Both Lynch and Connolly previously announced their intentions to chair the committee following Cummings’ death in 2019 before dropping out of the race or losing to Maloney.Ĭonnolly’s office released a statement on Wednesday morning announcing his intention of running for the top Democratic spot on the committee. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., who chairs the panel’s government operations subcommittee, both announced their candidacies on Wednesday to succeed Maloney as chair. Stephen Lynch, D-Mass., who chairs the panel’s national security subcommittee, and Rep. Uncertainty following the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision, however, has upended prognosticating about the political makeup of the 118th Congress. Current polling suggests that Republicans are poised to take control of the House, and such an outcome would make the committee’s next top Democrat the ranking member. Committee leaders are selected internally by their fellow lawmakers. Maloney’s primary loss now sets off a race between lawmakers on the Oversight Committee to see who will succeed her as the panel’s top Democrat.
“Under her leadership, the committee has taken on special interests-from the gun lobby to Big Pharma to the financial sector and more-to fight for the people’s interest.” “At the helm of the powerful Committee on Oversight and Reform, Chairwoman Maloney has worked to honor our Founder’s vision of checks and balances: leading the Congress’s charge against corruption, corporate greed and abuses of power,” Pelosi said. In a statement, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., praised Maloney for her “tenacious leadership” while in Congress. “So I’d expect them to make a big push with the limited legislative time we have left this Congress to get some of the things that are priorities of hers across the finish line.” “She’s still got a couple of things to finish up, like the FISMA legislation and some of the other stuff the committee has been focused on,” Hettinger said. Mike Hettinger, the founding principal of Hettinger Strategy Group and a former staff director of the Oversight Committee’s Government Operations Subcommittee, said it was disappointing Maloney lost her bid for reelection, but added that she will be leaving behind a strong legacy in Congress-both with what she’s done, and also with what she will likely help accomplish before the end of her term. And she has also championed legislation to protect the decennial U.S. As chairwoman, she introduced legislation to strengthen the Federal Information Security Management Act to better enable federal agencies to respond to and prepare for cyber threats, pressed Amazon to turn over documents regarding its labor practices and launched an investigation into the impact of misinformation on U.S. Maloney has focused on a wide range of issues as chair of the committee, from efforts to curtail conflicts of interest in the government contracting process to oversight of the Trump administration. Neither Maloney's congressional office or campaign responded to Nextgov's request for comment by the time of publication.
Maloney became the first woman to chair the Oversight Committee-which has broad authority to investigate “any matter” covered by other standing committees-following the death of then-Chairman Elijah Cummings, D-Md., in 2019. Nadler, who chairs the House Judiciary Committee, was ahead of Maloney 55% to 24% as of Wednesday afternoon with 95% of the votes tabulated, according to the Associated Press. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., after a chaotic redistricting process forced the two incumbents into New York’s newly court-drawn 12th Congressional District. The 76-year-old Maloney, who was first elected to the House in 1992, lost re-election to Rep. She will leave behind a long legislative legacy that includes tackling a host of key government transparency and contracting issues when she departs at the end of the 117th Congress-as well as a prized vacancy atop one of the most powerful House panels. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., the chairwoman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, lost her bid for a sixteenth term during Tuesday’s New York Democratic primary.
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