Democrats selected Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif., to be the ranking member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee under Chair James Comer, R-Ky., in a 150-63 vote Tuesday, according to Newsmax congressional correspondent Kilmeny Duchardt.
The full Democrat caucus was in attendance for the closed-door vote to replace Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., who died of cancer last month, The Hill reported.
Rep. Stephen Lynch, D-Mass., 70, the sitting ranking member in the interim, lost the vote by a wide margin to Garcia, which taps him as the leading Democrat to obstruct Comer’s efforts to investigation the “cover-up” of former President Joe Biden’s cognitive decline and potential White House staff abuse of the autopen outside of Biden’s knowledge.
If, as many midterm elections tend to do, Democrats are able to regain control of the House, Garcia would go from obstructionist leader to chief investigator of President Donald Trump and his administration with sweeping subpoena powers currently held by Comer.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., had been wiped out in a race for that power position against Connolly, a defeat so large that she decided against running for the position again, according to The Hill.
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