118th Congress
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The Republicans’ Agenda for Their House Majority:
‘A Path of Pettiness’
Dec. 1, 2022, 12:19 p.m. ET
To the Editor:
Re “New House Leaders as the Republicans Prepare to Take Over” (news article, Nov. 26):
House Republicans, newly emboldened by the majority they barely achieved in the recent midterm elections, have wasted no time in enthusiastically embracing a counterproductive and vindictive agenda, frivolously targeting the Biden administration, with plans to give high priority to impeachment and investigations of the pandemic, immigration, Afghanistan and the president’s son as soon as the new Congress is sworn in.
Denied support in the midterms by an electorate that voted to reject extremism, the new Republican House majority is now bent on punishing an administration that has been successful in restoring domestic stability and our standing internationally, and has made substantial gains in rescuing the country from the chaos it inherited.
Marginalizing the urgent work of Congress that affects the lives of most Americans — which includes taking action on debt, prescription drug prices, the economy and gun control — congressional Republicans instead are poised to shamelessly follow a path of pettiness and irrelevance in their unprincipled quest to placate a far-right base.
Expending energy and time on investigations and impeachments by vindictive Republicans to score political points is a deliberate distraction from their inability to offer a legislative agenda with real-life benefits.
Roger Hirschberg
South Burlington, Vt.