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Farmland is seen with solar panels from Cypress Creek Renewables, Oct. 28, 2021, in Thurmont, Md. The Commerce Department says it is investigating whether imports of solar panels from Southeast Asia are circumventing anti-dumping rules that block imports from China. The decision could dramatically reduce solar imports to the U.S. and undercut President Joe Biden’s ambitious climate goals. Clean energy leaders said the investigation could lead to thousands of layoffs in the domestic solar industry and imperil up to 80% of planned solar projects in the U.S. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez) **FILE**

House Republicans sound alarm over Chinese investment in U.S. farmland

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

House Committee on Oversight and Reform committee Ranking Member Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., speaks during a hearing on voting rights in Texas on July 29, 2021, in Washington. Kentucky's top Republican lawmakers want to extend an oddly shaped congressional district to add Democratic-leaning Frankfort to the solidly red 1st District in an apparent effort to shore up another district that for decades has swung between both parties. The likely beneficiary would be 6th District GOP Rep. Andy Barr, the only incumbent Kentucky congressman to face a tough reelection campaign in recent years. The other affected congressmen is Republican James Comer. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Rep. James Comer: Evidence piling up to show Hunter Biden ‘guilty of everything’

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

House Oversight Committee Ranking Member Rep. James Comer Jr., R-Ky., listens during a hearing on the Washington Commanders' workplace conduct, Wednesday, June 22, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Rep. Comer requests oversight hearing as migrant deaths, border crossings rise

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser, left, and Washington Metropolitan Police Chief Robert Contee III, speak during a news conference about the arrest of suspect in a recent string of attacks on homeless people, Tuesday, March 15, 2022, in Washington. A gunman suspected of stalking homeless people asleep on the streets of New York City and Washington, killing at least two people and wounding three others, was arrested early Tuesday, police said. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) ** FILE **

House Republicans warn D.C. spiking crime rate may warrant congressional intervention

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

House Oversight Committee Ranking Member Rep. James Comer Jr., R-Ky., listens during a hearing on the Washington Commanders' workplace conduct, Wednesday, June 22, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Rep. James Comer vows House’s ‘Redskins’ investigation is over if Republicans win in November

By Matthew Paras - The Washington Times

House Committee on Oversight and Reform committee Ranking Member Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., speaks during a hearing on voting rights in Texas on July 29, 2021, in Washington. Kentucky's top Republican lawmakers want to extend an oddly shaped congressional district to add Democratic-leaning Frankfort to the solidly red 1st District in an apparent effort to shore up another district that for decades has swung between both parties. The likely beneficiary would be 6th District GOP Rep. Andy Barr, the only incumbent Kentucky congressman to face a tough reelection campaign in recent years. The other affected congressmen is Republican James Comer. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

House Republican questions credibility of Commanders’ ex-employee in panel’s investigation

By Matthew Paras - The Washington Times

National Guardsmen stand watch over a fence near the International bridge where thousands of Haitian migrants have created a makeshift camp, Saturday, Sept. 18, 2021, in Del Rio, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Top Republican calls for troops at border as illegal immigrant surge goes global

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

U.S. Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., looks out over the scene at Morelos Dam along the Colorado River where undocumented immigrants cross into the U.S., Tuesday, April 12, 2022. (Randy Hoeft/The Yuma Sun via AP) **FILE**

Top House GOP investigator says Biden must send active-duty troops to border

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Then-Vice President Joe Biden (left) and his son Hunter Biden appear at the Duke Georgetown NCAA college basketball game in Washington on Jan. 30, 2010. (AP Photo/Nick Wass) **FILE**

House GOP prepping investigations of Hunter Biden, Afghan pullout, COVID-19 origins

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

Security personnel manned the entrance of the Wuhan Institute of Virology during a Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021, visit by a team from the World Health Organization. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Failure to report coronavirus-experiment findings renews Wuhan lab controversy

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Migrants, many from Haiti, are seen at an encampment along the Del Rio International Bridge near the Rio Grande, Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2021, in Del Rio, Texas. The options remaining for thousands of Haitian migrants straddling the Mexico-Texas border are narrowing as the United States government ramps up to an expected six expulsion flights to Haiti and Mexico began busing some away from the border. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

GOP investigates FAA drone ban that shut down coverage of migrant camp

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Migrants, many from Haiti, are seen at an encampment along the Del Rio International Bridge near the Rio Grande, Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2021, in Del Rio, Texas. The options remaining for thousands of Haitian migrants straddling the Mexico-Texas border are narrowing as the United States government ramps up to an expected six expulsion flights to Haiti and Mexico began busing some away from the border. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

GOP investigates FAA drone ban that shut down coverage of migrant camp

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this Thursday July 29, 2021, photo, Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., the House Committee on Oversight and Reform's ranking member, speaks during a hearing on voting rights in Texas in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) **FILE**

Top House Oversight Republican doubles down on ‘IRS Snowden’ probe

By Haris Alic and Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

In this Thursday July 29, 2021, photo, Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., the House Committee on Oversight and Reform's ranking member, speaks during a hearing on voting rights in Texas in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) **FILE**

EXCLUSIVE: House GOP demands answers over $87B in improper spending on entitlements

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

In this March 30, 2021, photo, young minors lie inside a pod at the Donna Department of Homeland Security holding facility, the main detention center for unaccompanied children in the Rio Grande Valley run by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), in Donna, Texas. U.S. officials are scrambling to handle a dramatic spike in children crossing the U.S.-Mexico border alone. It's led to a massive expansion in emergency facilities to house them as more kids arrive than can be released to close relatives in the United States. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills) **FILE**

House GOP to probe Biden associate’s massive no-bid contract to hold illegal immigrant children

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this Feb. 3, 2021, file photo, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan, speaks during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Caroline Brehman/Pool via AP) ** FILE **

House Oversight Republicans demand docs on EPA’s seemingly ‘politicized’ firing of Trump appointees

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., delivers her opening statement during a House Committee on Oversight and Reform hearing on unsustainable drug prices on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2020, in Washington. (Greg Nash/Pool via AP) **FILE**

Democrats ‘silent’ as Joe Biden border surge spirals

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Minors, mostly from Guatemala, wait at a U.S. Border Patrol intake site after they were smuggled on an inflatable raft across the Rio Grande river in Roma, Texas, Wednesday, March 24, 2021. The Biden administration says that it's working to address the increase in migrants coming to the border. On Wednesday, President Joe Biden tapped Vice President Kamala Harris to lead the White House efforts at the U.S. southern border and work with Central American nations to address root causes of the migration. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)

James Comer demands Dems break silence, hold hearings on border surge

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

A fight breaks out as supporters of President Donald Trump and counter-protesters rally on Saturday, Nov. 14, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Republicans seek House hearing after pro-Trump rally in D.C. turns violent

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

Postal worker Richard Hopkins speaks to Project Veritas about the election. (Screen grab from Project Veritas video, used with permssion)

House Republicans demand USPS documents on Pa. whistleblower probe

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times