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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRepublicans demand equal representation on 1/6 Commission
Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her Republican counterparts remain at odds over several issues, according to multiple sources familiar with the talks.
By HEATHER CAYGLE and KYLE CHENEY
02/22/2021 01:37 PM EST
Senior House lawmakers are battling over the contours of a panel inspired by the 9/11 Commission to investigate the deadly Capitol insurrection on Jan. 6, with Republicans demanding equal representation.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her Republican counterparts have already traded one offer each but still remain at odds over several issues including membership on the proposed commission, according to multiple sources familiar with the talks. Pelosi, who's vowed to quickly take up legislation creating the commission, proposed tilting the panel in favor of Democrats, with her party getting to pick seven of the members while Republican leaders choose four additional appointees.
But Republicans are insisting on an equal split each party gets to appoint five members in their counteroffer, sources told POLITICO.
In fact, members of the former 9/11 Commission cited that even partisan split as the reason for their success as they advised Pelosi on this year's insurrection commission. Their willingness to take bipartisan ownership of the direction of the investigation, without an edge for either party, helped ensure the commissions credibility in the eyes of the public, they said. For a review of the Jan. 6 riot to be credible, the former commissioners said, it must similarly be seen as independent and unbiased, rather than a tool of either party.
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Republicans demand equal representation on 1/6 Commission (Original Post)
DonViejo
Feb 2021
OP
That's like asking for Nazis to have equal representation among the judges at the Nuremberg trials
DFW
Feb 2021
#6
That is such a spot-on analogy that I'm willing to temporarily suspend Godwin's Law.
11 Bravo
Feb 2021
#9
Republicans will staff their picks with bad faith actors and nothing will get done.
Midnight Writer
Feb 2021
#7
drray23
(7,615 posts)1. as long as they dont put clowns like Jim Jordan
or the like. We will know if the republicans are serious by whom they propose to sit in that commission.
blm
(113,003 posts)2. Trump's insurrectionists were 100% Republican representation
MagickMuffin
(15,924 posts)3. I'd say Speaker Pelosi go with your intuition
I don't think the American people will mind if it isn't balanced. The American people know that the republiqans are the reason for the insurrection.
We want the truth not a circus, we've had enough of that it is time to take things seriously as this case is.
MyOwnPeace
(16,913 posts)4. The idea of 'equal' representation
WOULD take away any crying that the RepubliQons would no doubt be doing regarding any findings that they don't like.
Why don't they select members by each side submitting a list of names that BOTH sides would agree upon. They can keep exchanging names until a full panel is agreed upon.
Then, get to work!
NotAPuppet
(326 posts)5. That might be be difficult
since some Republican House and Senate members should be testifying about their involvement in the riot.
DFW
(54,268 posts)6. That's like asking for Nazis to have equal representation among the judges at the Nuremberg trials
Permitting ANY of them on such a commission is a concession, as far as I'm concerned.
11 Bravo
(23,925 posts)9. That is such a spot-on analogy that I'm willing to temporarily suspend Godwin's Law.
DFW
(54,268 posts)11. I live in Germany
So I don't use it much, either.
Midnight Writer
(21,692 posts)7. Republicans will staff their picks with bad faith actors and nothing will get done.
Just like the Senate.
lame54
(35,259 posts)10. They are incapable of unbias