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House Democrats lobby against China committee

As House Democrats debate the future of the select committee on China, some in their party are arguing for keeping it around.

✦ Extractive summary — built from the sources' own reporting•From 1 source•1 min read•Updated November 12, 2026, 9:59 AM UTC
Key points
  • There’s a bipartisan push to save the committee as members consult House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries on its future.
  • Greg Meeks, D-N.Y., the top Foreign Affairs Committee Democrat, who favors folding the select panel under his committee, has been pushing to make it a “special” committee under House Foreign Affairs, a person familiar with the talks said.
  • “We will follow the lead of the incoming speaker on how he wants to handle the China select committee, but the Foreign Affairs Committee is well poised to conduct oversight of this administration’s China policy,” a spokesperson for Meeks said.

Some Democrats on the House Foreign Affairs Committee are encouraging leaders to scrap the chamber’s Select Committee on China once their party takes over next year.

Other Democrats are pushing for the committee to broaden its focus beyond China if they opt to keep it next Congress.

Additional details
  • He told reporters Wednesday the discussions with committee leaders and the caucus on the future of the China select panel and a proposed AI select committee were “ongoing.” Rep.
  • “If you want to be able to look at the comprehensive issues facing the US-China relationship, there is not a single committee that covers all of it.
  • Other observers have noted that the China panel’s jurisdiction extends across that of others, and it has collaborated with the House Oversight, Financial Services, Energy and Commerce, Homeland Security, Appropriations, and Natural Resources committees.
  • Some of them have also pushed back against the idea of forming a select panel on AI next year as Democratic committee leaders look to reserve their own turf on AI and other high-profile issues.
  • “For a lot of what the China committee was doing — we’ve already got a Foreign Affairs Committee, we’ve already got the Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific,” California’s Rep.

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