Oversight committee chair James Comer will outline plans which may borrow from January 6 panel’s tactics
Good morning, US politics blog readers. Today will start with a 10am eastern time speech from James Comer, the Republican chair of the House oversight committee, who is to detail the party’s plans to use its control of Congress’s lower chamber to hold the Biden administration to account. The GOP has made no secret of its plans to put a campaign of investigations against the Biden administration at the center of its strategy in Congress, since finding bipartisan agreement with the Democratic-led Senate may otherwise prove challenging. Comer and other committee chairs have already kicked off inquiries into a range of White House affairs, including the classified documents found in Joe Biden’s possession and the alleged “weaponization of the federal government”. We’ll see what else Comer has in store when he speaks at the National Press Club.
Here’s what else is going on today:
Biden is heading to Baltimore to discuss how the infrastructure package he signed in 2021 will help pay for the replacement of an aging rail tunnel, one of several events promoting the law the president has planned this week.
Democratic congressman Eric Swalwell and the Congressional Integrity Project – a group formed to hit back at the Republican investigation campaign – hold a press conference at 12pm eastern time.
Vice-President Kamala Harris will be in Raleigh, North Carolina, where she’ll talk about the Biden administration’s efforts to help small business owners.