GOP faces choice in House Homeland race: Target border crisis or investigate Biden

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GOP faces choice in House Homeland race: Target border crisis or investigate Biden
by Anna Giaritelli, Homeland Security Reporter |
November 21, 2022 05:00 AM

The next leader of the House Homeland Security Committee will determine whether Republicans aggressively beef up border security and strive to end the record-high influx of illegal immigrants or hold the Biden administration's feet to the fire for its actions since taking office.

Six Republicans have thrown in their hats for the job of chairman, a coveted position responsible for setting the agenda of the committee for two years. The top Republican on the minority at present, Rep. John Katko (R-NY), is retiring from Congress in early January, leaving a vacancy.

But for Republicans who will regain control of the committee after winning a majority of seats in the House, it is not a matter of who is most popular but the direction of the GOP.

More centrist Republicans like Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) want to focus on ending the humanitarian and security crisis at the southern border, where federal police have recorded 4 million encounters with illegal immigrants since President Joe Biden took office.

Crenshaw is one of the more recent candidates to jump in the race. He served on the committee during his first term and was tapped to chair its oversight panel as a freshman. He was moved in his second term to the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/house/republicans-face-choice-target-border-crisis-investigate-biden-house-chairmanship

[sneakypete]

Are we supposed to believe they just won't have the time to do both?

They DO understand that NONE of them actually spend much time doing more than running for re-election and attending campaign finance dinners,right?

Am I the ONLY one that things they could manage to spend a little time writing a few lousy bills and getting them passed in a congress THEY control?

Or is that really asking too much?

[Fishrrman]

The border crisis is where the attention should be focused.

ol' white joe biden will be gone in 2 more years.

But what's happening at the border -- NOW, and conditions that will only grow worse unless some kind of intervention is taken -- will destroy the country.

Rapidly.