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“ Democrats haven’t even been sworn in yet, and they’re already coming after corporate America. Two days after last week’s election, Democrat Sen. Richard Blumenthal sent dozens of letters to companies that donated to President Trump’s White House ballroom project. The list includes Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft, BlackRock and Coinbase. Blumenthal is set to chair the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. He gave the companies until Jan. 4, the first full day of the new Congress, to produce records. Missing that deadline, he warned, would leave him “no choice but to consider alternative measures to obtain compliance.” The House Judiciary Committee is also looking into the Live Nation antitrust settlement. And the committee’s incoming chair, Jamie Raskin, says he’s ready to subpoena the law firms that cut pro bono deals with the White House. Such investigations come after strong voter mandate. Exit polls showed that anger over affordability and corruption drove voters to hand Democrats both chambers. But companies saw this coming. Many have spent months hiring congressional-investigations lawyers and running “wargame” simulations to map their exposure.”. From Adam Kinzinger newsletter