Ethics officers cleared acting Interior Secretary David Bernhardt from conflict of interest allegations involving California water.
In response to a request from the House Natural Resources Committee the department sent almost 7,000 pages of documents related to Bernhardt's meetings and daily schedules. In a previous letter Bernhardt declined to provide any documents, saying "I have not personally maintained a calendar for years, and I have no intention of suddenly doing so now."
The details of his schedule have been under scrutiny as Democrats on the Hill and advocacy groups seek to determine if Bernhardt has violated any ethics recusals by meeting with or working to benefit groups he has lobbied or worked for before being appointed to Interior in 2017. Oversight Chairman Elijah Cummings questioned a department official on whether Bernhardt's calendars were being deleted in a hearing on the department's records policies earlier this month.
"Mr. Bernhardt is a former lobbyist for multiple industries, oil, gas and those companies fortunes, they rise and fall with decisions that are made at Interior. So as somebody who wants to lead this agency, he has a responsibility to provide all the documents that are being asked," Grijalva told ABC News.
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