Rep. James Comer has a balancing act ahead of him as the new chairman of the powerful House Oversight and Accountability Committee. He says the committee should be 'factual' rather than becoming overwhelmingly partisan.
He came to Washington with a mission to work his way up from the backbench of the committee he now heads. In the last Congress, he became the top Republican on the committee, which was led by then-Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y.
Appointed to Comer's committee this past week were Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, Lauren Boebert of Colorado and Paul Gosar of Arizona. Their additions are expected to further complicate the chairman's ability to not stray the committee into the fringe. Greene introduced articles of impeachment against Biden on his first day of office and promised to pursue the effort once seated on the committee.
Ian Sams, a spokesperson for the White House counsel's office, said in a statement that the chairman "once said his goal was to ensure the committee's work is 'credible,' yet Republicans are handing the keys of oversight to the most extreme MAGA members of the Republican caucus who promote violent rhetoric and dangerous conspiracy theories."
Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., who is returning to the committee this session, said he has confidence in Comer's ability to steer the ship. "He's interested in what the facts and the details are," Donalds said. "He's not hunting for news cameras and stuff like that. He just wants to get the job done." Republicans now hold subpoena power in the House, giving them the authority to compel testimony and conduct a far more aggressive investigation. GOP staff has spent the past year analyzing messages and financial transactions found on a laptop that belonged to Hunter Biden. Comer said the evidence they have compiled is "overwhelming," but did not offer specifics.by a federal grand jury in Delaware.
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