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BumRushDaShow

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8. Remember that Garcia only recently became the Democrats' House Oversight Ranking Member

Reply to Scrivener7 (Reply #6)

Tue Jun 16, 2026, 09:52 AM

8 hrs ago

after what was a contentious battle for the position last year.

A year ago after the 2024 election, Gerry Connolly won the position against younger challenger AOC. However Connolly fell ill and passed away, was briefly replaced by Stephen Lynch, and was finally replaced by García.

It was literally a generational change from Boomers to the younger end of GenX in an attempt to get someone younger and more fiery into that Oversight position, and García has been stepping up to the challenge to be seen and heard.

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Blanche, other Trump officials could face subpoenas on 'day one' of Democrat majority, Garcia says [View all] BumRushDaShow 12 hrs ago OP

Todd Blanche would be richly deserving of multiple subpoenas FakeNoose 11 hrs ago #1

November hasn't happened yet. mwmisses4289 11 hrs ago #2

right there with you Javaman 11 hrs ago #3

Yes. And they should not be making this a news Scrivener7 10 hrs ago #4

I think it's mainly for red meat purposes thrown to our base BumRushDaShow 10 hrs ago #5

There is a mountain of red meat out there that can be thrown to our base without using Scrivener7 9 hrs ago #6

Remember that Garcia only recently became the Democrats' House Oversight Ranking Member BumRushDaShow 8 hrs ago #8

As usual with your posts, that's very informative. Scrivener7 8 hrs ago #10

Yeah we often devolve into this unfortunately BumRushDaShow 4 hrs ago #12

Do you? That seems rather knee-jerk. I don't. Scrivener7 3 hrs ago #13

I spend time going through over 3 dozen news sites to try to find stories about Democrats "doing something" BumRushDaShow 3 hrs ago #14

And that is much appreciated. I hope you didn't take my comment personally? Scrivener7 3 hrs ago #15

Months ago, many GOPers were already whining about upcoming "investigations" if they lose the House BumRushDaShow 2 hrs ago #17

I'm kind of lost with all the twists this conversation is taking. Yes, I think we have Scrivener7 2 hrs ago #18

They better. But we need an independent tribunal to handle this level of treason travelingthrulife 9 hrs ago #7

The dumb magats will do their best to protect the criminals they put in office mdbl 8 hrs ago #9

So, more subpoenas to ignore. DiverDave 5 hrs ago #11

Headline should probably be "...Democratic...", not "...Democrat..." JustABozoOnThisBus 3 hrs ago #16