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**Newly Empowered, Democrats Demand Ajit Pai Stop Withholding Documents**

A few months after Trump’s inauguration, an attorney appointed by the president to a top post at the Justice Department produced a memo in which he outlined the administration’s views on congressional oversight. The memo stated simply that, because Democrats were in the minority, they had no legal authority to conduct oversight of, or demand documents from, agencies such as the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)—at least, not without the express consent of their Republican counterparts.

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