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AOC's bid for leading Dem on House Oversight Committee suffers 'huge blow': report

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez faced a potentially fatal setback in her bid to be ranking member on the powerful House Oversight Committee on Monday, Axios reported. According to the report, the Democrats' Steering and Policy Committee "voted to recommend Rep. Gerry Connolly as ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, several sources familiar with the vote told Axios. "Rep. Angie Craig, …

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AOC launches bid for 'profound and consequential' role as top Dem on House Oversight panel

Hoping to help lead a congressional panel that could be in a position to hold President-elect Donald Trump accountable to the American public in the coming years, U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Friday notified her colleagues that she is officially seeking the top Democratic seat on the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability. The responsibility of leading Democrats on the …

Rep. Jared Moskowitz rubbed salt in Rep. James Comer's wounds on Thursday when he recounted his failed efforts to impeach President Joe Biden. During a House Oversight Committee hearing that was intended to highlight "failures and incompetencies" of the Biden administration, Moskowitz delivered a lengthy list of all the mistakes he said Comer made during his impeachment probe of the …

A congressman called the House Oversight meeting into Dr. Anthony Fauci’s handling of the COVID pandemic “the most insane” he'd ever attended after it was hijacked by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Monday. The hearing, at which former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci was put on the hot seat by Republicans, was full of conspiracy …

A Republican witness became unglued Wednesday after a Democratic lawmaker declined to question him. At a Wednesday House Oversight Committee impeachment hearing, Rep. Ro Khanna directed questions to Lev Parnas, a former associate of Rudy Giuliani. Following Khanna's questions, former Hunter Biden business associate Tony Bobulinski hijacked Rep. Byron Donalds' time to complain. "In October 2020, I have messages I'm …

Rep. Jasmine Crockett blasted Rep. Nancy Mace after she accused Hunter Biden of white privilege Wednesday. "You are the epitome of white privilege coming into the Oversight Committee, spitting in our face, ignoring a Congressional subpoena to be deposed," Mace told the president's son. "It was a spit in the face, at least of mine as a black woman, for …

Busted: Dem lawmaker with military oversight is playing the market with a military supplier

Rep. Stacey Plaskett clashed with Rep. Jim Jordan on Thursday after she accused Republicans of using a "playbook" that includes "false narratives" about the 2020 election and the Capitol attack on Jan. 6, 2021. At a House Oversight hearing on government "weaponization," Plaskett blasted Jordan for only providing access to documentation minutes before the event. "And you don't want two …