It’s a normal day on the House floor when the top Democrat and Republican on the House Oversight Committee are yelling. It’s not normal that they’re on the same side and what they’re yelling about is a post office.
On Wednesday, amid all the topics that Oversight Chair James Comer and ranking Democrat on the committee Jamie Raskin could be spiritedly discussing on the House floor — investigations into Joe Biden, the Hunter Biden pardon, Donald Trump, the president-elect’s controversial nominees, continuing resolution negotiations, sweeping reconciliation bills, disaster aid, a farm bill extension or any other number of topics — it was a bill to name a Corpus Christi post office after Captain Robert E. “Bob” Batterson that had the two men hot and bothered.
“That’s causing a lot of rancor,” Raskin said. “It’s causing a lot of division. We don’t want this whole thing to blow up.”