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6 Questions Congress May Ask Robert Mueller During His Testimony

In two separate hearings on Wednesday, Democrats want Americans who haven't read Mueller's findings to see and hear them instead. Republicans want to take the former special counsel down a peg.
Special counsel Robert Mueller arrives at the U.S. Capitol for closed meeting with lawmakers in June 2017. Mueller is back on Wednesday to testify before two House committees about his findings on election interference in 2016.

Former special counsel Robert Mueller is testifying before Congress on Wednesday, and lawmakers have so many questions they may not have enough time to ask them all.

The House judiciary and intelligence committees have scheduled hearings for 8:30 a.m. and noon.

Majority Democrats and minority Republicans are expected to try their utmost to get the most good they can from Mueller — in very different ways.

Members of Congress already postponed Mueller's hearings once to wrangle more time. Complicating the matter will be Mueller himself, who has said he intends to confine his testimony to what he has already set forth in his report.

In addition, on Monday night saying it expects Mueller to not stray beyond what

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