Lauren Boebert Receives Spot on House Oversight Committee

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO), oThe final holdouts are eliminated. Kevin McCarthy’s (R-CA bid for House speaker, was awarded a spot on House Oversight Committee Tuesday

The Republican won her seat in Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District by narrow margin in November. She will now sit on a panel that is already preparing for investigations into the Biden administration. The chair of the committee is Rep. James Comer (R–KY) is probing President Joe BidenThe handling of classified documents.

Boebert was one of the many firebrand Republicans that were elected to the committee. Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) Paul Gosar (R-AZ), who were stripped from their committee assignments during the last Congress, also received spots on this panel.

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The House GOP Steering Committee was made up of 30 House leaders and determined that the Colorado Republican will return to the House Natural Resources Committee. Boebert finally conceded to McCarthy’s bid after four days of resisting it. “present,” Hard-liners claimed that the GOP leader’s concessions were unacceptable. “massive victory” For the public.

“We changed the way bills will be passed,” Boebert said this in a release last week. “We changed the way the government will be funded. We have changed the way committees are formed.”

Boebert’s new role is one that was created after McCarthy detractors became frustrated with the speaker battle. Rep. Mike Rogers (R-AL), at one point, reportedly suggested denying committee assignments for those who refused to vote McCarthy.

Although the House GOP leadership finally reached an agreement with McCarthy holdouts which resulted in his election, they insist that no one was promised any specific committee assignments in return. Reps. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) Chip Roy (R-TX) said they asked the House speaker for more conservative representation on top committees.

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Last week, House Majority leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) According to the agreement “making sure that our committees are represented by a whole swath of our membership” During a conference.

Due to the House’s slim majority, Boebert is likely to receive little resistance from GOP leadership. The Colorado congresswoman was elected in 2020 for the first time and won reelection 2022.

This Trump-loyalist and ardent Trump defender has been a prominent member of the House Freedom Caucus. She is also known for her right-wing rhetoric and incendiary remarks. Boebert regularly appears on conservative cable news and podcasts and has been known to pick fights with Democrats and, more recently, members of her own party.

She was notable for interrupting Biden’s State of the Union address last year when he was speaking about veterans and his oldest son, Beau, a former National Guard member who died of brain cancer in 2015. Boebert could be heard shouting “13 of them,” This is a reference to those service personnel who were killed in the last days of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.