House Speaker Pelosi announced the names of 7 Democratic House members who will sit on a select committee to oversee the White House’s administration of $3 trillion in relief funds by AndrewSolender
last Thursday, it will be chaired by House Majority Whip James Clyburn, D-S.C., a former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus.
Joining him are Oversight Committee Chair Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., Financial Services Committee Chair Maxine Waters, D-Calif., and Small Business Committee Chair Nydia Velasquez, D-N.Y., who was given aOther appointments include Bill Foster, D-Ill., a member of the Committees on Financial Services and Science, Space & Technology, Oversight Committee member Jamie Raskin, D-Md., and freshman Andy Kim., D-N.J., a member of the Small Business Committee.
Republican leader Kevin McCarthy has not yet said which members of his caucus will serve on the committee, having previously he wanted to wait to see who Pelosi appoints, but Pelosi said “we’ve been in communication,” and hopes the GOP’s members will be named soon.that the committee “is about waste fraud and abuse, and making sure the money goes where it’s supposed to go,” adding “the committee will ensure that the coronavirus response puts working families first.
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