Posted on 04/24/2020 8:32:58 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
House Democrats have voted to begin yet another witch hunt.
In a strictly partisan vote, 212-182, the House voted on Thursday to create a select committee to oversee the federal response to the coronavirus crisis — and examine President Trump’s response.
The panel will be led by House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC) — a longtime Trump hater who has also endorsed Joe Biden. It will be comprised of seven Democrats and five Republicans — which means every vote will be 7-5 in favor of the Democrats.
The Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis within the House Oversight and Reform Committee will review the “efficiency, effectiveness, equity and transparency” of how federal relief money is expended — and examine the Trump administration’s response to the coronavirus.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) called for the committee earlier this month, but then she adjourned the House and sent lawmakers home.
“The committee will root out waste, fraud and abuse,” Pelosi said during House floor debate on Thursday. “It will be laser-focused on ensuring that taxpayer money goes to workers, paychecks and benefits. And it will ensure that the federal response is based on the best possible science and guided by health experts, and that the money invested is not being exploited by profiteers and price gougers.”
But Republican lawmakers said the new panel is a clear attempt to try to hurt Trump in the runup to the November election.
Rep. Jim Jordan, the top Republican on the House Oversight and Reform Committee, said the select panel is “just a continuation of the attack that the Democrats have had on the president for the past four years.”
“Now this. A select committee in an election year, the summer of an election year, to attack the president,” Jordan said, adding that it will be led by the “biggest supporter of the Democrats’ nominee for president.”
“This is just one more attempt by the Democrats to go after the president, one more chance for them to attack the president in an election year,” Jordan said, noting that there are already eight processes underway to track federal money for virus relief.
When Pelosi announced her intention to create the committee, Trump warned against politicizing the virus.
“I want to remind everyone here in our Nation’s Capitol, especially in Congress, that this is not the time for politics, endless partisan investigations, here we go again. They’ve already done extraordinary damage to our country in recent years,” Trump said on April 2. “You see what happens, it’s a witch hunt and witch hunt after witch hunt and in the end the people doing the witch hunt have been losing. They’ve been losing by a lot. And it’s not any time for witch hunts, it’s time to get this enemy defeated.”
If allowed the Democrats would try to hold Trump impeachment hearings in Hell.
Peoples lives are being destroyed out here due to these incompetent fools and soon they’ll be starving but all they care about is their power and taking totalitarian control of the country.
the Democrat party is a treasonous group and a clear and present danger to the Republic.
Keep it up Democrats. This is not playing well with the voters.
I hope that every time Democrats say or do something stupid such as this, that Trump picks up a few more new voters.
The DIMs/Leftist-Lunatics are malignancies on civil society and reason. Useless doesn’t begin to describe them. What pathetic losers.
everytime frigging time these idiots have to attack the President whilst peoples lives are being ruined.
So sick of their crap and voters need to remember what their elected officials have and are doing , because the Democrat radical party of today cares nothing about the voters, or this country.
All they care about is their own power and wealth.
We need to pray for Trump. If he is not elected this Fall he WILL go to jail. Its not about right and wrong, its good v evil
I believe the republicans can neuter this committee by simply not showing up for “hearings”
Clyburn is one of the dumbest people in Congress, which is not a small group
He should have vetoed this damned bill!!! One Republican in the House voted for it!!! Only 6 Senators all together!!!
Another nail in their coffin for the dead party.
That will stop any further funding of state governments - good. Of course the Dem governors will be upset.
Hmmm. Might movement in John Durham’s investigation, such as word that Durham recently expanded his team, be causing Dems to get antsy? Could the Dems be trying something to muddy the news a bit, in order to take focus away? Nah...just had to ask.
About 200 days to the election.
This investigation is, of course, ”bi-partisan.” All of our worries are o-v-e-r (snx). We’ll soon know:
<><> why Schiff set up his own surveillance state to target ONLY the president’s allies’
<><> why Democrats wasted taxpayers’ time and tax money w/ impeachment as the deadly virus raged in China;
<><> Why Schiff issued secret subpoenas to publicly-held phone carriers to ransack the private lives of their subscribers;
<><> why Schiff lasered in on obtaining (and publishing) ONLY the calls of Trump’s allies;
<><> Why publicly-held phone carriers turned over nearly 4,000 pages of confidential records, violating customers’ rights to data privacy.
<><> when Penslosi will bring a bill to Congress holding phone carriers responsible for failing to protect their customers’ privacy.
HERE’S SOME CONTACTS HELPFUL DEMOCRATS WILL, NO DOUBT, MAKE AVAILABLE:
To report wrong-doing by publicly-held companies
EMAIL enforcement@SEC.gov
Judicial Watch
425 3rd Street, SW, Suite 800
Washington, DC 20024
TELE 1-888-593-8442 between 8:30am and 5:30pm EST.
Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice
How to file a complaint: https://www.justice.gov/crt/how-file-complaint
TREASON
Agreed and if anyone wants evidence then look how that fanatical hateful party are punishing one of their own law makers in MI.
All because she praised the President.
How far is this going to go? This shit is serious. The left is totally insane and delusional and/or they want a true civil war. The war that will rip the country to shreds because they hate one man and have nothing to offer to counter him so I guess going Kamikaze is the tactic.
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