Senate’s new COVID-19 oversight committees should leave rough stuff for the House, say Senators, ‘they’ll take a little bit more of a bloodless view’

'I don’t think it should be gentle. It should be critical, it should be relevant, it should be useful—it should not be partisan just for the sake of being partisan,' says ISG Senator Chantal Petitclerc, who sits on the Senate Social Affairs Committee.

Independent Senators Chantal Petitclerc and Yuen Pau Woo, and CSG Senator Scott Tannas say the Senate committees assigned to COVID-19 should be helpful to the government where they can, and focus on transparency.The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade

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BY PETER MAZEREEUW

April 20, 2020

Two Senate committees just assigned to monitor the government’s response to COVID-19 should leave partisanship at the door, and cut the government some slack as it stickhandles the country’s biggest crisis since World War II, say some of the Senators involved in sh...

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