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GOP Senators Block Bipartisan Probe of Jan. 6 Capitol Attack
Newsmax ^ | May 28, 2021

Posted on 05/28/2021 11:03:03 AM PDT by Navy Patriot

Senate Republicans on Friday blocked the creation of a bipartisan panel to study the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, refusing to back down on their opposition to the independent investigation.

The Senate vote was 54-35 — short of the 60 votes needed to consider a House-passed bill

Democrats and some moderate Republicans had called for a commission to probe the events leading up to and on Jan. 6, when hundreds of people, some of them supporters of President Donald Trump, stormed the Capitol, fighting with police, urging violence against lawmakers and delaying the formal certification of President Joe Biden's election victory.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: associatedpress; bipartisan; bipartisanmyass; capitolriot; commission; commissionblocked; didyousearch; gettrump; mediawingofthednc; newsmax; newssmack; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; setup; smearcampaign; soviettrial; stalinstyleshowtrial; zot
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To: canuck_conservative

the way these leftist journalists always feel the need to insert these outright lies into their stories makes it look like they’re admitting the Public isn’t buying the “riot narrative”
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I thought Newsmax was portrayed as a reliable, basically conservative news source. Apparently I was deceived!


21 posted on 05/28/2021 11:41:31 AM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat
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To: Navy Patriot
"This article was compiled from reporting by The Associated Press and Reuters."

Bottom line for me.

22 posted on 05/28/2021 11:42:03 AM PDT by A Navy Vet (USA Birth Certificate - 1787. Death Certificate - 2021 under Biteme.)
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To: canuck_conservative

the way these leftist journalists always feel the need to insert these outright lies into their stories makes it look like they’re admitting the Public isn’t buying the “riot narrative”
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I thought Newsmax was portrayed as a reliable, basically conservative news source. Apparently I was deceived!


23 posted on 05/28/2021 11:42:18 AM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat
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To: Navy Patriot
"Democrats and some moderate Republicans had called for a commission..."

Communists and synchophant Republican fellow-travelers had called for a commission...

24 posted on 05/28/2021 11:43:31 AM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another Sam Adams now that we desperately need him?)
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To: Navy Patriot

good question. a quorum is at least 51 senators. It’s really not 60 votes but 3/5.
assuming the 11 didn’t show up. so what is 3/5 of 89?

https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/RS/98-425


25 posted on 05/28/2021 11:44:30 AM PDT by stylin19a (Golf is a game invented by the same people who think music comes out of a bagpipe.)
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To: Phlap

IF Jan 6 had been a true insurrection....people would know.


26 posted on 05/28/2021 11:45:08 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: doc maverick

Congress should NOT be wasting anymore time on this kind of
horse manure. The impeachment proceedings were bad enough!

************

Other places can’t let it go either. Life is moving on and we need
get this country back to producing, jobs, importing exporting and
spending money. Life goes on until each one of us reach our death.


27 posted on 05/28/2021 11:50:22 AM PDT by deport ( )
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To: ealgeone

IF Jan 6 had been a true insurrection....people would know.


Like the Apr 12, 1861 – Apr 9, 1865 era? People knew then.


28 posted on 05/28/2021 11:53:43 AM PDT by deport ( )
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To: Navy Patriot

except for the handful of idiots who charged the police, this was nothing more than a First Amendment protest.


29 posted on 05/28/2021 12:42:55 PM PDT by elpadre ( )
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To: Navy Patriot

The article lies that 4 people died in the attack. Only one young woman was murdered by Capitol cop David Bailey who the feds and DC refuse to bring to justice and continue to protect at all costs.


30 posted on 05/28/2021 12:45:14 PM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: Midwesterner53

It is a terrible article. No mention of those Repblicans who voted for the bill, or those who were not present.


31 posted on 05/28/2021 12:50:36 PM PDT by Bookshelf
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To: Phlap
“Not to say that January 6, 2021 was negative.”

It is to the Democrat media, hence the headline.

I can’t say as I recall ever seeing a headline pointing the finger at Democrats for killing what any normal American would see as positive legislation.

Which they have, on countless occasions.

32 posted on 05/28/2021 12:55:32 PM PDT by daler
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To: Navy Patriot

“bipartisan”


33 posted on 05/28/2021 12:59:54 PM PDT by DEEP_e
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To: Navy Patriot

These are the 11 senators who didn’t vote on the bill:
Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee
Republican Sen. Roy Blunt of Missouri
Republican Sen. Mike Braun of Indiana
Republican Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina
Republican Sen. Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma
Democratic Sen. Patty Murray of Washington
Republican Sen. Mike Rounds of South Dakota
Republican Sen. James Risch of Idaho
Republican Sen. Richard Shelby of Alabama
Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona
Republican Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania

6 voted yes:
Mitt Romney of Utah, Susan Collins of Maine, Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, Rob Portman of Ohio, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Ben Sasse of Nebraska.


34 posted on 05/28/2021 1:00:07 PM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: Navy Patriot

“Bi-partistan” means helping Democrats get what they want.


35 posted on 05/28/2021 1:05:09 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: fortes fortuna juvat

“I thought Newsmax was portrayed as a reliable, basically conservative news source. Apparently I was deceived!”

Newmax was one of the first media outlets to refer to Slow Joe as “President Elect”. We stopped watching then.


36 posted on 05/28/2021 1:08:19 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Faith, not fear. Faith, not faintheartedness.)
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To: Bookshelf

These are the 11 senators who didn’t vote on the bill:
Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee
Republican Sen. Roy Blunt of Missouri
Republican Sen. Mike Braun of Indiana
Republican Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina
Republican Sen. Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma
Democratic Sen. Patty Murray of Washington
Republican Sen. Mike Rounds of South Dakota
Republican Sen. James Risch of Idaho
Republican Sen. Richard Shelby of Alabama
Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona
Republican Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania

6 voted yes:
Mitt Romney of Utah, Susan Collins of Maine, Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, Rob Portman of Ohio, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Ben Sasse of Nebraska.


37 posted on 05/28/2021 1:29:31 PM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: Navy Patriot

I want to know how Toomey voted.


38 posted on 05/28/2021 2:00:16 PM PDT by Dr. Scarpetta ( )
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To: Dr. Scarpetta
I want to know how Toomey voted.

He didn't. Abstention.

39 posted on 05/28/2021 2:01:10 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: Navy Patriot
Shame on the RINOs who voted for this bill: Lisa Murkowksi (R-Alaska), Susan Collins (R-Maine), Bill Cassidy (R-La.), Ben Sasse (R-Ne.), Mitt Romney (R-Utah), and Rob Portman (R-Ohio).

Every single one of them needs to be run out of the Senate.

40 posted on 05/28/2021 2:08:03 PM PDT by ducttape45 ("Righteousness exalteth a nation; but sin is a reproach to any people." Proverbs 14:34)
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