Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) offered a glimpse Sunday into how the GOP-controlled House may ratchet up investigations into FBI whistleblower allegations of politicization within the agency.

In this fledgling session of Congress, Jordan heads the House Judiciary Committee as well as a new subcommittee charged with investigating the “weaponization” of the federal government, giving him broad jurisdiction and more powerful tools, such as subpoenas, to conduct inquiries.

Maria Bartiromo, host of Fox News’s “Sunday Morning Futures,” pressed the congressman on whether bringing in the FBI whistleblowers to testify under oath is a possibility.

“We are working with them,” Jordan said of the whistleblowers after raising concerns about retaliation by the Justice Department. “We think many of them are in fact going to be willing to sit for a deposition and be willing to testify in a public hearing. So we’re working on that as we speak.”

House Republicans on the Judiciary Committee demanded information from law enforcement and intelligence leaders last year, albeit without subpoena power, and released a report in November summarizing the allegations of politicization in the Justice Department and FBI raised by “a multitude” of whistleblowers.

“Whistleblowers describe how the FBI has abused its law-enforcement authorities for political purposes, and how actions by FBI leadership show a political bias against conservatives,” the report said.

Examples included allegations of the FBI “...

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