January 6 commission

United States government commission

Also known as: National Commission to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the United States Capitol Complex

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In United States: Stalled voting rights legislation, the fate of the filibuster, and the appointment of Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court
…prevented the establishment of an independent commission to investigate the United States Capitol attack of 2021. Thirty-five Republicans joined all the Democratic members of the House in voting 252–175 to authorize the creation of a commission modeled on the one that investigated the September 11 attacks. However, the measure to…
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In Steve Bannon: Association with Trump
…subpoenaed to testify before the House’s Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol.
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In Ivanka Trump
…Ivanka Trump testified before a congressional committee investigating the Capitol attack. She notably stated that she had “accepted” that there was no widespread fraud in the 2020 election. This admission drew a rebuke from her father. Later in 2022 she testified in New York Attorney General Letitia James’s investigation into…
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In Kevin McCarthy: Political career
…McCarthy to serve on the committee investigating the January 6th attack (Jim Jordan and Jim Banks), McCarthy withdrew his other nominees and sought to block Republican involvement in the committee, which he branded a “sham process.” When Representatives Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney ignored that directive, the Republican National Committee…
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In Nancy Pelosi
…oversaw the formation of the House’s Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol. When Pelosi refused to seat two of Republican House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s five nominees for the committee—Representatives Jim Banks and Jim Jordan—because, she argued, they were too closely involved with…
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