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Dithering GOP Stalls Houses New Trump-Russia Probe
Democrats now in control of the crucial intelligence committee want to get back to their Russia probe. It cant happen until the Republicans formally join.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/dithering-gop-stalls-houses-new-trump-russia-probe
The new leadership on the House intelligence committee is eager to revive the panels probe into the connections between Donald Trumps camp and Russia, an urgency underscored by the latest indictment of a Trump associate accused of lying to its investigation. But three weeks into the Democratic-controlled Congress, House Republicans havent taken a critical step necessary for the committee to begin any work at all.
The House Republican leadership has yet to name the intelligence committees Republican membership for the new Congress, with the exception of retaining Devin Nunes as ranking Republican. Without doing so, the committee is stalledno hearings, no internal business meetings. Democrats announced their membership roster on Jan. 16, adding Val Demings, Raja Krishnamoorthi, Sean Patrick Maloney, and Peter Welch to their ten extant members. (This Republican intransigence was first noted by The Rachel Maddow Show.)
Its not clear what the holdup is. That will be announced when it is ready, said Matt Sparks, a spokesperson for House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, who did not address the reasons for the delay. A representative for Nunes who does not pick the membership did not respond to Daily Beast inquiries.
Thus far, Democrats on the panel are not accusing the House GOP of deliberately dragging its feet on the committee appointments. Some Democrats are hopeful the GOP will name its roster by next week. But, a Democratic committee aide said, There is an urgency in getting all of our transcripts to Mueller that we cannot ignore.
Fridays indictment of Trump adviser Roger Stone underscored both that urgency and the stakes of the holdup. Among the offenses Mueller accuses Stone of committing are obstruction and false statements arising from his September 2017 testimony to the House intelligence committee, then under GOP management. Stone is the second such person to be indicted related to lying to the committees Russia probe, after ex-Trump attorney Michael Cohen.
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Lindsay
(3,276 posts)The GOP is not "dithering," they're obstructing.
Me.
(35,454 posts)mountain grammy
(26,623 posts)You said it.
manor321
(3,344 posts)But still there is no explanation of what the actual rule is.
Hugin
(33,163 posts)MagickMuffin
(15,943 posts)We do!!!
Just more republicon's MO. This is who they are, subverting our Democracy to bend to their every whim.
highplainsdem
(49,004 posts)dalton99a
(81,515 posts)duforsure
(11,885 posts)Many more Republicans in the House will be voted out of office in 2020.