House Democrats intend on fully participating in the new select committees established by the Republican majority to investigate the Biden administration, including a new judiciary subcommittee on the alleged “weaponization” of the FBI and other arms of the government against American citizens.
“We call that the ‘tinfoil hat committee’ in our caucus,” House Democratic Caucus Chairman Rep. Pete Aguilar, D-Calif., said Tuesday. Speaking at a news conference, Aguilar said Democrats will not boycott any of the new GOP-led committees, as Republicans did with the Jan. 6 Committee in the last Congress.
“It is our intent to seat members on every subcommittee, every select committee, every subcommittee that the leadership on the majority side advances,” he told reporters at a news conference. “It’s in our best interests to make sure we are representing the will of the caucus and the American public, and that Republicans don’t have an opportunity behind closed doors to shape and to add to these conspiracy theories that is not in the interest of the American public.” Read more…