PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) — Rhode Island House Speaker Shekarchi and Senate President Valarie Lawson said that Oversight Committee hearings were being scheduled to investigate Gov. Dan McKee’s administration withholding a forensic audit of he Washington Bridge for over a year.

The politicians said that meetings would be held on Oct. 2 to discuss the “scheduling and format” of the hearings, and that they may require state officials to speak under oath.

McKee’s administration released the report on Sept. 26.

McKee said the decision to keep the report private for so long was made in the “best interest” of Rhode Islanders, and that his team chose to sue several companies it said failed to properly maintain the bridge.

The full statement from Shekarchi and Lawson can be read below:

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