Pelosi Forms House Committee on Coronavirus Response

Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the creation of a special House committee charged with overseeing the unprecedented, multi-trillion dollar federal response to the coronavirus pandemic, The Hill reports.

She said the panel would be modeled on the World War II committee led by then-Sen. Harry Truman.

Pelosi tapped Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC) to lead the bipartisan panel, which will be authorized “to examine all aspects of the federal response to the coronavirus and ensure the taxpayers’ dollars are being wisely and efficiently spent.”