The Republican-led House Oversight Committee is launching an investigation into President Joe Biden's newly established task force on corporate-pricing practices, claiming it could be used as a "political tool," according to a letter obtained by CNBC In the letter dated Tuesday, the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability demanded that by April 30, Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan turn over all FTC records related to the creation of the Strike Force on Unfair and Illegal Pricing, which Biden launched in March to address concerns related to corporate-pricing practices. "The timing of the Strike Force announcement, in an election year, raises the likelihood that political motivations rather than the interests of American consumers drove the action," House Oversight Committee Chair Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., said in the letter. "To use the FTC as a tool in a pol