Kevin McCarthy Considers Creation of Investigative Committee to Probe DOJWendell Husebø 9 Aug 2022
House minority leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is considering the creation of an investigative committee to probe the Justice Department and other weaponized agencies after the FBI reportedly raided former President Donald Trump’s estate of Mar-A-Lago on Monday.
“When Republicans take back the House, we will conduct immediate oversight of this department, follow the facts, and leave no stone unturned,” McCarthy said in a statement. “Attorney General Garland, preserve your documents and clear your calendar.”
When McCarthy was asked by Punchbowl News about what type of committee he would create upon likely retaking the House, he said he would confer with the Republican caucus. “I gotta talk to my members and see where we go,” McCarthy said. “We have to follow it wherever it goes.”
There are a couple of types of committees that McCarthy could erect. First, a select committee could be created and would exclude Democrats, similar to the Democrats’ partisan January 6 Committee. A select committee is a type of temporary committee created to conduct investigations or consider other measures on a specific topic. Second, McCarthy could run the investigation through existing bipartisan committees, such as the Judiciary or Oversight and Reform Committees.
Precedent suggests Republicans may form a committee like the Church Committee, “which investigated a broad range of governmental misconduct by intelligence agencies during the mid 1970s,” Punchbowl News reported.
“That select Senate panel, chaired by the late Sen. Frank Church (D-Idaho), was tasked with looking into ‘illegal, improper or unethical activities’ by any government agency.”
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