House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has named GOP members for Majority Whip Jim Clyburn's coronavirus select committee, ending a partisan stalemate over the panel
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has finally named GOP members for Majority Whip Jim Clyburn's coronavirus select committee, ending a partisan stalemate over the panel.
Some Republicans had urged McCarthy to boycott the panel, arguing it would just validate the Democratic-led effort. But ultimately, GOP leadership decided it was better to have a seat at the table where they could mount a vigorous defense of Trump. They've also repeatedly attacked Speaker Nancy Pelosi's choice of Clyburn to head the panel, claiming the veteran South Carolina Democratic lawmaker is too openly political to handle the post, although Democrats reject that assertion as misguided.
And McCarthy has created his own "China task force" to look into a number of China-related issues, including the origin of the coronavirus pandemic.
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