House Oversight Committee adopts GOP authorization and oversight plan after heated debate over Musk, inspectors general and decorum

The House Committee on Oversight and Reform on Monday approved a Republican-authored authorization and oversight plan for the 119th Congress, adopting an amendment in the nature of a substitute offered by Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) by recorded vote.

The plan will set the committee's priorities for the new Congress, including sections the majority described as targeting lapses in expiring authorizations, preventing waste, fraud and abuse, federal workforce oversight, cybersecurity and data privacy, government contracting and grant reform, oversight of the United States Postal Service, and federal disaster response and recovery. "I urge my colleagues to vote yes on this comprehensive plan for oversight," Chairman James Comer said as he offered the amendment in the nature of a substitute.

Ranking Member Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) said the majority's proposal was "exhibit A of the majority's unilateral retreat from Article I of the Constitution" and announced he would offer his own…