Posted on 04/02/2020 12:03:02 PM PDT by USA Conservative
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Thursday she's creating a new House committee to oversee the coronavirus response that will have subpoena power to seek information from the Trump administration. "It would have subpoena power that’s for sure. It's no use having a committee unless you have subpoena power," Pelosi, D-Calif., said Thursday during a teleconference call with reporters. "And we would hope that there would be cooperation because this is not a kind of an investigation of the administration it's about the whole [response]." Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., will chair the House Select Committee on the Coronavirus Crisis. The committee will be bipartisan, she said, with Democrats and GOP members appointed. Unlike the 9/11-style after-action committee to investigate missteps in the coronavirus response that Rep. Adam Schiff and others have proposed, Pelosi said this committee is designed to address the "here and now" -- specifically concerning the allocation of the historic amount of federal funds directed to economic recovery. Pelosi compared the new committee to the Senate bipartisan 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. "With over $2 trillion in emergency relief, we need to ensure those dollars are spent carefully and effectively," Pelosi said of the massive stimulus bill Congress already passed to address the coronavirus pandemic. Pelosi said the committee will investigate how the private sector is spending its government funds and press to ensure the federal response is based on science and health experts.
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Trump should have done a lot of things months ago. His hands are tied right now.
Keep it up, Nancy.
Will be nice to have a majority in the House again in 2021.
All Pelousy and her cabal are about is evil, obstruction, and destroying USA any way they can. You’d think she would suspend her sedition just temporarily at least to try to help defeat The Virus. But no, not a chance.
Good oly Queen Nancy; any thing she can do to impede efforts to fight the virus, gum up the works, and get more people killed so she can blame the President.
Couldnt she find someone more stupid to oversee distribution of the spoils?
Well
Maybe not
Nancy, prepare for major blowback if your “efforts” in any way distract the administration from their number one mission.
FUNP! (I was going to just put FUN!, but that didn’t look right.)
Why isn’t Congress under quarantine?
Pelosi is 80 years old. How much longer will she have the power to jerk people around?
Yep.
I don’t wish this on anyone. Not even Chris Cuomo.
But, uh, breathe deeply, Nancy Pants. Nice and deeeep.
Oh noes more investigations zzzzzz
The FBI? They work for the Chicoms and Rats.
Who didn’t see this coming?! And Pelosi, with her trumped up (pardon the expression) impeachment hearings, was the primary distraction preventing awareness of the danger the Corona virus represented from becoming better known, thus hindering the US in time and focus in slowing/stopping the virus spread to the US.
Any good Trump does, Pelosi tries to negate.
These precedents will not be one-sided.
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