All the leading contenders to take up chairmanship of the House Foreign Affairs Committee next year vowed that investigations into Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s alleged misdeeds at the State Department would continue regardless of the results of next month’s presidential election, setting the stage for protracted investigations into the Trump administration’s handling of U.S. foreign policy.
The three contenders to head the powerful panel—Reps. Gregory Meeks of New York, Brad Sherman of California, and Joaquin Castro of Texas—all pledged to extend oversight requests in a bid to fix what ails the State Department, which has been plagued by plummeting morale, attrition of career officials, alleged misuse of official resources, and charges of increasing politicization at the highest ranks. Their three-way race won’t be decided until January, assuming the Democrats maintain control of the House of Representatives, as polls suggest.
