Pelosi names six new Democrats to coronavirus oversight panel
By Mike Lillis - 04/29/20 02:09 PM EDT
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Wednesday named six new Democrats to sit on a special committee overseeing coronavirus relief spending, signaling that party leaders intend to monitor the Trump administration aggressively as trillions of dollars go out the door.
The panel, created by a party-line vote last week, will be led by Rep. James Clyburn (S.C.), the Democratic whip. In a letter to Democrats Wednesday, Pelosi named six additional members: Reps. Maxine Waters (Calif.), Carolyn Maloney (N.Y.), Nydia Velázquez (N.Y.), Bill Foster (Ill.), Jamie Raskin (Md.) and Andy Kim (N.J.).
Democrats are billing the panel as a commonsense safeguard to ensure that the historic levels of emergency funding — money designed to prop up businesses, workers, families and medical providers most affected by the coronavirus fallout — aren't frittered away by fraud and abuse.
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