Wednesday, June 30, 2021

6/29/21 Pelosi Calls for a Select Committee to Investigate the 1/6 Insurrection Attempt

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi introduced legislation on Monday to form a Select Committee to investigate the insurrection attempt on 1/6/21.

It's a way forward after Senate Republicans, led by House Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, blocked a bill for a full-bore bipartisan investigation.
“Senate Republicans did Mitch McConnell a ‘personal favor’ rather than their patriotic duty," Pelosi said, as she introduced the bill, “But Democrats are determined to find the truth.”
The 13-member committee will have eight members chosen by Ms. Pelosi, and the House GOP leaders will have input on the other five. Ms. Pelosi will also choose the committee chair.
Word has it that Pelosi might name a Republican as one of her picks for member. It's probably in Ms. Pelosi's (and the country's) interests to include Republicans to sidestep attempts by certain GOP lawmakers to paint the investigation as a one-party smear brigade.
The House Rules Committee is expected to send Pelosi's bill to the full House for a vote, which will probably occur Wednesday.
At this juncture, almost six months after 1/6, the committee will have lots of investigative evidence to draw from, thanks to the ongoing FBI manhunt for participants. But this committee won't just be looking for small fry. They'll want to know who was involved in the conception and planning of the monstrosity of that day, including the role played by ex-President Donald Trump.
We all have an opinion, or a hunch, about who was behind the catastrophe of that day. Let's hope that the committee will find incontrovertible facts -- and soon.


Do you think that Trump or people in his inner circle were instigators of the insurrection? Do you think that there will be a "smoking gun" that will show Trump's role? Do you think that the GOP will try to thwart the committee, or to whitewash its conclusions once it's finished?


https://www.huffpost.com/entry/pelosi-resolution-house-select-committee_n_60da54bfe4b07b25f60e533d?fbclid=IwAR3MwAW5fR6ntCkfYiGbUHiguYta_qiWdPb7xJ-GSI_9M2_PDz4oNYlzurE

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