Liz Cheney in a GOP primary last year, also will serve on the subcommittee. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., a former Oversight Committee chairman who launched aggressive investigations into the Obama administration more than a decade ago.įreshman Rep. “Unfortunately, throughout Democrats’ one-party rule in Washington we saw a dangerous pattern of the government being used to target political opponents while they neglected their most basic responsibilities.”īecause the panel is a special subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee, panel Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, who frequently clashes with Democrats, will lead the weaponization investigations. “The government has a responsibility to serve the American people, not go after them,” McCarthy said in a statement. One matter the panel will look into is the FBI search last year of Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s home and resort in Florida, as agents sought to retrieve classified material. Republicans have said the new weaponization panel will examine GOP accusations that the Justice Department, the FBI and other law enforcement agencies are being weaponized to investigate conservatives, including Trump. Carolyn Kaster / AP The weaponization panel Ronny Jackson, R-Texas, during the opening day of the 118th Congress at the U.S. Jeffries will now have an opportunity to appoint Democratic members to the special panels. Ronny Jackson of Texas, a Republican who was Trump’s White House physician, also got the nod for the Covid panel. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, who had been suspended from social media platforms for promoting Covid misinformation, to the select panel on the coronavirus pandemic.
Thomas Massie, R-Ky., who backed McCarthy but has caused headaches for GOP leadership in the past, also got a slot on the panel. Chip Roy of Texas and Dan Bishop of North Carolina - two of the 21 conservative holdouts who initially blocked McCarthy during the five-day battle over the speaker’s gavel this month. The Weaponization of the Federal Government panel, which will investigate Republican allegations that the Justice Department, the FBI and other law enforcement agencies are being weaponized to investigate conservatives like former President Donald Trump, will include Reps. McCarthy on Tuesday also named the GOP members of two select subcommittees Republicans formed after they took control of the House.
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