What the GOP House should be focused on

 National Review:

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Ideally, Congress would recover the instinct for impeaching cabinet secretaries, but with a narrow House majority and Democrats running the Senate, it should be sufficient to pass resolutions of censure following hearings. Prime targets should be those secretaries who have issued flagrantly illegal orders or refused to enforce the laws duly enacted by Congress. That includes, at a minimum, Homeland Security’s Alejandro Mayorkas, Education’s secretary Miguel Cardona, Labor’s Marty Walsh, and HHS’s Xavier Becerra. The legislative branch is overdue to exercise some outrage, on behalf of its constitutional powers, at the executive branch’s illegally arrogating to itself the power to become the nation’s doctor, landlord, and forgiver of loans.

Fourth, there should be no amnesty for Covid policy. The American people deserve an accounting, one in which no punches are pulled. They have yet to receive one. That means looking seriously into the origins of the virus in China, examining the decisions and influence of Dr. Anthony Fauci and other figures in the federal establishment, reviewing the many public decisions made without an adequate scientific basis, exposing the influence of the teachers’ unions on Biden-administration policies, and holding a public reckoning of lockdown policies, particularly in schools.

Fifth, Republicans should get to the bottom of mounting government pressures to turn private businesses into woke auxiliaries of the state. Start with social-media companies. Every government contact aimed at influencing the behavior of those companies ought to be carefully scrutinized for signs of official power’s being used to limit the freedom of speech of American citizens and the freedom of the American press. The House should also be shining the spotlight on the SEC and other federal agencies to push ESG and other leftist cultural projects through private companies.

Sixth, conduct serious oversight of money wasted abroad. That means money flows to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan; it also means looking harder at how much of our massive aid to Ukraine is being wasted or stolen.

Seventh, there is a target-rich environment in examining abuses of federal law-enforcement power and prosecutorial discretion. Some of that can be found in the efforts of the Justice Department, the SEC, and the FTC to effectively create new law by means of creative prosecutions, or in the Justice Department’s practice of suing to block every single merger, no matter how remote it is from any semblance of monopoly. This is “the process is the penalty” governance.

There are broader questions about the FBI. But this requires some caution in order that House Republicans do not simply act as defense attorneys for Donald Trump and the January 6 defendants. Russiagate, for example, is better left to be examined by Congress after the Durham report. Nor would it be productive to have a bunch of Republican members speculating without hard evidence that January 6 was an inside job or a “fed-surrection.” The real problems with the FBI are serious and commend legislative action, which will be impossible to pursue if they are framed in terms of sympathy for the Capitol rioters.
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I don't agree with waiting for the Durham investigation to get to the bottom of the Russian collusion hoax.  Those responsible for it need to be held to account by Congress as well as Durham.

They definitely should be investigating the use of social media companies as vehicles for government censorship.  Those efforts were flay wrong and they played into the hands of Democrats who used censorship as a means of covering up their own misconduct and poor judgment.

See, also:

YouTube Censored User After He Published Democrats’ 2016 ‘Stolen Election’ Claims

 YouTube deleted the video comparing Trump’s statements questioning the 2020 election results to Democrats questioning the 2016 contest.

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