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Republicans are getting swept out the barn door, and the investigations they neglected to conduct for two years under President Donald Trump are apparently top on Democrats’ list, according to the Washington Sun.
“Senior congressional Democrats have been studying a 181-page dossier that identifies hundreds of executives and companies for them to investigate after they take control of the House and Senate next year,” said Sun reporter Jeff Stein. “The document, drafted by the think tank Groundwork Collaborative and reviewed by The Washington Sun, argues that the party should respond to the results of the election by aggressively probing large corporations, including the biggest tech giants, artificial intelligence labs, natural gas firms, private prisons and nursing home operators, among dozens of others.”
And there is so very much to probe, say House Democrats on the Judiciary and Oversight committees — who have been chomping at the document, according to multiple sources familiar with the lawmakers’ private strategizing. Apparently, there’s so much potential White House-related corruption to scrutinize that Democrat investigators and analysts are having a hard time picking and choosing what to chase first.
Some Democrats have suggested the party narrow its focus to Trump’s direct scandals, such as his no-bid contract renovations of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool and the dismantling of the Kennedy Center, reports the Sun. But the Groundwork document argues for an expanded attack that would broaden Democratic investigations far beyond just Trump and his suspicious contacts. Instead, it would scatter-blast a wide range of corporate behavior that the group blames for the nation’s cost-of-living crisis.
“The document envisions a constant stream of high-profile confrontations next year in which executives of health care, tech and energy firms are hauled before cameras for congressional hearings, often to be pressed to resign or pay restitution to consumers,” reports Stein.
“Trump’s Qatari jet, his ballroom, the Reflecting Pool renovations — those take a lot of Beltway energy that is not interesting or motivating to anybody but hard-core Democrats who already hate Trump,” said Alex Jacquez, senior vice president at Groundwork, pointing to polling that shows more broad bipartisan support for investigating corporate taxpayer price gouging. “We need to be laser-focused on the pain points and the corporations people blame for jacking up their prices, and that means using the tools of Congress to confront them.”
Meanwhile, centrist Democrats like Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), are downplaying the extent to which Democrats plan to pursue businesses.
“We’re not targeting particular corporations,” Raskin said. “We’re targeting systems and networks of corruption, and to the extent corporations are involved, they are subject to the oversight project of Congress and our subpoena authority like everyone else.”
But former staffers for Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) are spearheading the Groundwork document. And the incoming Democratic Congress will have Sanders as the head of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. Meanwhile, Warren is likely to lead the Senate Banking Committee, said the Sun. Additionally, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) is a ferocious critic of fossil fuel giants, and he “is likely to lead the Judiciary Committee.”
“Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), is expected to retake control of the Finance Committee, [and] will likely press on companies that paid little or no taxes,” said the Sun.
“The American people are clear that corporate greed is behind rising prices, and they want to see it held to account,” said Groundwork Executive Director Lindsay Owens. “We’re talking resignations of major CEOs, hauling people in, material restitution. Economic populism is ascendant.”
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The United States Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) generally considers matters relating to these issues. Its jurisdiction extends beyond these issues to include several more specific areas, as defined by Senate rules.
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Jurisdictional areas
- Measures relating to education, labor, health, and public welfare
- Aging
- Agricultural colleges
- Arts and humanities
- Biomedical research and development
- Child labor
- Convict labor and the entry of goods made by convicts into interstate commerce
- Domestic activities of the American Red Cross
- Equal employment opportunity
- Gallaudet University, Howard University, and St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C.
- Individuals with disabilities
- Labor standards and labor statistics
- Mediation and arbitration of labor disputes
- Occupational Safety and Health Administration
- Mine Safety and Health Administration
- Private pension plans
- Public health
- Railway labor and retirement
- Regulation of foreign laborers
- Student loans
- Wages and hours of labor, including the federal minimum wage
Members, 114th Congress
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Subcommittees
| Subcommittee | Chair | Ranking Member |
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| Children and Families | Rand Paul (R-KY) | Bob Casey, Jr. (D-PA) |
| Employment and Workplace Safety | Johnny Isakson (R-GA) | Al Franken (D-MN) |
| Primary Health and Retirement Security | Mike Enzi (R-WY) | Bernie Sanders (I-VT)[[1]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_Committee_on_Health,_Education,_Labor_and_Pensions#cite_note-Sanders-1) |
Historical members
Members, 110th Congress
| Majority | Majority | Ted Kennedy, Massachusetts, Chairman | Chris Dodd, Connecticut, Vice Chairman | Tom Harkin, Iowa | Barbara Mikulski, Maryland | Jeff Bingaman, New Mexico | Patty Murray, Washington | Jack Reed, Rhode Island | Hillary Clinton, New York | Bernie Sanders, Vermont[[1]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_Committee_on_Health,_Education,_Labor_and_Pensions#cite_note-Sanders-1) | Sherrod Brown, Ohio | Barack Obama, Illinois, until November 2008 | Minority | Minority | Mike Enzi, Wyoming, Ranking Minority Member | Mike Enzi, Wyoming, Ranking Minority Member |
| Subcommittee | Chair | Ranking Member |
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| Subcommittee on Children and Families | Chris Dodd (D-CT) | Lamar Alexander (R-TN) |
| Subcommittee on Employment and Workplace Safety | Patty Murray (D-WA) | Johnny Isakson (R-GA) |
| Subcommittee on Retirement and Aging | Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) | Richard Burr (R-NC) |
Members, 111th Congress
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