Dec. 8, 2022: The simmering race to protect Biden on the Hill

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🗓️ 8 December 2022

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Summary

The battle to become President Joe Biden's top defender on Capitol Hill is on. With Republicans sharpening their investigative knives for Biden (this week, House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy released a list of more than a dozen lines of inquiry into the administration), the race to succeed outgoing Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) as the top Dem on the House Oversight Committee raging at a fever pitch. Who will it be? Plus, deputy editor Zack Stanton chats with Daniel Lippman's major investigation into the conduct of No Labels, the centrist group that has embarked on an ambitious $70 million project laying the groundwork for a unity ticket presidential campaign in 2024. But the story is different inside the walls of the organization. “Interviews with 14 former employees — including five who left in the last few months — and four other people familiar with No Labels reveals a cutthroat culture, one where staffers are routinely fired or pushed out, have little trust in management, and believe the workplace environment can be difficult for minority and female colleagues."

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0:00.0	presented by Black Rock.
0:02.3	Good morning, Playbookers.
0:04.1	I'm Ragu Monovalon. It's Thursday.
0:06.3	The race for Top Dem on the House Oversight Committee heats up,
0:09.4	plus an investigation into no labels.
0:12.6	It's your Politico Playbook Daily briefing.
0:17.6	The battle to become President Joe Biden's top defender on Capitol Hill is on, with Republicans salivating, as they sharpen their investigative knives for Biden, the race to succeed outgoing Representative Carolyn Maloney, as the top dem on the House Oversight Committee is raging at a fever pitch.
0:34.8	Here's the question, who will it be?
0:36.5	While Representative Stephen Lynch is technically next in line in seniority and is running for the job,
0:42.5	most Democrats think the jockeying for the position is down to two outspoken, well-known,
0:47.5	and well-respected bulls who've thrown their hats into the ring, Jerry Connolly and Jamie Raskin.
0:52.9	And the race has become a bit contentious.
0:55.8	You can catch the breakdown of each of their cases in today's playbook, but here's why
0:59.8	the race is worth paying attention to. With Biden, expected to mount a re-election campaign in
1:05.1	the coming months, House Republicans will aim to use their majority to control the narrative
1:09.3	and populate the media with stories about miried investigations into the administration, all aimed at causing
1:15.5	maximum damage to the president's 2024 hopes.
1:18.9	Just think way back when, when chairs Darrell Issa, Jason Chaffetz, and later Trey Gowdy,
1:23.6	leveraged their positions to probe the IRS's treatment of Tea Party groups, the 2012 terrorist
1:28.5	attack at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, and Hillary Clinton's use of a private email
1:33.5	server. The next oversight rinker will be taking on not only incoming chair James Comer, but also
1:38.7	people like Jim Jordan, who will lead any impeachment efforts from his perch atop the judiciary
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