Do you really expect that this January 6th committee will be fair if it selects only members who do not like former President Trump? The two Republicans added by Nacy Pelosi are obviously on the side of the Democrats.
House Republicans balked at participating in the House committee that’s investigating the January 6 insurrection on Wednesday after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi rejected two of the five Republicans House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy had tapped for the panel.
Pelosi’s decision to reject the two Republicans – and McCarthy’s response to pull the rest his members – injected new fuel into the partisan fight over the select committee that’s been raging since Democrats created the panel last month to investigate the circumstances surrounding the January 6 attack on the Capitol.
Evidence collected by the infamous “January 6th Committee” has conveniently gone “missing” and was allegedly destroyed, according to Republican Rep. Barry Loudermilk of Georgia.
With the criminal indictment of former President Donald Trump related to the events of January 6th, Americans are left asking one pivotal question: What are they hiding?
Jul 22, 2021, 1:27pm EDT
January 6th Committee
House committee investigation into Jan. 6 is off to a turbulent start. Here’s why
The Democrat-led committee to investigate the Jan. 6 insurrection is off to a turbulent start.
Disarray over the House Select Committee to Investigate January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol escalated Wednesday as party leaders sparred over who could serve on the investigative body.
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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., withdrew his handful of nominees to the committee on Wednesday after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., refused to allow two of McCarthy’s five nominations from participating in the House’s investigation into Jan. 6, The Hill reported.
- Pelosi, who has final approval of the committee’s members, said in a statement Wednesday that she “must reject the recommendations” of Republican Congressmen Jim Banks, of Indiana, and Jim Jordan, of Ohio, to the investigative team.
- Both Jordan and Banks have been adamant supporters of former President Donald Trump, who was impeached for “incitement of insurrection” after his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6., according the The Hill.
McCarthy promptly pushed back against Pelosi’s rejection of two congressmen to the committee, and, in a statement, called the speaker’s actions “an egregious abuse of power.”
- The minority leader said that unless all five nominees are approved — which includes Reps. Rodney Davis, of Illinois, Kelly Armstrong, of North Dakota, and Troy Nehls, of Texas, that were OK’d by Pelosi — Republicans would “pursue their own investigation.”
- “They (Democrats) want to make this all about Donald Trump, dragging Republican members of Congress through the mud and attacking 75 million people that voted for Donald Trump,” Banks alleged in an interview with the New York Post on Wednesday.
January 6th Committee August, 2023:
Last year, incoming Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) demanded that the January 6th committee preserve all of its records, evidence, and transcripts.
The committee will still have Republican representation from one member: Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, an outspoken critic of former President Donald Trump who was one of Pelosi’s eight choices to serve on the committee. Cheney’s participation keeps the committee bipartisan even without anyone appointed by McCarthy. Read full article
Source: CNN
The hearings are expected to shine a spotlight on the nine-member committee, which features seven Democrats and two Republicans. Here’s who they are:
Democrats: Bennie Thompson, Adam Schiff (FactCheck.org), Jamie Raskin, Elaine Luria, Pete Aguilar, Zoe Lofgren, Stephanie Murphy
Republicans: Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger
