Pushing Idea of GOP as Party of ‘Working Class,’ House Panel To Convene in an Oklahoma Barn

The Ways and Means Committee plan is only the latest in a series of field hearings and outings by the new Congress, which the White House has criticized as a ‘publicity stunt.’

AP/J. Scott Applewhite
Representative Jason Smith at the Capitol on February 24, 2021. AP/J. Scott Applewhite

A top House committee will hold a hearing in an Oklahoma barn next week in an effort to push the GOP as the party of “working-class Americans.”

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