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One giant step for a champion volleyball player: Santos boldly goes to two committee assignments [1]
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Date: 2023-01-17
A million, 142,000, or 142 people can’t be wrong. After all, “George Santos said in 2020 he helped Baruch volleyball team that 'slayed' Harvard, Yale.” Or does he have twenty-two committee assignments.
Rep. George Santos (R-NY), who has lied about virtually every aspect of his biography, has been assigned to serve on the House's Small Business Committee and the Science, Space, and Technology Committee. pic.twitter.com/dglw64Ho60
Santos tapped by top Rs for two committee spots -- Small Business and Science. Roger Williams, chairman of Small Business, told me: "I don't condone what he said, what he's done. I don't think anybody does. That's not my role. He was elected. He represents a million people." pic.twitter.com/nfP2JJnnnH
Santos’s assignment to the panels comes as multiple members of his own party have called on him to resign over his admitted fabrications about his work history and education, questions about his campaign finances, misleading claims of Jewish heritage, and reported charges in Brazil related to checkbook fraud (which Santos has denied), among other issues.
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x Just goes to show what Republicans think of Small Business. What committee assignment for George Santos..Small Business. A guy that lied about working for Goldman Sachs and Citibank, lied about having an MBA and worked at a small business that was a Ponzi scheme. Amazing. @AP pic.twitter.com/2zSoqdUQp9 — Mr. Reynolds (@MrReynolds52) January 17, 2023
Why it matters: Republicans and Democrats have called on Santos to resign, and the freshman lawmaker faces numerous investigations into his financial disclosures, campaign finances, and outstanding legal issues.
Driving the news: Santos on Tuesday got a seat on the House Committee on Small Business, a committee spokesperson confirmed, and a seat on the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, per three House Steering Committee members.
Zoom out: McCarthy, balancing a fragile House majority, previously said that Santos would receive committee assignments.
Santos has maintained that he will not give up his seat in Congress, despite public pressure to do so. "I was elected to serve the people of [New York's 3rd District] not the party & politicians, I remain committed to doing that," he tweeted on Jan. 11.
tweeted on Jan. 11. "I will NOT resign!" he added.
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"We will find a way to make him add value." - Rep. Roger Williams (R-Texas) the Republican Chair of the House Small Business Committee...“I don’t condone what he said, what he’s done. I don’t think anybody does. But that’s not my role. He was elected. He represents a million people.”
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