Do you remember Italy gate?

It was a conspiracy theory that made it all the way to the White House after the 2020 election

and claimed that somehow an Italian defense contractor had conspired with the CIA to use

military satellites to flip votes from Trump to bite.

Pennsylvania Republican Congressman Scott Perry was the one who brought that theory to the White House.

He texted former president Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and he texted him things like,

why can't we just work with the Italian government on Italy gate?

Perry was ultimately one of just four Republican members of Congress that the January 6th committee

referred to the House Ethics Committee for failing to cooperate with its investigation.

The others were California Congressman Kevin McCarthy, Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan,

and Arizona Congressman Andy Biggs.

McCarthy is obviously now the speaker of the House.

And as of tonight Perry, Jordan, and Biggs, all three of them are officially members of

the House Oversight Committee.

The committee that under its new Republican leadership has devoted itself to investigating

President Biden.

Other notable members are announced tonight are Arizona's Paul Gosar and George's Marjorie

Taylor Green, who were of course both stripped of their committee assignments last session

for posting death threats against democratic colleagues.

Also on the committee far-right conservative holdouts that fought speaker McCarthy over

his leadership like Colorado's Lauren Bobert and Florida's Anna Paulina Luna.

The new chairman of that committee has spent today going on rants on Fox News and News

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