House Republicans suddenly against investigations when Americans die

[turbinetree]

By Josh Israel -April 23, 2020 4:56 PM

181 House Republicans voted against a panel to oversee the Trump administration's pandemic response.

The House of Representatives voted 212 to 182 on Thursday to create a special panel to oversee the coronavirus pandemic and the federal government's response. But all 181 Republicans present and one conservative independent opposed the measure, with many dismissing the request for additional oversight as a scheme to hurt Donald Trump during an election year.

The new Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis will be chaired by Majority Whip James Clyburn, under the auspices of the Oversight Committee. It will have broad subpoena power and be tasked with overseeing taxpayer-funded COVID-19 relief programs, the pandemic's economic impact, any disparate impact on minorities, and the executive branch's preparedness, response, and decision-making.

Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) told her colleagues during the floor debate that the committee was absolutely needed.

"Look what's happened already," she said, reading out recent news headlines. "$55 million dollar contract to a bankrupt company (Panthera) in order to make N95 masks. Hedge fund managers claim bailouts as small businesses. Over 43,000 U.S. millionaires will get 'stimulus' awards of $1.6 million each."

https://americanindependent.com/house-gop-coronavirus-investigation-benghazi-kevin-mccarthy-jim-jordan-congress-covid-19/

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Lets have Hillary Clinton explain it in an ad for you McCarthy...........

[Turbineguy]

1. Can't really blame them.

It will take about 60,000 years to complete if Benghazi is anything to go by.

[kimbutgar]

2. Party over country

I hope their constituents remember this in November.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. IIRC, the admitted reason for the Benghazi investigations

was to hurt Hillary Clinton during an election year. Four Americans died at Benghazi. More than 10,000 x as many have died of COVID-19 but we can't investigate Trump because it's an election year.

[gratuitous]

4. Ready-made ad copy for everyone running against these bastards

"Congressman Clownstick von Fuckface doesn't want to find out why the Trump administration's response to the Covid-19 pandemic was so lethally incompetent. Vote Democratic. If you want to live."

[notdarkyet]

5. Bigger than Benghazi. Could take years to expose just the emails. Lock them up.

[Thomas Hurt]

6. 4 citizens die in a dangerous foreign country - multiple years long investigations.

42 K Americans die in the US over a couple of months........meh.

[Skittles]

7. they want to oversee Whitmer, not Trump

fascist fuckers