Congress is calling on a pair of polo-playing socialites to explain how they successfully crashed The Obamas’ first White House State Dinner last Tuesday night at a hearing on Thursday.

House Homeland Security Committee chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson is asking Tareq and Michaele Salahi, of Faquier County, Virginia, and the head of the Secret Service, Mark Sullivan, to testify about the breach in security that allowed the couple to meet President Barack Obama, Vice-President Joe Biden and a number of other public figures without being on the party’s guest list.

“This is a time for answers, recognition of security deficiencies past and present, and remedies to ensure the strength of the Secret Service and the safety of those under its protection,” Thompson said in a statement to CNN Monday. “This is not the time for political games or scapegoating to distract our attention from the careful oversight we must apply to the Secret Service and its mission. My confidence in the management of the Secret Service hangs in the balance.”

The Salahis — who are reportedly bankrupt and living out of local hotels — are competing for a role on Bravo’s upcoming reality docudrama The Real Housewives of Washington, DC.