Republicans aren’t rushing to fill an empty seat on the House Intelligence Committee that has been vacant for months, even as Congress grapples with potential foreign interference in the upcoming elections
Other Republicans on the panel, who have begun attending the committee’s limited closed-door sessions in recent weeks — including briefings from the Trump administration on election security threats and intelligence reports that Russia offered bounties to Taliban-linked militants to kill U.S. troops in Afghanistan —
“And you tell me how much Intel work they were doing during impeachment and the last three years? Give me a break,” he added. Speculation has run rampant about who might get the seat, according to sources on both sides of the aisle, with names rising and falling as the game of musical chairs has dragged on for months. At one point, there was even the possibility that Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, a top ally of the president who temporarily served on the committee during Trump’s impeachment hearings and is now the top Republican on Judiciary, might somehow return.
Then-Rep. John Ratcliffe is sworn in before a Senate Intelligence Committee nomination hearing on Capitol Hill in May. | Andrew Harnik-Pool/Getty Images Outside of the Judiciary Committee, Rep. Liz Cheney , chair of the House Republican Conference and a vocal foreign policy hawk, has also been mentioned as a potential candidate for Intel, though that was before her colleagues accused her of undermining Trump’s administration for criticizing its response to the coronavirus and foreign policy decisions during a recent closed-door meeting.
Historically, the panel has attracted lawmakers who want to do serious intelligence work; committee members deal with the nation’s most closely-held secrets and most often meet in secure classified settings, away from the glare of the C-SPAN cameras.
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