The Democrat-controlled House Foreign Affairs Committee announced they are launching contempt proceedings against Secretary of State Mike Pompeo over his defiance of Congressional subpoenas in two separate investigations and what they called his “alarming disregard” for the law.

The first subpoena Pompeo ignored was issued in September 2019, and sought records related to the impeachment inquiry into President Trump. The second subpoena sought documents to aid the Committee’s investigation of Pompeo’s misuse of Department resources. While the State Department produced more than 16,000 pages for the two Republican-led Senate committees’ investigation, and announced last week they are gathering more, Pompeo has refused to share that information with the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, led by Democrats.

Pompeo “seems to think the office he holds, the department he runs, the personnel he oversees, and the taxpayer dollars that pay for all of it are there for his personal and political benefit,” Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said in a statement.

“From Mr. Pompeo’s refusal to cooperate with the impeachment inquiry to his willingness to bolster a Senate Republican-led smear against the president’s political rivals to his speech to the [Republican National Convention] which defied his own guidance and possibly the law, he has demonstrated alarming disregard for the laws and rules governing his own conduct and for the tools the Constitution provides to prevent government corruption,” said Engel.

Engel expressed particular frustration over Pompeo’s withholding of documents from the House that he had already turned over to the Senate. In a statement Engel wrote when he issued the subpoena for those documents last month, Engel said that  Pompeo was turning the State Department “into an arm of the Trump campaign.”

“After trying to stonewall virtually every oversight effort by the Foreign Affairs Committee in the last two years,” said Engel, “Mr. Pompeo is more than happy to help Senate Republicans advance their conspiracy theories about the Bidens.”

Pompeo is also under investigation by Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Texas) the vice chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee for addressing the Republican National Convention as a sitting Secretary while on a taxpayer-funded trip to Jerusalem.

“The Trump administration and Secretary Pompeo have shown a gross disregard not only of basic ethics, but also a blatant willingness to violate federal law for political gain,” Castro said in a statement. “Congress has a responsibility to stand up for the rule of law and hold them accountable for this corrupt behavior.”

Pompeo has also been criticized for his firing of the State Department’s Inspector General after reports that the IG was investigating alleged misuse of State Department resources for personal purposes by Pompeo and his wife.