With Republicans staking so much on their role as the chief investigators of the Biden administration, ambitious lawmakers seem to be scrambling to grab as much jurisdictional territory as possible.
, ambitious lawmakers seem to be scrambling to grab as much jurisdictional territory as possible.
“The more the merrier,” said Rep. Jim Jordan , chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, which is active on several investigative fronts. “You’ve got government doing so many things that are political, going after the American people, that you need anybody and everybody getting facts on the table so we can find legislative solutions.”
Democrats, meanwhile, have chalked up the GOP’s early oversight moves as pure chaos. They believe that’s making it easier for them to effectively respond to probes they believe are solely motivated to damage President Joe Biden. Clearly, McCarthy has not done the same. While leadership may believe a more-the-merrier approach will get results, it’s also true that oversight will be a critical tool for them to manage a fractious, unwieldy group of lawmakers. Most importantly for the speaker, letting his committees run free may help keep his most troublemaking lawmakers occupied.
While some panels have played on the issue while staying in their jurisdictional lanes, several are playing in the same sandboxes. Though oversight of the Department of Homeland Security primarily belongs to the Homeland Security Committee, the Oversight Committee has kept a frenetic pace of hearings and letters putting scrutiny on the department. That began in January, when Republicans rechristened the panel’s Subcommittee on National Security as the Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs.
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