The House Oversight Committee is full of loud voices. What’s the quiet Kansan saying?
Jake LaTurner, Kansas state treasurer, addresses supporters at the Republican candidate watch party at the Capitol Plaza Hotel in Topeka, Kansas on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018. - Jill Toyoshiba/The Kansas City Star/TNS

WASHINGTON -- House Republicans said the evidence they had collected on the financial transactions of President Joe Biden’s family members would make the Watergate scandal look like jaywalking. So in early May, people tuned in to watch Rep. James Comer of Kentucky and other Republican members of the House Oversight and Reform Committee attempt to explain how members of the Biden family had received money from foreign businesses while Biden was in office as vice president through a tangled web of financial ties that fell short of directly tying the money to Biden. Standing in the background was...