Valin Posted January 12, 2019 Share Posted January 12, 2019 Washington Free Beacon Nic Rowan January 11, 2019 House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Eliot Engel (D., N.Y.) announced he will eliminate the terrorism subcommittee in favor a new subcommittee dedicated to investigating President Donald Trump. "We just thought, if we’re going to do something relevant in this era where Congress is going to reassert itself, where there are so many questionable activities of this Administration vis-à-vis foreign policy, that it made sense to have this," Engel told the New Yorker. The terrorism subcommittee was created after the 9/11 terror attacks to overseer U.S. "efforts to manage and coordinate international programs to combat terrorism," according to past committee rules. According to Engel, when he proposed the new turn, there "wasn't a great clamor" to keep the terrorism subcommittee in the new Democrat-controlled Foreign Affairs Committee. Engel said he plans to investigate Trump's private meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin, as well as "the business interests of the President" and how much Trump's financial dealings have "affected what he’s done in foreign policy." This is an unusual turn for the Foreign Affairs Committee, which generally considers legislation and holds hearings on foreign policy, not individuals' dealings with other individuals. (Snip) _________________________________________________________________________________ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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