House Republicans Must Get Tough on Oversight Investigations in 2023, Hill Veterans SayIf voters hand Republicans a majority in the House of Representatives, GOP lawmakers involved in oversight investigations of the Biden administration in 2023 should get tough, longtime congressional aides and observers told The Epoch Times.
The biggest obstacle they will face in the 118th Congress, which convenes on Jan. 3, 2023, will be the refusal by the president’s appointees, especially Attorney General Merrick Garland, to cooperate with legitimate congressional oversight requests, according to Mike Howell, who worked on high-profile investigations in both the Senate and House.
“That’s not a hypothetical, that’s just what’s going to happen,” Howell told The Epoch Times when asked how congressional probes should respond if, for example, the Department of Justice (DOJ) declines to prosecute executive branch officials who defy congressional subpoenas....
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