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GOP decries ‘impeachment 2.0’ as Pelosi names top Trump critics to coronavirus oversight panel
By Brooke Singman | Fox News April 30, 2020:
House Democrats create coronavirus aid and response oversight panel
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday appointed several high-profile Democrats who have been outspoken advocates of impeachment in the past to sit on a new committee overseeing the Trump administration’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, prompting House Republicans to blast the effort as “impeachment 2.0.”Pelosi, D-Calif., and Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., who will chair the committee, announced six Democrats to serve on the committee: House Financial Service Committee Chairwoman Maxine Waters, D-Calif., House Oversight Committee Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., House Small Business Committee Chairwoman Nydia Velazquez, D-N.Y., and Reps. Bill Foster, D-Ill., Jamie Raskin, D-Md., and Andy Kim, D-N.J.
HOUSE OKS COMMITTEE TO PROBE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT CORONAVIRUS RESPONSE, AMID GOP OBJECTIONS
The House voted last week to approve the creation of the committee to oversee the federal response, even as Republicans blasted the idea as politically motivated and argued Democrats would use it as a forum to attack the president.
Pelosi said the committee was designed to address the “here and now,” specifically concerning the allocation of the historic amount of federal funds directed to the economic recovery. She compared the panel to the committee chaired by then-Sen. Harry Truman in 1941 to investigate waste, fraud and abuse in defense spending in the early days of World War II.
“We must be sure that the money we put forth goes to those who need it most, in a way that addresses disparities in access to health care and credit,” Pelosi said Wednesday. “We also owe it to the American people to prevent waste, fraud and abuse and to protect against price-gouging and profiteering.”
She added: “As we respond to this unprecedented pandemic, there will be other opportunities for Member participation which have been suggested for inclusion in legislation.”
The members appointed to serve on the committee, however, were outspoken during the House impeachment inquiry, with some, like Waters, advocating for the president’s removal throughout his administration.
Waters, last year, tweeted that impeachment was “not good enough for Trump.” She said: “He needs to be imprisoned & placed in solitary confinement. But for now, impeachment is the imperative.”
Raskin was also in contention to be a House impeachment manager, though did not actually get the job. Maloney called for an impeachment inquiry in June 2019, even before the Ukraine controversy developed that ultimately led to Trump’s impeachment trial.
Pelosi did not announce any Republicans for the committee. That decision is expected to be left to House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif.
But a spokesman for McCarthy on Wednesday blasted the creation of the committee altogether.
“Instead of looking for innovative ways to help the American people, Speaker Pelosi has chosen to pursue ‘impeachment 2.0’ with a partisan and unnecessary oversight committee,” the McCarthy spokesman told Fox News.
The McCarthy spokesman noted to Fox News that the House already “has a standalone Oversight Committee, oversight authority in each committee, and three new oversight bodies established in the CARES Act.”
“The roster the Speaker has chosen makes clear that this is not an honest effort at transparency and accountability, but rather another attempt to politically damage the Trump administration,” the spokesman said. “During a time of unprecedented crisis, Congress must come together to speak with one voice – the Speaker’s so-called coronavirus oversight task force is simply another partisan pursuit.”
It is unclear which Republicans, if any, will be on the committee.
The Clyburn committee is just one of several methods created for oversight of the federal government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Earlier this month, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., and Sens. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., and Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., also announced their intention to create a 9/11-style commission, set to launch in February 2021 “hopefully after the pandemic has been overcome and after the presidential election.”
That commission would be granted subpoena power to compel cooperation from federal, state and local government officials, as it examines government preparedness in advance of the pandemic.
The more than $2.2 trillion CARES Act passed last month also created the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee, which Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz appointed Robert Westbrooks to lead.
Horowitz recently announced the launch of a website to track the trillions of dollars in coronavirus relief spending and “promote transparency” in the federal response.
SCHIFF, FEINSTEIN, HARRIS FORMALLY PROPOSE 9/11-STYLE COMMISSION ON CORONAVIRUS OVERSIGHT
The website also promotes a hotline, where individuals can submit allegations of fraud, waste, abuse or whistleblower reports, as well as a form where individuals can submit feedback on the federal government’s response to COVID-19.
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15 Comments
3 years ago
Even a complete moron can see pelosi and her merry band of conspirators have been working towards something other than what their constituents elected them to do. It’s time to investigate the investigators because they have some explaining to do to America.
3 years ago
Cut off her ice cream delivery! Her remaining brain cell is frozen.
Let her eat cake!
3 years ago
Reply to
Quantumphase
” …. remaining brain cell …” REMAINING?
Nazi peeloesee NEVER had a brain cell.
3 years ago
Was it a snack?
DEMS never give up!
3 years ago
3 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Thanks a lot, Garrison …… the very thought of Pelosi’s “Black Hole” made me retch.
3 years ago
3 years ago
Reply to
AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
Q. How to assure Trump in the White House for a second term 2020.
Easy.
A. Have the braid dead progressives start another impeachment witch hunt. (Right before the election.)
Pelosi can keep her finger in her nose. No matter what she digs out, the outcome will be the same.
3 years ago
3 years ago
You have to be kidding me right? Waste? Like the $25mil they gave the Kennedy Art center?
3 years ago
Enough is enough!! Americans have had quite enough of Nancy Pelosi’s congressional political action committees working to destroy President Trump and defeat him in November. Pelosi, Schumer, Nadler, Schiff, Mueller, Rosenstein et al have wasted far too much of the country’s time and money. TAKE YOUR MASKS OFF AND GO BACK TO WORK!!
3 years ago
” Pelosi said the committee was designed to address the “here and now,”
specifically concerning the allocation of the historic amount of federal
funds directed to the economic recovery.”
Uh, wasn’t it the democrats who INSISTED that ungodly amounts of “fluff” money be added to the bills?
3 years ago
Almost 4 whole years and these POS moronic libturd politicians are still wasting our tax dollars trying to remove a real American from our WH!!! They haven’t done a damn thing that we pay them for every month!!!! Time to start firing these morons!
3 years ago
What is this going to cost????Nancy is hell bent on getting Trump
out of office but it won’t happen. What a waste of time. This
woman is so disgusting.
