Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings said that documents the agencies had turned over were insufficient and didn't answer any of the committee's questions.
Two Republicans -- Justin Amash of Michigan and Chip Roy of Texas -- voted with Democrats to compel the administration to hand over the documents.
Top Republicans on the committee decried the subpoenas as hasty, arguing that Cummings had only requested the documents as chairman three weeks prior and had already received hundreds of pages of documents that demonstrated the agencies were cooperating in good faith.
"You didn't want to lay the groundwork. You just wanted to be first," Rep. Jim Jordan, the top Republican of the Oversight Committee accused Cummings. "The subpoenas you are pushing for today, I think are premature."
Cummings argued that the requests for information in the subpoenas were identical to a bipartisan request that the committee made in the summer of July 2018 and therefore were not hastily composed.
"Time is of the essence," Cummings said.
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