The House panel voted 5-3 on Tuesday, one vote short of the six needed, after Omar missed a May 5 deadline to provide documents or testify.
Chair Kristin Robbins said she may ask congressional investigators to subpoena Omar, while alleging her 2020 MEALS Act helped loosen safeguards in the federal child nutrition programme.
The committee is also seeking records on Omar's contacts with Safari Restaurant, Aimee Bock and others tied to the Minnesota Feeding Our Future case, which allegedly defrauded the government of millions.
With a new national task force, what is being done to recover the hundreds of millions stolen from child nutrition funds?
As dozens are convicted, what systemic flaws allowed a $250 million nutrition fraud to operate for so long in one state?
How can emergency aid programs feed the vulnerable without enabling massive, multimillion-dollar fraud schemes?