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Washington – Democrats will select their new heads of the Chamber’s supervisory committee on Tuesday, a legislator who will play an essential role in the investigation into President Donald Trump and his administration at the following congress if the party takes control of the Chamber in the mid -term elections of 2026.
It is a very competitive race for four for the first democratic place to the government surveillance and reform committee, without a clear precursor.
But the race was broken down along the generational lines, with two younger people in their forties in the running for work against two experienced septuagenarians of the committee. And it comes In the midst of concerns of some party members who Aging democrats I do not have energy or tactical capacities to face Trump in such a hyperchargated political environment.
The opening of the supervisory committee occurred after the representative Gerry Connolly, D-VA., Died of cancer at 75 years Postpone a challenge From the representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, 35, from New York, for the position of member of the ranking.
The four democratic legislators who run this time are: the representative Stephen Lynch, 70, from Massachusetts, the current member of the acting classification of the Panel; Representative Kweisi Mfume, 76, from Maryland, main member of the panel and former president of NAACP; Representative Robert Garcia, 47, of California, who was previously the first Latino and the first openly gay mayor of Long Beach; And the representative Jasmine Crockett, 44, of Texas, a former lawyer for civilian and rising star of the party.
Monday evening, the Chamber’s Directorate and Democratic Policy Committee, which is closely aligned with the minority leader Hakeem Jeffries, Dn.y., will vote to make a recommendation on who should lead the Democrats of the Supervisory Committee. Then, Tuesday morning, the full Democrat caucus will vote during a closed -closed election.
Lynch, who has been used for the congress since 2001, is the oldest of the four and received the approval of Connolly shortly before his death. Connolly had also typed Lynch to replace him as a member of the acting classification when he took leave in April.
The Massachusetts Democrat argued that there was a “experience” need in the role of leadership, especially since most of the panel members served only a few mandates in the congress.
Garcia and Crockett were both elected at Congress in 2022. Garcia, who immigrated with his mother of Peru at a young age, obtained a great boost when he was approved by the Hispanic Caucus of Congress, an influential block of voting.
MFUME and Crockett are members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), a large group of 62 members who, in the past, influenced certain leadership races. But because two of its members work, the CBC remains neutral. The CBC has also been a long -standing supporter of the seniority system for democrats, which generally promotes the most high -end member of a committee. But this point of view seems to evolve as the composition of the global changes in the Caucus said the group’s president.
“For the CBC, (seniority) remains a pillar,” said CBC president Yvette Clarke, Dn.y.,. “But I think that as the body has increasingly recent members, they look at another kind of additional matrix in terms of determinations.”
In an interview, Mfume said that he did not consider a disadvantage that two CBC members were running against each other.
“People have to remember, we are not monolithic. Never have been,” he said.
The first passage from MFUME to the Congress took place between 1987 and 1996, when he accepted work to direct the NAACP. Another Maryland Democrat, Elijah Cummings, succeeded Mfume in Congress and became president of the supervisory committee. But when Cummings died in 2019, MFUME won his former house seat.
When asked if he was the right person to face Trump, Mfume replied: “I think I’m one of the good people. I don’t think someone is the This or the thatBut … I have heard his eyes since he was in office. »»
The classification member of the supervisory committee has limited power. But if the Democrats gain control of the House in mid-term, they will hold all the Gavels of the Committee.
And one of the most powerful and most distant is the monitoring hammer. With him, the Democrats would have great authority to investigate Trump and his administration.
Crockett made a splash During her speech to the National Democrat Convention last summer, and she has a penchant to become viral during television appearances, to Committee audiences and on social networks.
More recently, she has differentiated her rivals by saying that she would continue to dismiss Trump in 2027 if she became the president of the supervisory committee, Even if it is not clear if enough Democrats in the Chamber will support this decision and that the Senate would not condemn it.
“It is not because we do not have the votes that it is normal to violate the Constitution, it is normal to violate federal law, it is normal to violate the law of the state,” said Crockett. “As, it doesn’t mean it’s okay, and I want the American people to know that I know it’s not ok.”
“And finally, when you head for the polls, you have to blame the Republicans,” she continued, “because the Republicans are those who decided to avoid their oath to the Constitution and swear their loyalty open to man in the White House.”
The 77 -year -old Democratic Representative, 77, from Florida, supports Crockett, who, according to her, has a rare ability to join voters, even in the District of Frankel Palm Beach.
“The common complaint we hear is what the Democrats do to retaliate? And she is. She is a proven fighter,” said Frankel.
“Nothing to withdraw from these other gentlemen, but I was at a meeting of the town hall with 200 people over 75,” she continued. “And what obtained the greatest applause of the night is when I said:” I support Jasmine Crockett for the surveillance chair. “People knew who she was.
