Jensen Huang Agrees to Closed-Door Testimony on Alice Huang Ties, but No Date Is Set

Moolenaar is the Michigan Republican who chairs the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party. He told CBS's Face the Nation that the committee was still working out when Huang would appear before members of his panel and of the Foreign Affairs and Intelligence committees, Bloomberg reported.

The schedule matters because House leaders have already named a date. On November 12, the day Nvidia announced Huang's departure, the chairs of the three committees wrote asking him to sit for a closed-door interview on December 1. They said they would issue a subpoena if he did not accept by the evening of November 13, CBS News reported. Brian Mast, who chairs the Foreign Affairs Committee, said that day Huang had indicated he was willing to appear.

The Senate is pursuing its own inquiry. Tim Scott, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, asked Huang to testify voluntarily in the first week of December. He also asked Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to appear at a public hearing in December, and warned the committee was prepared to use its subpoena power. "The American people deserve answers," Scott wrote.

The House Foreign Affairs Committee has also requested testimony from Jeffrey Kessler, the Under Secretary of Commerce who runs the Bureau of Industry and Security, which enforces chip export controls. No date was given.

The pressure on the company is not limited to Congress. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Sunday that Nvidia needs a "dramatic shakeup" after Huang's exit and urged it to bring in an outside chief executive. Alice Huang is linked to Megaspeed, the Singapore-based GPU cloud provider at the centre of questions over how Nvidia processors reached China.

The closed format means lawmakers, not the public, will hear Huang's account first. The committees have not said whether a transcript will be released.