House Committee Budgets Swell as G.O.P. Plans Road Shows Across U.S.

[dalton99a]

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/05/us/politics/house-republicans-budget-travel-campaign.html
https://archive.ph/8VeB2

House Committee Budgets Swell as G.O.P. Plans Road Shows Across U.S.
Republican leaders have told their colleagues to get out of Washington for field hearings that allow the party to take their message straight to voters, a costly pursuit that can be a boon to big donors.
By Annie Karni and Catie Edmondson
March 5, 2023, 5:12 p.m. ET

WASHINGTON — When the House Ways and Means Committee traveled to Petersburg, W.Va., last month for its inaugural field hearing on “the state of the economy in Appalachia,” it met at the headquarters of a hardwood lumber manufacturer whose chief executive has donated the maximum campaign contribution allowed to a Republican member of the panel.

The logo of his company was on prominent display during the event.

When the committee descends on Yukon, Okla., this week for its second field hearing, this one on “the state of the economy in the heartland,” it will convene at Express Clydesdales, a restored barn and event space owned by a major donor to the super PAC aligned with Speaker Kevin McCarthy, the Republican National Committee, Senate Republicans’ campaign committee and former President Donald J. Trump.

The owner, the business magnate Robert Funk, has also given the maximum campaign donation allowable to another member of the panel, Representative Kevin Hern, Republican of Oklahoma, for the past three cycles.

Determined to take their message directly to voters at a time when they are hard-pressed to get anything concrete done on Capitol Hill, House Republicans are increasing the budgets of their congressional committees and going out on the road, planning a busy schedule of field hearings in all corners of the country aimed at promoting their agenda outside the Beltway.

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[Trenzalore]

1. We really aren't far from Nascar jackets with donors for contributors are we.

[Bettie]

2. So, their "fiscal responsibility" involves

holding show hearings for their big donors? I bet that costs more than hearings in the capitol.

[PortTack]

3. can hardly wait for them to take the Hunter Biden lap top, fauci, Garland show on the road!

Most ppl don’t even know who these ppl are or what it’s about. Sure thing that’ll line em to vote for the whackos