House Republicans Begin Investigations Into President Biden

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🗓️ 2 February 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

The House Oversight and Judiciary committees, helmed by Repulican representatives James Comer of Kentucky and Jim Jordan of Ohio, will be the venues for a series of investigations into the President Joe Biden's administration and personal life. The party campaigned on an aggressive use of the legislature's oversight.

This episode: political correspondent Susan Davis, congressional correspondent Claudia Grisales, and congressional correspondent Deirdre Walsh.

This episode was produced by Elena Moore and Casey Morell. It was edited by Eric McDaniel. Our executive producer is Muthoni Muturi. Research and fact-checking by Devin Speak.

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0:00.0	This is Chris snowshoeing through the Italian Alps for his last week of his holiday.
0:08.6	This podcast was recorded at 1.42pm on Thursday, February 2nd.
0:14.0	Things may have changed by the time you listen, but Alps still be walking down this hill.
0:22.0	Enjoy the show!
0:23.5	I like the sound of Italy.
0:27.7	I'm not sure how I feel about the Alps to be honest.
0:30.7	The food.
0:31.7	The food.
0:32.7	Hey there, it's the MPR Politics Podcast from Susan Davis, I cover politics.
0:36.7	I'm Claudio Grisa, I like to cover Congress.
0:38.8	And I'm dear Drew Walsh, I also cover Congress.
0:41.0	And this week, House Republicans began the first set of hearings of many many hearings planned
0:46.6	into the Biden administration and Democrats.
0:49.9	So Claudio, you have been covering these investigations and where Republicans would like
0:54.6	to take them.
0:55.6	Take a step back and give us the big picture here.
0:58.1	Right, we have two figures at the center of these probes that Republicans are leading.
1:03.4	That's Jim Jordan of Ohio leading the Judiciary Panel and James Comer of Kentucky leading
1:07.9	the House Oversight Committee.
1:09.8	They're both meeting regularly.
1:11.4	I talked to Comer about this on a recent afternoon.
1:13.9	He said he and Jordan just had breakfast that morning and that's the way it's going
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