Showing posts with label subcommittee. Show all posts
Showing posts with label subcommittee. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 11, 2023

House Republicans want subcommittee to investigate the government - The Washington Post

"Jim Jordan and Kevin McCarthy claim to be investigating the weaponization of the federal government when, in fact, this new select subcommittee is the weapon itself," Rep. Jerrold Nadler of New York, the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, said in a statement. "It is specifically designed to inject extremist politics into our justice system and shield the MAGA movement from the legal consequences of their actions. In order to become Speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy sold out our democracy by handing power-hungry Jim Jordan subpoena power and a green light to settle political scores under the phony pretext of rooting out conservative bias."…


Wednesday, July 21, 2021

Opinion | Rep. Jim Banks is already trying to sabotage the Jan. 6 committee - The Washington Post

… the basic facts of the situation — like McCarthy's choice of Banks and Jordan — should be unflinchingly rendered as what they truly are: central to a broader campaign to cover up an effort to overturn our political order, a coverup saturated in a level of venality, bad faith and contempt for the public interest that has no place in a functioning democracy.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/07/20/jim-banks-jan-6-committee-sabotage/









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