Scoop: Raskin plots House Dems' 2025 probes

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Source: Axios

3 hours ago


Rep. Jamie Raskin, the Democrats' top investigator in the House, already has a pretty clear idea of what probes his committee will pursue if his party retakes the House majority, Axios has learned.

Why it matters: Committee leaders such as Raskin (D-Md.) are likely to have significant power to pursue their agendas if House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-Md.) becomes speaker, senior Democratic sources tell Axios.

Raskin is particularly well positioned as his panel, the House Oversight Committee, gradually has become the House's go-to investigative body.

Driving the news: Raskin told Axios in an interview that Democrats would "probably have a pretty good start based on everything we've been asking the Republicans to look into, that they refuse to do."

That includes hearings on longstanding policy issues such as gun control, climate change and Supreme Court ethics, with the goal of persuading the public of the merits of policy action, he said.

Raskin said he also would likely pursue Trump-focused investigations.

Those could include issues such as the business dealings of former President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner and Trump's business operations when he was in the White House, to help craft anti-corruption legislation.

Zoom out: Jeffries is known as a delegator who gives broad leeway to his leadership team, putting Raskin in position to have considerable authority.

One House Democrat familiar with Jeffries' leadership style predicted the Democratic leader would be "engaged" with his committee leads, but "not like a top-down, 'Here's what you could do,' " way.

"He would strategize with them. I don't get the sense that he would dictate, but he would also help them along," the lawmaker said.

Sources stressed, however, that Jeffries has not been closely engaged with planning for a potential Democratic majority and is instead squarely focused on winning races in the 2024 election.

Read more: https://www.axios.com/2024/09/15/house-democrats-raskin-investigations-oversight

[chicoescuela]

1. Investigate Jared? Be still my heart

[NNadir]

2. Counting and chickens and hatching and all that notwithstanding, I'm very encouraged to hear this.

I suspect and hope Kamala is going to win big and have big coat tails.

[Raven123]

3. I prefer we focus on winning the House. Save these discussions till then

[orthoclad]

7. Having something to look forward to motivates voters,

more than "The other guy is a monster. Send money."

[mahina]

4. Plots, twice in a week. Republicans plan, but evidently we plot

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

5. I want Nuremberg style hearings on the response of the Trump administration to Covid

A million unnecessary dead deserve a hearing and justice.

[johnnyfins]

6. This.

[John Shaft]

8. That would be a necessary step for this country to ATTEMPT to START healing

there has to be atonement for January 6 as well: not just the low-hanging fruit (the average nobodies who are getting prison sentences), but the orchestrators and ringleaders need to be punished in a very hostile and public way. They need to be incarcerated.

ANNNNNND . . . I will sit here and hold my breath, because IT AIN'T GONNA HAPPEN.