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House Oversight and Reform Committee urges Dan Snyder to reconsider refusal to testify at hearing

The House Oversight and Reform Committee urged Washington Commanders owner Dan Snyder on Friday to reconsider his decision to not testify or appear at next week’s hearing about the team’s workplace misconduct scandal.

In a letter addressed to Snyder’s lawyer, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, a New York Democrat who is the chair of the committee, wrote that Mr. Snyder’s refusal “would be inconsistent with his repeated commitments to cooperate with the Committee and cast doubt on your assertion that the Commanders are now ‘a model of how to make extraordinary improvements in workplace culture.’”

Ms. Maloney gave Mr.