GOP lawmakers push Jensen Huang and Howard Lutnick to appear before Congress amid Nvidia controversy

Updated on: November 12, 2026 / 9:59 PM EST / CBS News

Republicans on Capitol Hill are pressing now-resigned Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to appear before Congress early next month about the scandal that has rocked one of the most important companies in the world — as a Senate panel asks Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to testify.

"We need to know the full extent to which our national security has been put at risk," the chairs of the House Select Committee on China, Foreign Affairs Committee and Intelligence Committee said in a statement requesting Huang's presence.

The three committee chairs wrote a letter Thursday asking Huang to appear for a closed-door interview on Dec. 1. They said if he does not accept their request by Friday evening, the House Foreign Affairs Committee will issue a subpoena.

The upper chamber has also pushed Huang to appear. Republican Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, who chairs the Senate Banking Committee, asked Huang to testify voluntarily before the panel in the first week of December, but warned the committee is prepared to use its subpoena power if needed.

"The American people deserve answers," Scott wrote on X.

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