众议院共和党人计划授予新委员会全面的权力调查正在进行的刑事调查这项授权可能会引发与司法部和国家安全机构在敏感记录和调查方面的新斗争，包括那些涉及前总统唐纳德·特朗普.
这是根据众议院预计本周将采取的措施，作为议长凯文·麦卡锡与他的一些最保守的同事达成的协议的一部分，谁推迟了麦卡锡赢得木槌.
该决议的更新版本必须首先得到众议院的批准，并且是未来两年管理众议院的拟议规则的一部分，包括司法小组委员会的新权力，该小组委员会将调查共和党人所说的“联邦政府的武器化”。
根据决议文本，该特别小组将有权调查联邦政府的任何部门如何收集和分析美国人的信息，以及“正在进行的刑事调查”和公民自由问题。
根据该决议，该委员会还将获得仅与众议院情报委员会共享的高度机密信息，这些信息是政府最敏感的秘密，故意对几乎所有国会成员保密。
得克萨斯州共和党众议员奇普·罗伊(Chip Roy)周五在接受福克斯新闻频道采访时表示，作为麦卡锡在共和党大会上与批评者谈判的一部分，拟议中的小组委员会的授权得到了修改和扩大。
罗伊说:“我们有更多的资源，更具体，更大的权力去追赶这个桀骜不驯的拜登政府。”
民主党人担心，共和党可能会使用这种广泛的新权力，这似乎与司法部长期以来不披露正在进行的刑事调查信息的政策相冲突，以破坏对1月6日和特朗普处理机密和敏感政府文件的调查。
“吉姆·乔丹和凯文·麦卡锡声称正在调查联邦政府的武器化，而事实上，这个新的特别委员会就是武器本身，”司法委员会的最高民主党人、纽约州众议员杰里·纳德勒在一份声明中说。
“这是专门设计来将极端主义政治注入我们的司法系统，并保护MAGA运动免受其行为的法律后果，”纳德勒争辩道，称这一努力是“由阴谋论推动的鲁莽的党派活动。”
预计司法委员会主席吉姆·乔丹(Jim Jordan)的发言人没有回应就该小组的目标和民主党人的批评置评的请求。
虽然还不清楚共和党领导人将在小组委员会中安排谁，但可能包括目前不在司法委员会的成员，包括R-Ga的Marjorie Taylor Greene。
周日，众议院自由党团主席斯科特·佩里。,拒绝退出陪审团尽管联邦调查人员去年夏天没收了他的手机，作为他们调查1月6日和推翻2020年总统选举的工作的一部分。
“我为什么要受到限制?为什么仅仅因为有人提出指控就应该限制任何人?佩里对美国广播公司“本周”节目主持人乔治·斯特凡诺普洛斯说:“除非被证明是无辜的，否则每个美国人都是无辜的。”。
罗伊在福克斯新闻频道表示，共和党人敦促麦卡锡和共和党领导人“至少”给该委员会提供前议长南希·佩洛西1月6日委员会提供的尽可能多的资源，该委员会有几十名工作人员，花费了数百万美元。
但与众议院1月6日的调查不同，期待少数党愿意参与:民主党人不打算抵制该小组及其听证会，就像共和党人对1月6日特别委员会所做的那样，一名民主党高级助手告诉美国广播公司新闻。
House Republicans propose sweeping committee to review government's criminal investigations
House Republicans plan to give a new panel sweeping authority to investigate active criminal investigations, a mandate that could set up new fights with the Justice Department and national security agencies over sensitive records and probes -- including those involving former President Donald Trump.
That's according to a measure the House is expected to take up this week as part of Speaker Kevin McCarthy's agreement with a band of some of his most conservative colleagues, who had delayed McCarthy winning the gavel.
An updated version of the resolution -- which must first be approved by the House and which is part of the proposed rules that will govern the next two years of the chamber -- includes new powers for a judiciary subcommittee that would look into what Republicans call the "weaponization of the federal government."
The special panel would have authority to investigate how any part of the federal government collects and analyzes information on Americans, along with "ongoing criminal investigations" and civil liberties issues, according to the text of the resolution.
Under the resolution, the panel would also get access to highly classified information shared only with the House Intelligence Committee -- some of the government's most sensitive secrets, which are deliberately kept from nearly all of Congress.
Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, said in an interview with Fox News on Friday that the proposed subcommittee's mandate was revised and broadened as part of McCarthy's negotiations with his critics in the GOP conference.
"We got more resources, more specificity, more power to go after this recalcitrant Biden administration," Roy said.
Democrats worry the GOP could use such broad new powers, which appear to be on a collision course with longstanding Justice Department policy not to disclose information about ongoing criminal investigations, to disrupt probes into Jan. 6 and Trump's handling of classified and sensitive government documents.
"Jim Jordan and Kevin McCarthy claim to be investigating the weaponization of the federal government when, in fact, this new select committee is the weapon itself," New York Rep. Jerry Nadler, the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, said in a statement.
"It is specifically designed to inject extremist politics into our justice system and shield the MAGA movement from the legal consequences of their actions," Nadler contended, calling the effort a "reckless partisan exercise fueled by conspiracy theories."
A spokesman for expected Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, didn't respond to a request for comment on the panel's aims and Democrats' criticism.
While it's not clear who GOP leaders will place on the subcommittee, it could include members who aren't currently on the Judiciary Committee, including Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga.
On Sunday, House Freedom Caucus Chairman Scott Perry, R-Pa., declined to recuse himself from serving on the panel, even though federal investigators seized his cell phone last summer as part of their work looking into Jan. 6 and the push to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
"Why should I be limited? Why should anybody be limited just because someone has made an accusation? Everybody in America is innocent until proven otherwise," Perry told ABC "This Week" anchor George Stephanopoulos.
Roy said on Fox News that Republicans urged McCarthy and GOP leaders to give the panel "at least" as many resources as former Speaker Nancy Pelosi provided the Jan. 6 committee, which had dozens of staffers and spent millions of dollars.
But unlike the with the House's Jan. 6 probe, expect the minority party to willingly participate: Democrats don't plan to boycott the panel and its hearings, like Republicans did with the Jan. 6 select committee, a senior Democratic aide told ABC News.
