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Wednesday 30 november 2022
GOP’s new committee leaders prepare blitz of investigations

Continued from Front migration policies and the committee’s focus.
origins of COVID-19. “We’re going to investigate
Jordan helped form and “All those things need to between 40 and 50 differ-
then lead the ultra-con- be investigated just so you ent things,” Comer said
servative House Freedom have the truth,” Jordan Sunday on NBC’s “Meet
Caucus and voted on Jan. told conservative activists The Press.” “We have the
6, 2021, to object to count- last summer at a confer- capacity. We’ll have 25
ing Pennsylvania’s elector- ence. “Plus that will frame members on the commit-
al vote. President Donald up the 2024 race when I tee, and we’re going to
Trump thought so highly hope and I think President have a staff close to 70. So
of Jordan that he present- Trump is going to run again we have the ability to in-
ed the congressman with and we need to make sure vestigate a lot of things.”
the nation’s highest civil- that he wins.” The federal government’s
ian honor, the Presidential OVERSIGHT’S LONG LIST spending in response to
Medal of Freedom. Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., COVID-19 will also be scru-
The Judiciary Committee is expected to serve as tinized. “We believe that Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, speaks before former President Donald
handles oversight of the the next chairman of the there have been hundreds Trump at a rally at Dayton International Airport on Nov. 7, 2022,
Departments of Justice House Oversight and Re- of billions, if not trillions of in Vandalia, Ohio.
and Homeland Security form Committee and has dollars wasted over the Associated Press
and issues such as crime, made clear that investigat- past three years, so that serve all records related Congress, from health care
immigration and protec- ing President Joe Biden’s spans two administrations, to the chaotic withdrawal, to environmental protec-
tion of civil liberties. It’s son Hunter will be one of his in the name of COVID. which included the loss tion to national energy
typically one of the most top priorities. The Republi- “We want to have hearings of 13 U.S. service mem- policy. Republicans on the
partisan committees on cans say their investigation on that. We want to try to bers killed during a suicide committee have already
Capitol Hill, yet Jordan’s of Hunter Biden’s business determine what happened bombing attack. spent months investigating
combative style stands out dealings is to “determine with the fraudulent unem- “The way it was done was the origins of COVID-19 and
even there. The committee whether these activities ployment insurance funds, such a disaster and such are expected to continue
would be the place where compromise U.S. nation- the fraudulent PPP loan a disgrace to our veterans that work in the next Con-
any effort would begin to al security and President funds, some of this money that served in Afghanistan. gress. Reps. Jason Smith,
impeach a member of the Biden’s ability to lead with that’s being spent for state They deserve answers to R-Mo., Adrian Smith, R-
Biden administration, as impartiality.” and local governments in the many questions we Neb., and Vern Buchanan,
some Republicans have Comer has also been lay- the COVID stimulus mon- have,” McCaul said on R-Fla., have expressed in-
been proposing for Home- ing the groundwork for in- ey,” Comer said. ABC’s “This Week.” He add- terest in serving as the next
land Security Secretary Ale- vestigating the situation on AFGHANISTAN IN FOCUS ed: “Why wasn’t there a chairman of the tax-writing
jandro Mayorkas. the U.S-Mexico border. He Rep. Michael McCaul, R- plan to evacuate? How did House Ways & Means Com-
Jordan’s inquiries to the sent a letter to Mayorkas Texas, is expected to serve it go so wrong?” mittee, which has already
administration in recent seeking an array of docu- as the next chairman of the SPOTLIGHT ON ENERGY been seeking documents
months make clear the ments and communica- House Foreign Affairs Com- AND TAXES related to the spending in
committee will investigate tions pertaining to the ad- mittee, which will be inves- Rep. Cathy McMorris Rod- the nearly $1.9 trillion CO-
the FBI’s execution of a ministration’s border policy. tigating the U.S. withdrawal gers, R-Wash., is expected VID-19 relief package that
search warrant at Trump’s “We cannot endure anoth- from Afghanistan. McCaul to serve as the next chair of Democrats passed early
Mar-a-Lago residence. He er year of the Biden Admin- reiterated a request in mid- the Energy and Commerce last year. The committee
has also advocated for a istration’s failed border poli- October for various docu- Committee, which has the also has oversight over the
wide-ranging look at the cies,” the letter said. ments and directed the broadest jurisdiction of any IRS, a frequent target of
Biden administration’s im- But that’s just a slice the State Department to pre- authorizing committee in GOP scrutiny and scorn.q

Letter: ‘Nothing to suggest’ Alito

violated ethics standards

an inquiry from lawmakers Roe v. Wade, was leaked. ter Tuesday to Congress
following a New York Times But while that leak was a included language Alito
report earlier this month. public disclosure of the text, used previously denying
That report said that a for- the new report alleged that the case's outcome had
mer anti-abortion leader in the 2014 case, the disclo- been disclosed.
was told in advance the sure wasn't as broad. "There is nothing to suggest
outcome of the Burwell v. In the Times story, Rev. Rob that Justice Alito's actions
Hobby Lobby Stores case Schenck said he was told violated ethics standards,"
involving health care cov- the outcome of the 2014 Supreme Court legal coun-
erage of contraception. decision by Gail Wright, a sel Ethan Torrey wrote in a
Light illuminates part of the Supreme Court building at dusk on In a 5-4 decision, Alito wrote donor to an organization letter addressed to Sen.
Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022. that some companies with he headed who had dined Sheldon Whitehouse of
Associated Press
religious objections can with Alito and his wife. In Rhode Island and Rep.
avoid the contraceptives the story, Wright denied Hank Johnson of Georgia.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The standards following a re- requirement in President obtaining or sharing any The two Democrats chair
Supreme Court said Mon- port that a 2014 decision Barack Obama's health information and Alito also courts subcommittees.
day in a letter to Congress he wrote was leaked in care legislation. emphatically denied dis- Alito was appointed to the
that there is "nothing to advance of its announce- Earlier this year, Alito's opin- closing the case's outcome high court in 2006 by Presi-
suggest" that Justice Sam- ment. ion in a different case, the in a statement. dent George W. Bush.q
uel Alito violated ethics The letter was in response to court's decision overturning The Supreme Court's let-