Punchbowl News: “The House Republican Steering Committee has finished selecting chairs for the 119th Congress. And this will come as a shock to no one, but we have some thoughts about what happened.”
“The steering committee selected a lot of white men to lead panels across the Capitol. Of the 16 elected committee chairs, 15 of them are white men. The only exception is Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL), whose maternal grandparents immigrated from Mexico.”
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