{"id":1625685,"date":"2022-08-29T12:51:08","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T16:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1625685"},"modified":"2022-08-29T12:51:10","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T16:51:10","slug":"new-top-democrat-on-house-oversight-panel-likely-from-district-dominated-by-federal-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-top-democrat-on-house-oversight-panel-likely-from-district-dominated-by-federal-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"New Top Democrat on House Oversight Panel Likely From District Dominated by Federal Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnew-top-democrat-on-house-oversight-panel-likely-from-district-dominated-by-federal-workers%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1625685&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Regardless of who controls the House of Representatives come January 2023, the top Democrat on the powerful House Oversight and Reform Committee may well come from a district whose voters are mostly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-federal-workers\">federal workers<\/a> and contractors.<\/p>\n<p>Two of the three Democrats who quickly threw their hats into the ring following Rep. Carolyn Maloney\u2019s (D-N.Y.) loss in an Aug. 23 Democratic primary to Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) currently represent suburban Washington districts with heavy concentrations of career civil servants and government contractors.<\/p>\n<p>If as expected, Republicans flip the House and regain control, the current ranking minority member, Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), is most likely to be the new chairman. Comer has been laying the groundwork for aggressive oversight of President Joe Biden and his administration in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Gerry Connolly, the Democrat who represents Fairfax County, Virginia, was the first to announce his intentions, issuing a statement of interest within 24 hours of Maloney\u2019s loss.<\/p>\n<p>Because of his district\u2019s employment demographics, Connolly, a former chairman of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, the Democrat has made the oversight panel his top committee assignment throughout his seven terms in Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Most proposed legislation affecting federal personnel policies is referred to the oversight panel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor more than 14 years, I have made this committee my top priority and focused on the issues that define it: Postal reform; defending our proud federal employees; rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse; modernizing the federal government; and holding the Trump administration accountable,\u201d Connolly said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/connolly.house.gov\/news\/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=4584\">statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Connolly\u2019s biggest campaign contributor group in his current re-election effort is retirees, many of whom are former federal workers, while his second biggest is federal employee unions, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/members-of-congress\/gerry-connolly\/summary?cid=N00029891\">opensecrets.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Jamie Raskin, whose suburban Maryland district is, like Connolly\u2019s, dominated by federal workers and contractors, issued a Dear Colleague letter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regardless of who controls the House of Representatives come January 2023, the top Democrat on the powerful House Oversight and Reform Committee may well come from a district whose voters are mostly federal workers and contractors. Two of the three Democrats who quickly threw their hats into the ring following Rep. Carolyn Maloney\u2019s (D-N.Y.) loss [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1625685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1625685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1625685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1625685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1625685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}