Here's your select committee on the Jan. 6 Capitol riot: pic.twitter.com/3as5e2OlRC
— Olivier Knox (@OKnox) July 1, 2021
I asked Pelosi when the committee will get started and what they would do if McCarthy doesn’t appoint immediately.
“Well, we have a quorum,” she said with a smile.
— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) July 1, 2021
Per the Washington Post, official paper for the company town whose monopoly interest is politics:
… Addressing reporters after the group held its first meeting Thursday afternoon, Thompson said that the selected lawmakers plan to begin by inviting police officers who defended the Capitol on Jan. 6 to testify at a hearing.
“The select committee is determined to assemble a comprehensive and authoritative report on the events constituting the January 6th insurrection, the relevant causes of the insurrection and policy recommendations necessary to prevent any reoccurrence of this nightmare in the future,” Thompson said. “Although we eagerly await the arrival of our five other colleagues, many of us hope to begin the process with a hearing in which Capitol Police officers themselves could be able to testify about their experiences.”
Beginning the committee’s work in such a manner “makes a positive statement” to those who put their lives on the line to defend the Capitol and those who work there, Thompson said, noting that the hearing has not yet been scheduled…
Pelosi designed the Jan. 6 select committee to have 13 members, five of whom would be appointed “after consultation with” McCarthy. That means she will maintain the power to overrule any McCarthy pick whom Democrats consider objectionable.
“It was our hope that we could have done this with the bipartisan outside commission,” Pelosi said at a news conference Thursday morning. “Maybe one day that will be possible. . . . But I’m very proud. And, as I say, decisions are liberating. They enable you to go to the next step. And the next step for us has always been to seek and find the truth.”…
Other members may be added later, if McCarthy decides he wants to take part in the process.
— Olivier Knox (@OKnox) July 1, 2021
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