Gohmert gets an oversight chairmanship, despite challenging House Speaker John Boehner [View all]
WASHINGTON — Challenging the speaker hasn’t kept Rep. Louie Gohmert from moving up in the House.
Gohmert, R-Tyler, will chair a new subcommittee that will investigate and oversee the Environmental Protection Agency and Bureau of Land Management and other agencies.
In that role, Gohmert said, he will “hold this administration’s feet to the fire for the good of every household in America.” Rep. Rob Bishop of Utah, chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, named Gohmert to chair the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee.
“The economy is ready to do amazing things if we loosen the death grip that this administration has had by using over 70,000 pages of new regulations each year,” Gohmert said in a written statement.
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