{"id":8725,"date":"2025-05-01T17:17:32","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T17:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/crockett-starts-stumping-for-oversight-post-telling-colleagues-shes-made-for-the-moment\/"},"modified":"2025-05-01T17:17:32","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T17:17:32","slug":"crockett-starts-stumping-for-oversight-post-telling-colleagues-shes-made-for-the-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/crockett-starts-stumping-for-oversight-post-telling-colleagues-shes-made-for-the-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"Crockett starts stumping for Oversight post, telling colleagues she’s \u2018made for the moment\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rep. Jasmine Crockett of Texas has started pitching fellow Democrats on a run for the party’s top Oversight Committee position, according to two people familiar with the situation.<\/p>\n

Crockett’s entreaties \u2014 playing out in phone calls, text messages and floor conversations \u2014 mark the beginning of a contested race to succeed Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) as Oversight’s ranking member. Rep. Stephen Lynch of Massachusetts is also seeking the job, though Connolly \u2014 who announced plans to step aside after suffering a recurrence of esophageal cancer \u2014 has not yet formally done so.<\/p>\n

Crockett has told other lawmakers that she\u2019s “made for the moment,” the people said, an apparent reference to the desire among Democratic voters for more forceful resistance to President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

She told Blue Light News in a text message that, while there isn\u2019t a vacancy, \u201cknowing that Rep Connolly doesn\u2019t plan to seek re-election & knowing that our oversight powers are broad, I\u2019m ready to shine a light on the very dark things taking place in our country under this administration.\u201d<\/p>\n

She added, \u201cI wouldn\u2019t want anyone to think that I\u2019m not interested in leading our investigative body while also communicating & educating the country on our findings.\u201d<\/p>\n

Semafor first reported<\/a> that Crockett intended to seek the top Oversight post.<\/p>\n

Crockett could be part of a crowded field of younger progressive Democrats who seek the job, including Reps. Robert Garcia of California, Ro Khanna of California and Maxwell Frost of Florida. <\/p>\n

But Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York could clear the field<\/a> if she chooses to run. She lost to Connolly when she ran for the Oversight job last year and has since said she\u2019s \u201cweighing\u201d a bid to run<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rep. Jasmine Crockett of Texas has started pitching fellow Democrats on a run for the party’s top Oversight Committee position, according to two people familiar with the situation. Crockett’s entreaties \u2014 playing out in phone calls, text messages and floor conversations \u2014 mark the beginning of a contested race to succeed Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}