House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., on Thursday announced her appointed members of the newly-created select committee to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol — and said Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., will be one of them.
Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., who serves as chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, will chair the select committee on Jan. 6. Thompson negotiated a bipartisan bill that would have established a bipartisan commission to investigate the riot, but the measure was ultimately blocked by Senate Republicans.
Cheney, who was ousted as chairwoman of the House Republican Conference after she spoke out against Trump and her fellow Republicans over their false election fraud claims, said Jan. 6 can never happen again.
“Congress is obligated to conduct a full investigation of the most serious attack on our Capitol since 1814,” Cheney said in a statement Thursday. “That day saw the most sacred space in our Republic overrun by an angry and violent mob attempting to stop the counting of electoral votes and threatening the peaceful transfer of power.”
The other members of the House select committee, which will have the power to subpoena witnesses and documents, include Reps. Adam Schiff, D-Calif, Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., Pete Aguilar, D-Calif., Stephanie Murphy, D-Fla., Jamie Raskin, D-Md., and Elaine Luria, D-Va.
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