Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday she will create a House select committee to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, saying there are “many questions” still left unanswered about the deadly event.
Republican senators on May 28 blocked the creation of a bipartisan commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack, using a procedural move to prevent voting on the legislation.
“This morning, with great solemnity and sadness, I’m announcing that the House will be establishing a select committee on the Jan. 6 insurrection,” Pelosi said, according to CNN. “The select committee will investigate and report on the facts and the causes of the attack and it will report recommendations for the prevention of any future attack.”
The new select committee would consolidate several current investigations into Jan. 6 by other House committees, including those by the Homeland Security Committee and the House Oversight Committee.
Pelosi said she realized the danger that the select committee could turn into a partisan feud, much like the select committee investigation into the 2012 attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya, which became a GOP launching pad for intense criticism of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton when she ran for president.
“God knows who the Republicans would appoint [to the Jan. 6 select committee],” Pelosi said. “I hope that [Minority Leader] Kevin [McCarthy] will appoint responsible people to the committee.”
Thirty-five House Republicans initially voted for an independent bipartisan commission to be created with subpoena power to look into the Jan. 6 attack.
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I am telling you—they are truly afraid of a citizens’ revolt in this country. They know they are ticking off a lot of people.
If Democrat Kennel Control master Pelosi had half a brain, she would let the sleeping stolen dog of an election lie. First investigate the stolen election, then you would soon come to understand the reason for January 6th. Just how do you ignore all the BLM, ANTIFA riots, lootings shootings that led up to the valid January 6th response. The democrat’s own organized anarchy was the cradle that gave birth to the Conservative anger at being continually abused and Physically threatened, not to mention their honest human votes negated by machines.
“There are a lot of questions still needing answers”?
YEA, like WHY DID YOU and the rest of the cretins in congress, FIND OUT INFO FROM THE FBI about Antifa and bLM preparing to INFILTRATE the protests/rally of trumps, AND DO NOTHING AHEAD OF TIME to stop it.
Or Why was the national guard USED TO PROTECT THAT city, against “potential future riots” of Conservatives, but EVERY TIME SOMEONE asked to use the guard, to QUELL THE ACTUALLY GOING ON riots, in liberal city after city, THOSE requests got SQUELCHED!
Yep, the January 6th, committee hearing, will go on until the next election.
Most political coverups begin with the formation of a committe, made up of partisans with and agenda of course,,,,,,to dovert attention from the real crimes, and cover the real crimes up with more confusioni
AND beyond if they get their way..
its no secret nancy your demon minions orchestrated that to look like trump suppporters did it.
“This morning, with great solemnity and sadness, I’m announcing that the House will be establishing a select committee on the Jan. 6 insurrection,” Oh, Nancy! The only solemnity on your part is getting the committee to go your way. The sadness is on our part, because the “findings” will echo the Leftist narrative and the MSM will trumpet it everywhere. You need a LOOOOOOONG vacation….permanently.
Preferably into a dank, dark, 6×6 cell, where the door is permanently locked, and the KEY thrown away.
An MSNBC anchor showed “shocking” video from that day. You could not tell who was whom. Just a bunch of waists jostling about….when I did see a citizen they were wearing black.
Shocking!
Well, we saw what the investigation against President Trump brought, zippo, zilch, nada, goose egg…these ***hats no nothing about how to conduct any investigations, let alone do their job. A waste of time and hard taxpayer money.
IF anything, those investigations, PROVED ALL THAT Trump said, was TRUE.. THE REAL liars, and russian plants, WERE IN THE DEM PARTY.
Well, we saw what the investigation against President Trump brought, zippo, zilch, nada, goose egg…these clowns no nothing about how to conduct any investigations, let alone do their job. A waste of time and hard taxpayer money.