Congressional committees to scrutinize U.S. killing of boat strike survivors

[ShazzieB]

10. ALL congressional and Senate committees are Republican-led right now.

First of all, congressional committes are always chaired by a member of the majority party. That's what "Republican-led" means. However, each committee also includes a leader from the other party (called the "ranking member" ) and members from both parties. The announcements from both the House and Senate committees came from both the chair (GOP) and the ranking member (Democratic). In other words, these are bipartisan announcements.

Second, if the goal was just to protect Schlump, why open an investigation at all? No one can make them do that. I'd like to think that even Republicans (at least SOME of them) have a limit as to what they're willing to go along with, and that it's just barely possible that some of them may be reaching it, especially with the midterm ele lions drawing closer every day.

I'm in favor of keeping an open mind and waiting to see what happens. If that makes me a cockeyed optimist, so be it.