Rep. Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ), who sits on the House Oversight Committee chaired by Rep. James Comer (R-KY), revealed this week that Democrats plan to launch a barrage of investigations into DHS and ICE if and when they achieve a House majority in a midterm surge. The Congresswoman offered assurances to critics on the Left who castigate Democrats for what they view as a habit of bringing knives to a proverbial gunfight.
“There is so much we can do and so much we will do,” Ansari said in the interview below. She added: “We have a list of subpoenas that are ready to go for people that need to come before Congress and testify from [Homeland Security Advisor] Stephen Miller to [DHS Secretary] Kristi Noem.“
Ansari then gave out information about an ICE tracker set up on the website of the Oversight Democrats, telling people it was a repository so “when the time comes for accountability and prosecutions, we have a database of violations we can look at.”
Ansari: We have a list of subpoenas ready to go from Kristi Noem to Stephen Miller pic.twitter.com/YGpmrqYYrq
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Republicans in the House currently control the committees through their slim majority, and committee chairs like Comer (Oversight) and Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan (Judiciary) have used these powerful positions to initiate what critics characterize as politically motivated attacks in the form of investigations — much of it fueled by subpoena power.
[NOTE: A recent example that reverberated in Washington and beyond is Comer’s demand through a subpoena issued in August that former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton testify before the committee concerning the Epstein files. The committee voted to hold both Clintons in contempt for failure to comply with the subpoenas, and negotiations continue to arrange what would be the unprecedented deposition of a former president.]
Democrats who watched powerless as Comer and Jordan used their chairs to launch unremitting attacks on Joe Biden and the so-called “Biden crime family” during Biden’s presidential term — a tactic that produced no significant charges but which damaged Biden politically and dominated news cycles — seem eager for the fight this time.
Another subject the Democrats look increasingly determined to investigate, if they emerge from November’s elections with a majority, is the continuing Epstein files saga.
This push, already popular with the public — and with some Republicans like Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie — was given new fuel by Wednesday’s revelation that the Epstein files release compelled by congressional vote was missing what the New York Times described as “key materials related to a woman who made an accusation” against Donald Trump.