How Oct. 7 triggered a House committee into action

Republican Conference Chair and Harvard alum Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., said she was shocked when the presidents of her alma mater and two other universities created the "earthquake" that ignited one of the most watched congressional testimonies in recent times. Stefanik's question -- does calling for the genocide of Jews constitute as hate speech on campus -- became the highlight of the Education and the Workforce Committee's Dec. 5 hearing with the presidents of Harvard, University of Pennsylvania, and MIT on combating antisemitism. "I made it a moral question so that they would answer 'yes,'" Stefanik told ABC News, adding "And to the world's shock, they did not answer yes." The Education Committee's antisemitism oversight kicked off a months-long crackdown on higher education with more than 10 university investigations, seven hearings and roundtables, the resignations of three Ivy League schools' presidents, and multiple congressional subpoenas that produced more than 40,000...