Solarium leader Gallagher tapped to lead China select committee; new GOP chairs named for two House panels with cyber roles

Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI), a co-chair of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission, will lead a new panel focused on security and economic challenges posed by China, as House Republicans continue sorting through committee leadership assignments for the incoming 118^th Congress.

“I’d like to thank Speaker-elect McCarthy for appointing me Chairman of the Select Committee on China and for his leadership on this issue,” Gallagher said in a statement Thursday. “The greatest threat to the United States is the Chinese Communist Party.”...