The United States House of Representatives approved on Tuesday the creation of a committee to investigate the FBI and the Department of Justice, in line with the electoral promise of the Republican Party, which has criticized an alleged partisan influence on government agencies by President Joe Biden.
The Conservatives managed to stick together to make it possible for the committee to pass, with a narrow margin of 221 votes in favor to 211 against.
The Lower House resumed its activity on Monday after the weekend break after opening the new legislature on Friday with the appointment of Kevin McCarthy as speaker of the House of Representatives.
After 15 votes, McCarthy managed to convince the group of 20 “reluctant” conservatives of the Freedom Caucus that were preventing his victory, making several concessions, such as the return of a rule that allows the process to start the removal of the speaker of the House with the support of only a single congressman.
The House approved in the session this Monday the regulation by which McCarthy will be governed for the next two years and a proposal from the Republicans to eliminate the new financing for the Public Treasury that the Democrats promoted the last legislature, as part of a package of tax measures.
The bill on the Public Treasury could be rejected by the Senate, which is made up of a Democratic majority after the results of the midterm elections.
The panel to investigate the FBI and the Justice Department is expected to be chaired by Republican Jim Jordan, who is a founder of the Freedom Caucus, and an ally of former President Donald Trump, who is currently undergoing a Justice Department investigation into his role. in the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
The Biden administration will also investigate the former Republican president for keeping a large number of classified documents from his term as president at his private home in Mar-a-Lago, Florida, instead of at the National Archives.