Jan. 6 committee postpones planned hearing as Hurricane Ian advances
Source: Washington Post
The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol is postponing its highly anticipated hearing because of Hurricane Ian, which is expected to barrel into the western coast of Florida on Wednesday, committee leaders announced Tuesday.
“In light of Hurricane Ian bearing down on parts of Florida, we have decided to postpone tomorrow’s proceedings,” chairman Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-Miss.) and vice-chair Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) wrote in a joint statement. “We’re praying for the safety of all those in the storm’s path.”
It’s unclear when the daytime hearing, which seeks to recapture the nation’s attention with what is likely to be the panel’s final public hearing before the release of a final report, will be rescheduled. Thompson and Cheney’s statement noted, “The Select Committee’s investigation goes forward and we will soon announce a date for the postponed proceedings.”
The hearing follows eight highly produced, news-making hearings that aired over June and July, featuring blockbuster testimony from former White House officials, poll workers and law enforcement officers. During the committee’s August hiatus, staff doubled back to their investigative work to follow new leads and answer unresolved questions.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/09/27/jan-6-committee-postpones-planned-hearing-hurricane-ian-advances/
Here is the confirmation from the J6 Committee twitter account, hot off the 'puter -
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In light of Hurricane Ian bearing down on parts of Florida, we have decided to postpone tomorrow's proceedings. We're praying for the safety of all those in the storm's path.
The Select Committee will soon announce a date for the postponed proceedings.
January 6th Committee
@January6thCmte
🗓️ The Select Committee will hold a hearing on Wednesday, September 28th at 1:00pm.
3:22 PM · Sep 27, 2022
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It's unclear when the daytime hearing, which seeks to recapture the nation's attention with what is likely to be the panel's final public hearing before the release of a final report, will be rescheduled.
The hearing follows eight highly produced, news-making hearings that aired over June and July, featuring blockbuster testimony from former White House officials, poll workers and law enforcement officers. During the committee's August hiatus, staff doubled back to their investigative work to follow new leads and answer unresolved questions.
The final hearing is expected in part to focus on how associates of former president Donald Trump planned to declare victory regardless of the outcome of the 2020 election, according to people familiar with hearing planning. The Washington Post reported Monday that the committee intends to show video of Roger Stone recorded by Danish filmmakers during the weeks before the violence in which Stone predicted violent clashes with left-wing activists and forecast months before Election Day that Trump would use armed guards and loyal judges to stay in power.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
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Looking for J6 confirmation right now! - Found! WaPo has just did their breaking...
Original article and headline -
CNN -- The House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol is expected to postpone its hearing on Wednesday in light of Hurricane Ian heading toward Florida, according to three sources familiar with the decision.
The panel had originally scheduled a hearing for Wednesday to reveal new information it has uncovered since its last hearing on July 21.
This story is breaking and will be updated.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/27/politics/january-6-hearing-postponed/index.html
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since it was an Invest. 
Am afraid she IS in the path if the track doesn't do any big changes... It won't be as strong as what FL would get but right now, the Carolinas are in the cone (and would get some good amount of rain in any case)...
We are even getting forecasts of some here in Philly...
Link to tweet
@January6thCmte
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In light of Hurricane Ian bearing down on parts of Florida, we have decided to postpone tomorrow's proceedings. We're praying for the safety of all those in the storm's path.
The Select Committee will soon announce a date for the postponed proceedings.
January 6th Committee
@January6thCmte
🗓️ The Select Committee will hold a hearing on Wednesday, September 28th at 1:00pm.
3:22 PM · Sep 27, 2022
However it has become a major source of "announcements" from both the media and elected officials and has the benefit of being able to propagate information quickly and include web links directly to the main source. And since none of those media or officials are "techies", they rely on their staff to do the updates, and in many cases, they haven't yet drafted a "final" update to the web page before they send the "heads up" tweet, like a "PA system".
I am a retired federal employee myself so I understand, which is why I hunted around for various sources.
Congress uses them as tools to gather information so they can draft, mark up, discuss, debate, and finalize legislation. And as part of that, they do a lot of "cross-cutting" between and within Committees and their sub-Committees.
So, for example, when the January 6th Committee started going through the issues that involved what were attempts to circumvent the Electoral process, guess what happened? The J6 Committee didn't suddenly "write the legislation" to try to fix it. OTHER Committees did and the House passed one such piece of legislation just a week ago - https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142972407
In a nutshell, the J6 Committee "did a lot of the groundwork" for those other Committees to use to come up with solutions.
Anyone who regularly watches Congressional hearings - notably on any of the CSPANs, and not just the "show hearings" like these, learns over time, to recognize who is who... and they will also communicate (nowadays using twitter) about how they were "sitting in on" certain hearings - whether in the audience OR sometimes even on the dais to ask questions of witnesses as a courtesy of the Committee. This is normal.
And also note that all of those members have staff AND the Committee itself appropriated funds for researchers and lawyers, who are working behind the scenes... and some may be residents of Florida who work in D.C., and may have family there in FL.
So I think it disingenuous to dismiss what is a storm that will certainly generate a major disaster in a number of states just because of a "hearing". And as someone else posted in this thread, most of the major news networks are probably going to do wall-to-wall coverage of Hurricane Ian and would ignore this hearing anyway, and DU would spend all day whining about it.
So best to wait to see how this storm manifests and they can be in the position to get better coverage of the important material that they want to present.
