt. Representative Trey Gowdy, the oversight committee chairman, said in a letter to Pruitt that the EPA had not produced documents showing whether there was an individual waiver or authorization for purchasing first- or business-class air tickets. A copy of the letter was seen by Reuters. Gowdy also said in the letter he had not received documents that referred to ‘specific, ongoing threats associated with the Administrator’s air travel,’ which the agency had said were the basis for obtaining Pruitt’s first-class air tickets in a letter to Gowdy from EPA Associate Administrator Troy Lyons, dated March 20. Gowdy said in Wednesday’s letter that the EPA had shared some documents, some of which were shared in private, but did not say what they concerned.”
–Timothy Gardner, “House oversight panel asks EPA for travel, condo documents,” Reuters, April 11, 2018 2:12 pm