Posted on 04/15/2023 7:22:41 AM PDT by Twotone
Shortly before Republicans took control of the House in January, GOP leaders vowed to open a number of investigations into President Joe Biden and his administration regarding their conduct over the last two years.
Now, 100 days into their reign, Republicans have opened a flurry of inquiries and have held several hearings featuring testimony and evidence as they push ahead with their agenda. Top Republicans such as House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) long expressed their intent to investigate Biden's White House on a variety of fronts, ranging from the southern border to Hunter Biden’s laptop.
Here are five of the top investigations House Republicans opened after taking control of the lower chamber and where they currently stand:
The Afghanistan withdrawal
Republicans have long vowed to investigate the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan in August 2021, during which the country airlifted more than 12,000 people out as the Taliban quickly seized control of the government. The operation has been heavily scrutinized, particularly after a suicide attack outside the Kabul airport left 13 Americans and roughly 200 Afghans dead.
The House Oversight Committee opened an investigation into the matter in mid-February, requesting all information related to the withdrawal from the White House, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the U.S. Agency for International Development, and the Defense, Homeland Security, and State departments. As part of that request, Republicans sought access to documents, communications, and other information related to the withdrawal, evacuation, and the vetting process of Afghans being relocated to the United States.
The House Foreign Affairs Committee then held its first hearing on the withdrawal on March 8, which featured testimony from witnesses who were evacuated from Kabul in September 2021. The committee later subpoenaed Secretary of State Antony Blinken...
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Glad these hearings and investigations are going on, but wake me up when a democrat goes to jail.
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Ditto.
More Kabuki Theater?
It will all end up like Trey Gowdy. A big show, lots of sound and fury, not a damn thing accomplished!
The backstabbing GOP destroyed America,
covered-up the Election fraud,
and profit by the “candy” and trafficking.
THEY DID NOT RELEASE THE TAPES except to help
Pelosi’s friend.
THEY DO NOT OBEY the Law, and have no Honor. NONE.
Ale-HANDRO My-ORKAS is still in charge of Internal Security for the Perpetual State.
Merry Garfinkel of Minsk is still in charge of the Prosecutor General’s Office for the Perpetual State.
And most importantly, IRA Terrorist and Celtic Revenge Leader Joe ByeDone is still allowed to rule by decree.
Jordan making a few points. Cruz REALLY made points offa Mayorkas. But overall, the RatCom Occupation Junta is still rollin’ on. Spending trillions as they go.
As long as the DOJ is corrupt, things will not change. As long as Biden is resident, the DOJ will be corrupt.
The only political party in D.C. is the UniParty
which has a left and a right wing.
But it’s still ONE party — the party of accumulation of wealth and power. Nothing else matters; and they all have only ONE life-skill: getting elected.
They have NO other aptitudes or practical skills.
“....not a damn thing accomplished...”
As legislators, what power do they have other than investigate and refer??? Do you think the DOJ, FBI or the WH will cooperate????
Yeah, wake me up when there are indictments.
I need a very long uninterrupted sleep....
Investigations are useless if we don’t have fair elections.
As typical, all talk and no action.
The DOJ was corrupt under Trump as well. Nothing is changed in that department.
Could you translate this into salary and staff cost dollars wasted, please?
This nonsense is no better when our side does it than when the democrats do it. It’s just grandstanding for the base, but I don’t know who drops a check in the mail to Ronna McRomney because they are so excited these hearings are going on.
I am starting to believe it is all scripted just like “pro wrestling”.
So far, we have mostly learned we were right all along. Big deal. The media ignores the revelations, labels them old news, or simply calls it “partisan politics”. The average American could not tell you one thing these hearings have uncovered.
You want to know how bad it is? The Republicans just voted to give the FBI billions for a new HQ! That will teach them!
"Here’s where GOP investigations stand after 100 days in the House majority"
I now think that it is too much to expect career "MAGA Republican" lawmakers to publicly protest regular constitutional overreach, not only by the very corrupt, post-17th Amendment (17A) ratification Congress, but also by non-popularly elected bureaucrats running constitutionally undefined, so-called "federal regulatory agencies." Incumbent Republicans please prove me wrong.
In fact, patriots should know what RINOs to primary in 2024 without Trump's advice.
Also, consider that non-elected federal bureaucrats wrongly weaken the constitutionally enumerated voting power of ordinary citizens in both federal and state elections since federal bureaucrats base their unconstitutional edicts mostly on stolen state powers imo.
Note that Congress's constitutional overreach is primarily through unconstitutional taxing and vote-buying spending imo.
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
“If the tax be not proposed for the common defence, or general welfare, but for other objects, wholly extraneous, (as for instance, for propagating Mahometanism among the Turks, or giving aids and subsidies to a foreign nation, to build palaces for its kings, or erect monuments to its heroes,) it would be wholly indefensible upon constitutional principles [emphases added].” — Justice Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 2 (1833).
”Simply this, that the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Constitution, is in the States and not in the federal government [emphases added]. I have sought to effect no change in that respect in the Constitution of the country.” —John Bingham, Congressional. Globe. 1866, page 1292 (see top half of third column)
Pelosi: "We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it." (non-FR; 6 sec.)
“Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, judges and governors, shall all become wolves [emphasis added]. It seems to be the law of our general nature.” - Thomas Jefferson (Letter to Edward Carrington January 16, 1787)
Democrats Are Terrified Of An Educated And Informed Public (3.12.23)
Stolen elections aside, if I recall correctly (ahem), the definition of insanity is reelecting the same post-17A career RINOs over and over again, expecting different results each time.
I would assume they’re doing what they’ll always do, investigate enough to figure out a way to be stymied by the dems when it comes time to actually hold anyone accountable.
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