Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., vowed on Sunday to "fight hard" against socialist policies Democrats may pursue as the majority party in the House next term.

Specifically, Cheney pointed to members of the incoming class of congressional Democrats who may implore likely House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., to take up such an agenda.

"We have a lot of Democrats now coming in who are socialists. I'm not exaggerating, they are socialists," Cheney said during a panel on Fox News Sunday. "And I think that it's very important that we actually do have very aggressive and clear policy debates. We've got to make sure that we understand the grave national security threat that's out there, as well as the threat that we're facing from the perspective of our debt.

"And the socialist set of agendas, set of issues, which I think leader Pelosi is probably going to be compelled to have to push forward, are ones that would be disastrous for the nation. So I think we've got to fight and fight hard on those issues."

Cheney will serve as the next chairwoman of the House Republican Conference, the No. 3 leadership position in the GOP minority set to be seated in Congress next year. It is the same position her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, held in 1987 before he was promoted to minority whip a year and a half later.

Despite the polarization on Capitol Hill, Liz Cheney said Sunday there have also been moments of bipartisanship.

"On the floor of the House of Representatives, there isn't venom all the time," she said. "And I've found that you can go sit down next to anybody from any party, they've got an interesting story, and there are good people there for the right reasons."

Cheney, who was first elected to Congress in 2016, will help steer the Republican conference's communications and public relations strategy as its chairwoman in a political environment in which self-proclaimed democratic socialists Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., have elevated liberal priorities such as "Medicare for All" and abolishing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.