About two months before midterm elections that could hand the GOP control of the House, McCarthy and other Republicans are planning an extensive list of surveys that will translate the party’s grievances with Democratic policies and hot-button items. » in research priorities. House Republicans have so far pledged to investigate the business dealings and art sales of President Biden’s son, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, the Biden administration’s military withdrawal from Afghanistan, the origins of the new coronavirus, school closures related to the coronavirus, the administration’s discussions of arms sales to Ukraine and the spending of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, uprising. More recently, in the wake of widespread Republican outrage over the FBI’s investigation into Mar-a -Lago, McCarthy promised to investigate the Justice Department.