In a party-line vote, lawmakers approved the creation of the panel, with 220 Republicans voting in favor and 211 Democrats voting against. Republican leaders have said the panel will curb the “weaponization” of government against Americans.
Republican leaders have said the panel will curb the “weaponization” of government against Americans and promised to use it to curb alleged abuses by the nation’s intelligence and law enforcement agencies. The panel will also focus on alleged coordination between social media giants and the federal government.
The new committee, which Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., agreed to create in order to end last week’s standoff with hard-right House members, will include 15 members including Jordan, and an as-yet-to-be decided number of Democrats that could include Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y. House leaders are still in the process of selecting the rank-and-file members of committees, but the new panel could easily include lawmakers who participated in the events surrounding the Jan.
Republican leaders have repeatedly compared the new panel to the Church Committee — an oversight panel created in 1975 and led by then-U.S. Sen. Frank Church, D-Idaho, which uncovered stunning secret programs run by the government, including human experimentation in an effort at mind control and clandestine efforts to assassinate foreign leaders.
Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Mass., said the new panel sounded more like one run by Sen. Joseph McCarthy, the anti-communist crusader, in the 1950s.
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