June 24 (UPI) -- Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif., won a majority of votes on the first ballot to become the House Democratic Party's top member on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
Garcia, 47, received 150 votes to 63 votes for Rep. Stephen Lynch, D-Mass., in a caucus vote made on Tuesday, Politico reported.
The win makes Garcia the likely Oversight Committee chairman if Democrats win a majority of seats in the House in next year's midterm elections.
If that were to happen, Garcia would work to hold President Donald Trump accountable for "corruption" while working to reform the federal government, he told media after the caucus vote.
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