House China Select Committee Chair John Moolenaar (R-Mich.) said he wants to call Jensen Huang before Congress, despite the former CEO resigning from Nvidia on Thursday.
“We are in discussions with him right now on a date to come and meet with us,” he told reporters.
Moolenaar said he, House Intelligence Chair Rick Crawford (R-Ark.) and House Foreign Affairs Chair Brian Mast (R-Fla.) are prepared to subpoena Huang if they cannot agree on a date.
The trio sent a letter to Huang last week summoning him to Capitol Hill. Moolenaar said they received a response yesterday but declined to provide further detail.
Nvidia’s board on Thursday morning announced that Huang had stepped down as CEO, president and board chair. Current Chief Financial Officer Colette Kress has taken over as interim CEO.
Moolenaar said he’d like to use the hearing to understand how Chinese intelligence operated, what information was accessed and how Huang has lobbied for policy changes on behalf of the company, including over the export of its cutting-edge chips.
New York Rep. Gregory Meeks, the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said Thursday he hasn’t spoken to his Republican counterpart yet but that he’s preparing to create a subcommittee next Congress to focus on the questions surrounding the fallout of Huang’s affairs.
“We may very well be setting up a subcommittee just focused on some of this stuff because that’s how important and significant it is,” he said, adding he wanted to approach the issue in a bipartisan way.
“I can guarantee you,” he told reporters. “Come Jan. 4, there will be some hearings.”
Nvidia did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
