Senate Republicans walked away from a briefing on the nascent impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden receptive to what the House finds next, even as some harbor concerns that Speaker Kevin McCarthy's (R-CA) decision to open the inquiry unilaterally will undermine its credibility.
Reps. James Comer and Jim Jordan , two of the three committee chairmen who will oversee the inquiry, attended a weekly lunch hosted by Sen. Mike Lee , who leads the conservative Senate Steering Committee.The Wednesday meeting did not cover much new ground, according to the senators who attended, but it did provide them an opportunity to get up to date on where the investigation stands and what House Republicans see as its next steps.
"They're trying to follow the facts and see where they lead, and they got, you know, lots of questions that need to be answered," said Sen. John Thune , the No. 2 Republican in the Senate."There's enough smoke there that I think there are legitimate questions that they need to get answers to." McCarthy's inquiry, a formal step that comes after months of legwork by the trio of House committees probing the Biden family’s business dealings, will give Republicans additional investigative powers as they build the case that Joe Biden himself was involved in the business dealings of his son Hunter Biden, who is alleged to have used the Biden"brand" to enrich himself.
"It makes me feel like they've got the right structure in place, and it has to take the time it takes to do a hell of a lot better job than the Democrats ever do," Sen. Thom Tillis , an adviser to leadership, told the Washington Examiner.
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