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 thats 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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If the House changes hands in November, this won’t be an issue for long.
John Boenher, was before Ryan.
P.S. may they both rot in hell, faggot sellouts.
‘Poison Pen’ and ‘Porky Pig’ Pelosi at work...
With descriptors like ‘Poison Pen’ and ‘Porky Pig’, it shows how Pelosi is ‘PP’-ing on the American people...
That is you Congressman Schiff.
“John Boenher, was before Ryan.
P.S. may they both rot in hell, faggot sellouts.
How could I have forgotten about Boehner? The last 3 GOP Speakers have been disasters:
Hastert
Boehner
Ryan
Gingrich, before Hastert’s predecessor was a mixed bag. His Contract for American delivered the 1994 GOP House. However his ego got too big and Bill Clinton effectively outmaneuvered him in budget negotiations. He failed to maintain the momentum of 1994. By 1998 he resigned as Speaker after a poor GOP showing in the 1998 elections. Like Pelosi he made the mistake wasting time on the impeachment of a president who was not going to be convicted by the Senate. In the end Gingrich’s speakership was a failure.
Does anyone really believe Andrew McCarthy has the toughness to be an effective speaker?
300 days, Nancy. Enjoy every one of them.
You got that right. This is like congress trying to direct a war and Trump should respond accordingly.
Nancy is jumping right into the vanguard to commence the NEXT impeachment procedures against President Trump. This inquiry will NOT focus on the glossing over of early warning signs that China has a much worse situation than they are admitting, as that would place the blame squarely on the earlier impeachment attempt, in which the entire legislative branch, and many of the resources of the administrative branch, were tied up in the critical weeks of January and February.
Incompetence is indistinguishable from indifference.
Please, somebody arrest this woman for abuse of power.
May be getting close to the point of needing to institute martial law.
That beotch knows that Trump has this under control and he is getting all of the attention...and she knows that Slo’Joe is toast.
As long as they WANT to be jerked around.
Flame away :-)
Bet she was hot 50 years ago.....
Dems doing their part ... to throw sand in the gears during a crisis
(that’s all Dems know how to do: throw sand in the gears)
Did I miss something??
You think he has done nothing or not enough, you sound like a Democrat or a Bernie Bot
Or maybe a just a Never Trumper
Good grief
Fox radio has become more leftist in recent times, yes indeed we hear it quite clearly too.
its still a bit better than the communist propaganda media, but we share your concern for its future
I was speaking in terms of investigating and bringing some people to trial who are part of the Deep State. A lot of the nonsense highlighted by this thread has been exasperated by letting the Deep State run pretty much unscathed.
Where was congressional oversight for the $700 billion stimulus? What happened to all those shovel ready jobs? Not very curious? Neither were your friends in the media.
Pelosi pushes ‘SALT shakeup’ stimulus that could reduce her tax bill and enrich her wealthy district
Fox News ^ | April 01 2020 | Gregg Re
FR Posted on 4/2/2020, 2:03:52 AM by knighthawk
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., is pushing for a new stimulus bill that would roll back the state and local tax deduction (SALT), a measure that would predominately help wealthy individuals making more than $100,000 — including most residents in Pelosi’s district and perhaps even Pelosi herself.
A 2019 report from the Joint Committee on Taxation projected that of those who would face lower tax liability from the elimination of the SALT cap which only affects those who itemize tax deductions 94 percent earn at least $100,000. The government would lose out on $77.4 billion in tax dollars, with more than half of that amount being saved by taxpayers earning $1 million or more. Those earning more than $200,000 would reap most of the balance.
California’s 12th congressional district, which Pelosi represents, is among the wealthiest in the U.S., with a median income of $113,919, according to census data. The average household income is $168,456 — meaning most residents would benefit from any significant cut to SALT.
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