A senior Democratic senator on Tuesday asked a U.S. government watchdog to asses...
WASHINGTON - A senior Democratic senator on Tuesday asked a U.S. government watchdog to assess Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s compliance with a law barring federal workers from engaging in political activities while acting in their official capacities.
Senator Bob Menendez, the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, cited three official visits Pompeo has made since March to his home state of Kansas in requesting the review by the U.S. Office of Special Counsel. News reports have said Pompeo, a former Republican congressman who headed the CIA for just over a year before his current post, is mulling a U.S. Senate run. He has declined to rule one out while saying that he would serve in his post as long as President Donald Trump wanted him.
Menendez also cited a Wall Street Journal report that Pompeo discussed during the visit a U.S. Senate run with Charles Koch, a conservative billionaire industrialist who was a top contributor to Pompeo’s campaigns for the House of Representatives seat he held from 2011 to 2017.
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