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Oval Office operations and decision-book handling: Williams describes routine handoffs, no classified documents seen at Penn Biden Center

House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform · October 28, 2025
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Summary

Ashley Williams described how the Oval Office Operations team coordinated delivery of briefing and decision materials to President Biden, said staff-secretary and residence staff sometimes handled handoffs, and that she did not see classified records during a visit to the Penn Biden Center in October 2022.

Ashley Williams told the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform that the White House process she observed for delivering briefing and decision materials to the president was routine, that staff-secretary and Oval Office operations were responsible for compiling and delivering those books, and that she did not observe classified documents at the Penn Biden Center when she visited to review boxes of personal materials.

Williams described the standard roles she witnessed: the staff secretary’s office compiled briefing and decision memos into physical binders; the Oval…

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