Garcia secures top Democratic seat on powerful Oversight Committee

Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) on Tuesday secured the top Democratic seat on the powerful House Oversight Committee, winning a vote of the full Democratic Caucus in the crowded race to replace the late-Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.), who died last month of esophageal cancer. Garcia bested another committee Democrat, Rep. Stephen Lynch (Mass.), in the closed-door,...