The new sheriff of the Biden presidency

Move over Mitch McConnell. Another Kentuckian is about to become the primary thorn in the side of the president for the next two years.

The primary feature of the new 118th Congress will be investigatory.

With the House and Senate in the hands of different parties and the 2024 White House campaign expected to commence by spring, the most significant action in Washington will be probing the first two years of the Biden administration.

Why was the pullout from Afghanistan so haphazardly organized? How did government health officials determine evolving Covid-19 policies? Why is the migrant flow over the Southern border seemingly uncontrollable? Why did you leave classified documents in your garage?

Those are just a few of the questions House Republicans will hit.

Oh yes, and Hunter Biden, the laptop from hell and foreign business dealings due to family ties. You’ll likely hear more about that than anything else. TV won’t be able to resist.

There will be many committees with their gavels out, but there’s one in particular which will wield the most sway and earn the most attention, primarily because its sole purpose is to investigate and attempt to reform.

This year, the House Oversight and Accountability Committee is headed by Kentucky Rep. James Comer, an affable but previously unknown member whose name has already rapidly become synonymous with the GOP opposition to the Biden administration.

My profile for McClatchyDC charts Comer’s rise, the immediate rewards and long-term risks of his newfound power and how his colleagues view him differently from previous high-profile Oversight chairmen, like Jim Jordan, Jason Chaffetz and Trey Gowdy.

A key set of graphs below . . .

Read the whole thing HERE.