Pelosi picks Democrats for special panel tackling inequality

Pelosi picks Democrats for special panel tackling inequality

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) this week tapped the Democrats who will lead a special committee designed to tackle the yawning disparity between the wealthiest Americans and the nation’s working classes.

The panel was created in January, as part of the House rules governing the 117th Congress, but has sat idle and unoccupied through the first five months of the session.

Pelosi on Tuesday changed that by naming the eight Democrats who will sit on the panel, which will be chaired by Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.), former head of the centrist New Democrats and a one-time Goldman Sachs executive.The other Democratic members […]

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