Democrats planning to sit on all GOP select committees

[brooklynite]

Source: The Hill

House Democrats will participate in all of the various special committee investigations being teed up by GOP leaders, the Democrats’ Caucus chairman vowed on Tuesday.

“It is our intent to seat members on … every select committee, every subcommittee that the leadership on the majority side advances,” Rep. Pete Aguilar (D-Calif.) told reporters in the Capitol.

That move would mark a shift from the Republicans’ strategy in the last Congress, when GOP leaders boycotted the select committee formed to investigate the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol — an abstention that some Republicans came to regret, since it left former President Trump without a line of defense throughout the marathon probe.

Aguilar said Democrats won’t make the same mistake this cycle, when Republicans are poised to create a series of special committees to investigate the Biden administration and other facets of federal policy, including what Republicans consider the “weaponization” of the government to target Trump and other conservatives unfairly.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3807433-democrats-planning-to-sit-on-all-gop-select-committees/

[ZonkerHarris]

1. Ramp up your investigative committee works Senate Democrats

[jimfields33]

2. I can imagine how repugs will chose which democratic house members get seated.

[Fullduplexxx]

3. only cinema and manchin will be seated

[BumRushDaShow]

4. Wrong chamber

[Fullduplexxx]

5. lol youre correct ... D'OH..

[BumRushDaShow]

7. If Rs controlled the Senate and Turtle was in charge and they did a Select Committee there

I'm sure that Carnival Cruz and Run Hawley Run would consider that.

[Grins]

27. Minority leader picks their members.

[mjvpi]

6. This is great news.

It will be a huge waste of public servants time, but necessary in my view.

[SlimJimmy]

8. Let's be honest here

The repukes boycotted the committee after Speaker Pelosi rejected their initial selections. The problem we face now is that Speaker McCarthy can do the same thing. I sometimes wish she hadn't done that.

"... when GOP leaders boycotted the select committee formed to investigate the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol"

[claudette]

9. But others could have served

on the J6 committee other than the ones Pelosi did not approve. Gopers said NO. That’s not Pelosi’s fault

[SlimJimmy]

10. Actually it *is* Pelosi's fault.

When she rejected these members, she set precedent for what McCarthy is going to do. She should have just accepted them and continued with he J6 Committee. It wold have revealed the same information with or without them.

[Mr.Bill]

14. I think that committee would have been a shit show

if Pelosi had not rejected the people McCarthy tried to put on it. Imagine Gym Jordan screaming at all the witnesses.

[NBachers]

15. Pelosi did the right thing with the rejections she made.

[brooklynite]

16. "It wold have revealed the same information with or without them."

No, it wouldn't. The advantage of a unitary Committee is that the Hearing time could be programmed (remember the producer from ABC?) to present the Committee's findings. Having election-denial Republicans on the Committee would have diverted a large chunk to counter narratives and/or hostile questioning of public witnesses.

nb: I spoke to the J6 Committee producer last month. She thinks the Republicans will try the same model with their issues.

[paleotn]

18. Exactly.

[claudette]

19. No. It isn't her fault that

NO Gopers chose to be on the committee. The J6 committee would not have been so productive and professional if Gym Jordan et al would have spoiled it. You have seen how they have behaved at other hearings.

[SlimJimmy]

28. She set up what McCarthy just did.

IMHO, I don't think them being on the committee would have made a lick of difference. The same information would have been reported and the final report would have been the same.

[claudette]

33. Well, then

if that is so, then Dems can send other Dems to serve on the committee. She gave Gopers a choice.

[News Junkie]

21. McCarthy could follow Pelosi's model

Reject Democrats he doesn't want. Then it would be up to us whether to keep offering replacements or pull out. I suspect we do the first.

[brooklynite]

26. McCarthy said tonight he won't keep Dems from special Committees.

[Chicago1980]

29. For what?

Why should she have accepted people who'd have only been disruptive and are quite possibly being investigated themselves for participating in the event??

[The Roux Comes First]

24. If Pelosi Had Not Rejected the R-Appointed Assholes We Would Have Never Seen More Than a

Fraction of the good work the committee shared with a huge national audience.

It was a truly stupid move that they then boycotted the J6 in an apparent fit of pique - or perhaps they did not feel they had equally-talented saboteurs on their bench.

[SlimJimmy]

30. I repspectfully disagree. I don't think it would have made a bit of

difference. The final report would have been exactly the same. What she did was set McCarthy up to do the same thing. He's already kicked some of our folks off of committees and subcommittees.

[SlimJimmy]

31. As I have said elsewhere. By taking that action, she set McCarthy up to do the same thing.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

11. Daniel Goldman is going to be a great congresscritter

Link to tweet

[Drum]

12. +1

[Javaman]

13. It will be amising

Dems read the rules, repukes don’t.

The Dems can tie up the repuke committees with procedural issues

😂😂😂

[Septua]

17. I just want to understand how the election denying, coup participating...

..Jim Jordan types explain the justification for investigating Biden for influence peddling and weaponizing/politicizing the FBI/DOJ when Trump peddled influence and weaponized/politicized the entire Executive branch of the government soon as he realized he could.

It is simply, hypocrisy in action.

[dem4decades]

20. Of course they will, they're not stupid like the Republicans.

[Martin68]

22. Good. Don't make the mistake they made open the Jan 6th Committee. Just be there and record

all the inanity.

[Drum]

23. Ya gotta be in it to win it n/t

[AZLD4Candidate]

32. For people who claim to alpha, they sure whine and cry a lot about everything

"Waah, I'm being canceled because I'm a racist/sexist/homophobe/xenophobe/bigot and I'm being called out on it."

"Waah, they are investigating me because I'm conservative, not because there is a treasure trove of evidence against me."

It's amazing how weak and stupid these people are.