WA EX:
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO), one of the final holdouts in Kevin McCarthy’s (R-CA) bid for House speaker, received a spot on the House Oversight Committee on Tuesday.
The Republican, who narrowly won her seat in Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District in November, will sit on a panel already gearing up for investigations into the Biden administration. The committee, chaired by Rep. James Comer (R-KY), is probing President Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents.
Boebert is one of several firebrand Republicans to be appointed to the committee. Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Paul Gosar (R-AZ), who were stripped of their committee assignments in the last Congress, received spots on the panel as well.
The House GOP Steering Committee, made up of about 30 members of House leadership, determined the Colorado Republican will also return to the House Natural Resources Committee. After holding out against McCarthy’s bid for four days, Boebert finally acquiesced and voted “present,” saying the concessions the hard-liners got from the GOP leader were a “massive victory” for the public.
“We changed the way bills will be passed,” Boebert wrote in a press release last week. “We changed the way the government will be funded. We changed the ways committees will be formed.”
The new roles for Boebert and other McCarthy detractors come after committee assignments became a major issue during the speaker battle. Rep. Mike Rogers (R-AL) at one point reportedly floated denying committee assignments to those who refused to vote for McCarthy.
House GOP leadership eventually negotiated a deal with the McCarthy holdouts that led to his election but maintain that no one was promised specific committee assignments in exchange for their vote for the California Republican’s bid. Reps. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and Chip Roy (R-TX) said they asked the House speaker for more conservative representation on top committees. more
As with all things government related I do not expect dragons to be slain, wrongs to be righted, or malefactors exposed and punished, but much like the catfights for speaker, the entertainment value should pique interest.
Any committee with Boebert, MTG, or Gaetz on it is going to be dynamic.
Matt Gaetz was on Timcast the other day, here are 10 minutes worth of insight into the backroom dealings, MTG, and what exactly his battle plan was, all good stuff;
youtube.com/watch?v=HNXaHnmalC8
Hope isn’t showing many signs of life yet, just a twitch or two.
MTG will do whatever RINO McCarthy TELLS her to do.
Girl’s gotta stand up for her honey, yo?
still pessimistically optimistic as well as several other oxymoronic themes.😆
I am not in her district, but I do believe in her. I think she will push for more conservative ideals and rules. Will enough republicans support those ideals? We will see
WA EX is almost as anti Ronny as WA Post!
This “news article” is a smear job on her!
I will quote verbatim!
” who narrowly won her seat in Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District in November,…”
WA EX derided Ronny backers this way
“Boebert is one of several firebrand Republicans to be appointed to the committee.”
I have no doubt that the liberal WA EX intended the negative connotation in “firebrand”!
Thisarticle is a smear of Ronny folk (ME!) in general and her in particular!
Ladies; pleas skip my Jarhead talk ;here
HEY LEFTIST WA EX KISS MY ASS!
I never liked “Bush Republicans” still fo not like!
Wonder Woman hurry!
What’s the rush?
“As with all things government related I do not expect dragons to be slain, ”
Very true. In fact I believe they have assessed the situation and their only course of action is exposure.