Deal Between McCarthy And MAGA Reps Includes GOP Committee To Review Ongoing Criminal Investigations

Politico reports:

A proposed subcommittee to investigate “weaponization” of the federal government — a key demand of House conservatives who delivered Speaker Kevin McCarthy the gavel — would be given sweeping investigatory powers that include explicit authority to review “ongoing criminal investigations.”

The language of the proposed “select subcommittee,” which would operate under the Judiciary Committee expected to be chaired by Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), also gives the panel power to access any information shared with the House Intelligence Committee.

That panel typically receives the highest-level classified intelligence and briefings of any committee in Congress. Both provisions appear to have been added during final negotiations between McCarthy and a band of hardline detractors that briefly denied him the speakership.

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