The race to replace Rep. Gerry Connolly as the top Democrat on the Oversight and Reform Committee is fully on.
Hours after Rep. Robert Garcia announced his candidacy for the ranking member spot on Thursday, Rep. Stephen Lynch followed suit.
“I am well-prepared to manage an extremely talented group of Oversight Democrats as we fight like hell against every action taken by the Trump Administration to curtail individual rights, dismantle our democratic institutions and unload the costs of reckless economic plans onto the backs of America’s workers and vulnerable communities,” Lynch wrote in a letter to his colleagues.