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James Comer Jr.: “The Ethics Committee is now, I like the chairman of the…”

Featuring: James Comer Jr., Republican | U.S. House Kentucky, 1st Congressional District

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Published | Video Starts at 14:30

And I think that Hakeem Jeffries was the reason that the House Oversight Committee was banned from investigating Omar. But it's my understanding that The Ethics Committee is now, I like the chairman of the Ethics Committee, good friend of mine, that's a 50, 50 committee. So it's 50% Democrats, 50% Republicans. What I found in my 10 years in Congress, the Democrats, whether they're on the Ethics Committee or the Oversight Committee, the one thing they have in common, they're only interested in investigating Republicans. (14:30–14:38)

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