GOP Rep. James Comer has a balancing act ahead of him as the new chairman of the powerful House Oversight and Accountability Committee.
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.
“I think that Kevin McCarthy has put him in something of a squeeze play by giving in to all of the extreme right-wing demands in order to assemble his thin majority and then placing so many of the extremist members on the Oversight Committee,” said Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland, the top Democrat on the committee.
The White House responded this week by saying that Comer is “setting the stage for divorced-from-reality political stunts.” Comer said he has made it clear to those members that their mandate is the truth: “I said, `We’ll look into anything, but it’s not going to be on Oversight stationery unless we can back it up with facts.”
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. The younger Biden has never held a position in the presidential campaign or in the White House.
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