When impeachment proceedings begin this week in a new venue — the House Judiciary Committee — they won’t necessarily be a sober-minded moment in American history focused strictly on substance for many of the committee members.
Then, in October, Gaetz led a group of 50 or so House Republicans who walked uninvited into a closed-door deposition with one of the impeachment investigation witnesses. of the protest was that Democrats were conducting “secret interviews.” But this was a falsehood, since over 100 members of Congress across three different committees — nearly half of them Republicans — were able to attend the closed-door depositions.
But it’s unclear that a formal rebuke would matter to Gaetz, who represents the Florida Panhandle and has made a career of thumbing his nose at conventions. Elected just 18 months ago, he has a knack for using Congress as a platform to promote himself as an outsider. What’s unclear is whether anything of substance can be accomplished with such tactics. Jordan, 55, has been a politician for 25 years, spending a decade in the Ohio Legislature before being elected to Congress in 2006.
Jordan has already played a major role in the impeachment fight, after McCarthy moved him into a slot on the Intelligence Committee for the witness hearings. Jordan led the Republican effort, coordinating talking points and playing the role of chief press spokesman for his party. During the hearings, Jordan often made loud speeches in the form of a question, providing sound bites for Fox News and other conservative media outlets.
In addition to sitting on the Judiciary Committee, Swalwell is a permanent member of the Intelligence Committee, so he too will be a familiar face to those who watched the witness hearings. Swalwell generally refrained from histrionics during those two weeks, but he was quick to engage in confrontations with Republicans on the committee at certain points, serving as something of an enforcer for Schiff, the Intelligence chairman.
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