ADBoth Connolly and Speier have been noticeably more involved in the impeachment probe than Maloney, who chairs a Financial Services subcommittee. That recommendation will ultimately be subject to a vote of the full House Democratic caucus. Whoever inherits Cummings’s gavel will also inherit the Oversight Committee staff, which is considered the engine of the panel’s investigative work. “The work of the Committee on Oversight and Reform will continue uninterrupted despite our heavy hearts — as Chairman Cummings would have wanted,” she said in a statement released Monday. “We will continue to pursue the impeachment inquiry with vigor in support of the investigation led by the Intelligence Committee.”AD

Source: Washington Post October 21, 2019 18:40 UTC