January 6 Commission Dies, As Republicans Oppose Focus on January 6
After a month or so of discussions, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has apparently given up on her idea of creating a bipartisan, independent commission to investigate the Capitol Riot. Instead, seven House committees will conduct their own investigation of the events of January 6, utilizing their subpoena and fact-gathering powers, as Politico reports:
In letters to 16 agencies across the Executive Branch and Congress, the panels asked for all communications sent between agency officials regarding Congress’ Jan. 6 session, when lawmakers certified Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory. The requests demand all relevant documents and messages from Dec. 1, 2020, to Jan. 20, 2021.
Congressional Republicans objected to two features of Pelosi’s original proposal. First, she proposed giving the president three appointments in addition to one each from House and Senate leaders from both parties. That, said Republicans, would give Democrats an overall 7-4 majority on the commission, unlike the equal partisan representation on its model, the 9/11 Commission.
But Pelosi has indicated repeatedly that she was open to negotiation on the structure and composition of the commission. The real killer, it seems, has been GOP refusal to accept a January 6 commission whose scope is limited to the events of that day, as the Associated Press reported last week.
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