Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) speaks at the Democratic National Convention in August. Photo: Jacek Boczarski/Anadolu via Getty Images
🔎 Rep. Jamie Raskin, the Democrats' top investigator in the House, has a pretty clear idea of what probes his committee will pursue if Democrats retake the House majority, Axios has learned.
🥊 Committee leaders such as Raskin (D-Md.) are likely to have significant power to pursue their agendas if House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-Md.) becomes speaker, senior Democratic sources tell Axios.
Raskin is particularly well positioned as his panel, the House Oversight Committee, gradually has become the House's go-to investigative body.
🏎️ Driving the news: Raskin told Axios in an interview that Democrats would "probably have a pretty good start based on everything we've been asking the Republicans to look into, that they refuse to do."
That includes hearings on longstanding policy issues such as gun control, climate change and Supreme Court ethics, with the goal of persuading the public of the merits of policy action, he said.
Raskin said he also would likely pursue Trump-focused investigations.
💰 Those could include the business dealings of the former president's son-in-law Jared Kushner and Trump's business operations when he was in the White House, to help craft anti-corruption legislation.
