House Republicans on the Oversight Committee on Monday announced they had launched a probe into reports of Chinese foreign nationals illicitly entering U.S. military bases. Committee Chairman James Comer and National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs Subcommittee Chairman Glenn Grothman wrote to FBI and Department of Defense seeking a briefing on the matter by Oct. 16. "The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is conducting oversight of how and to what extent foreign nationals are accessing U.S. military bases and facilities," the pair wrote to FBI Director Christopher Wray and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin. "According to a recent report, Chinese nationals, sometimes posing as tourists, have repeatedly accessed, or attempted to access, U.S. military bases and other sensitive government facilities as often as one hundred times in recent years."