Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., will take the place of deceased former chairman Elijah Cummings on the powerful House Oversight Committee, according to reports on Thursday.

Multiple outlets and reporters cite a senior Democratic leadership aide who said that House rules dictate that Maloney will take over as acting chair due to her seniority on the committee and that the Democrats' choice of a permanent replacement will be announced at a to-be-determined date and time.

Maloney was first elected to Congress in 1992 and represents New York's 12th Congressional District, which covers part of Manhattan and Queens in New York city.

Cummings, a longtime Baltimore-area representative, passed away during the early hours of Thursday at Gilchrist Hospice Care, an affiliate of Johns Hopkins Hospital, due to “complications concerning longstanding health challenges" at the age of 68.

“He worked until his last breath because he believed our Democracy was the highest and best expression of our collective humanity,” a statement from Cummings’ widow says. “I loved him deeply and will miss him deeply.”

Oversight Committee chair is already a powerful and consequential position to begin with, and it is even more so now that the panel is one of the trio of House panels currently conducting the House's impeachment probe against president Donald Trump.

One Arizona Democrat is calling on the new Democratic majority in the House to "take some risks" in 2019, going as far as attempting to impeach President Trump.

Rep. Raúl Grijalva, D-Ariz., told Hill.TV Monday that Democrats should be aggressive with their agenda, thinking far ahead into the future.

“I hope that we are thinking 10 years ahead, and that we understand that the American people put us in the majority to take some risks to move the ball forward,” Grijalva said. “To sit comfortably and to wait for the next election, is not an option and shouldn’t be an option and I’m hopeful that that’s what happens."

Asked about the House impeaching Trump, he said that one month ago "the i-word" was taboo, but "the drip, drip, drip on this president has become a pretty steady pour now."

“And as we go forward, I don’t think Democrats or Republicans in terms of the well-being of this nation should eliminate the word ‘impeachment’ from their vocabulary,” he added.

Though the rank-and-file is out for blood against Trump, there has been resistance from Democratic leadership to focusing on impeachment. Incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has previously said impeachment is "not a priority." Other Democrats want to wait for special counsel Robert Mueller's final report on the Trump obstruction of justice and Russian collusion investigation before considering impeachment.

Wednesday night, Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, appeared on Fox News' "Hannity" and announced that Congress is prepared to pass a resolution demanding that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein hand over requested documents related to the FBI investigation into Trump-Russia collusion in the 2016 election.

"If they don't give us the documents, we are going to pass a resolution on the House floor, the speaker's been clear about this —" Jordan said.

"How soon?" Hannity asked, interrupting.

"It'll happen next week if they don't do it," Jordan answered. "The speaker has been clear. We will pass that, and the whole House will go on record saying, 'Mr. Rosenstein, give us what we're entitled to have to get answers for the American people.' And then if he still doesn't do that, then it's contempt."

Jordan added that if Rosenstein still refuses to cooperate should Congress hold him in contempt, then the "ultimate" recourse for Congress would be to impeach the deputy attorney general.