McCarthy won the House Speaker nomination from his colleagues, while Scalise was voted majority leader.
Even with their threadbare House majority, Republicans doubled down this week on using their new power to investigate the Biden administration and in particular the president’s son.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Even with their threadbare House majority, Republicans doubled down this week on using their new power next year to investigate the Biden administration and, in particular, the president’s son.
The Democrats retained control of the Senate, and the GOP’s margin in the House is expected to be the slimmest majority in two decades.
“These were not voters coming to the polls because they wanted Hunter Biden investigated — far from it.
But anything the House seeks related to Hunter Biden, who is not a White House staffer, will come from his attorneys, who have declined to respond to the allegations. »