In two phone chats after Democrats won the House in the midterm election, Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell and likely House speaker Nancy Pelosi broached the subject of bipartisanship—or as McConnell put it, “ways we might be able to find a way forward.”
There aren't many. Vengeful House Democrats would rather make life miserable for President Trump by investigating his entire administration. They figure the most effective way to go after the Trump team is to abuse them with subpoenas followed by hostile House hearings.
Elijah Cummings of Maryland, the incoming chair of the House Oversight Committee, has said he wants to know how Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner got a security clearance. And he's eager to look into the case of the two men who separately told Senate Judiciary Committee staffers they'd sexually assaulted Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who alleged Brett Kavanaugh had been her attacker.
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