House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., credited House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer, R-Ky., for forcing Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser to allow police to evict on-campus anti-Israel protesters and restore order at George Washington University.

Police began to clear a pro-Palestinian tent encampment at the university early Wednesday, hours after dozens of protesters left the site and marched to President Ellen Granberg’s home.

Bowser and Metropolitan Police Department Chief Pamela Smith were set to testify about the district’s handling of the protest at a House Committee on Oversight and Accountability hearing Wednesday afternoon, but Comer canceled the hearing after the police cleared the protest.

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