ActBlue CEO Regina Wallace-Jones on Wednesday refused to answer questions during her testimony before the House Administration Committee regarding allegations of the organization funneling foreign
campaign donations to Democratic candidates in federal elections, asserting her Fifth Amendment right. Wallace-Jones vowed not to answer any questions during the hearing in an earlier op-ed published by The Washington Post. She held firm to her pledge on Wednesday, refusing to answer even a question about her name from Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.). “Invoking the Fifth Amendment is not an admission, or even an insinuation, of guilt. It is not a retreat,” Wallace-Jones argued in the op-ed, continuing “it is the only reasonable response to a proceeding that from the beginning has been about harassing a political opponent’s fundraising platform, not genuine oversight.”