House Republicans have tapped some of their unruliest colleagues to spearhead the chamber’s political investigations arm, a roster that includes more than a dozen members who voted to overturn the 2020 presidential election, 10 who’ve already endorsed impeaching a Biden administration official, and a trio of folks who disregarded subpoenas issued by the Jan. 6 select committee in the last Congress.
House Oversight Committee chair James Comer welcomed the “all-star lineup” of newcomers — including Kevin McCarthy-aligned Republican Reps. Lisa McClain of Michigan and Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, as well as speaker-vote rebels Reps. Scott Perry of Pennsylvania, Lauren Boebert of Colorado, and freshman Anna Paulina Luna of Florida — on Wednesday, touting their mission as “to root out waste, fraud, abuse” and collectively “hold the Biden Administration accountable.”
Authorizing this menagerie of scandal-plagued politicians to probe others, and possibly insert themselves into Department of Justice and FBI investigations reviewing their own activities, seems ridiculous to American Enterprise Institute scholar Norm Ornstein.
“It’d be like if we gave Al Capone the power to investigate Eliot Ness,” Ornstein said during a press conference hosted by left-leaning nonprofit Facts First USA on Wednesday, referring to the infamous gangster and the prohibition agent who brought him down.
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