Posted on 05/19/2021 4:07:28 PM PDT by Coronal
35 House Republicans on Wednesday voted with Democrats in favor of a bill to create a commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack, a significant break from GOP leadership, which urged members to vote against the bill.
The list includes all 10 Republicans who voted to impeach Trump in January, as well as a number of members of the bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus, which endorsed the bill.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy spoke out against the bill on Monday, alleging the commission wouldn’t be able to probe political violence beyond Jan. 6.
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What a law fare circus
Ok let’s name names.
Names?
Traitors
unipartisan support.
I’d like to see a list of the scumbags whom voted for this.
ALL of them need a primary challenger.
Only 35? That’s a surprise. Thought there would have been more that wanted to truth about the destruction of the capital. I mean it was worse than 9/11 right?
Never-Trumpers and Team D enablers. Just great.
35 sounds like a lot of republicans, but 35 out of how many total GOP?
I just read about The Turtle saying he would not be voting for this commission. Maybe his influence is slipping.
Worst vote they will ever make.
Personally I would love a completely full and thorough unbiased look into Jan 6, exposing the ‘real’ culprits. Yet we all know this is meant to be another circus aimed at Pres Trump and his followers only.
35 for, 175 against.
“The list includes all 10 Republicans who voted to impeach Trump in January, as well as a number of members of the bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus, which endorsed the bill.”
Just what we need, another fixed show trial. I’ll be interested to read the list of these tools.
The conclusions of this Commission are already written. Any Republican who voted for it is as much an enemy as the Democrats.
Besides Liz Cheney, who are the other 34 ?
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/117/hr3233
That’s the bill but govtrack is not on the ball and has it as having not come out of committee yet, let alone a house vote.
The Republican mavericks were led by New York Rep. John Katko, who wrote the measure with Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss. Katko, that panel’s top Republican, was battling two tides that have overwhelmed Congress in recent years: the nearly overwhelming potency Trump still has among Republicans and a jagged-edged partisanship that often confounds even mundane legislation.
“I encourage all members, Republicans and Democrats alike, to put down their swords for once, just for once, and support this bill,” said Katko.
A moderate and a former prosecutor, Katko defended the proposed commission as a fair and needed step toward understanding the riot, how it happened and what security improvements the Capitol needs to prevent a future assault.
“This is about fact. It is not partisan politics,” he said pointedly.
The 35 defectors represented a relatively modest but still significant proportion of House Republicans, of whom 175 opposed the legislation. Their defiance underscored the party’s rift as some lawmakers supported an investigation of the shocking and violent Capitol attack while leaders tried to avoid enraging the former president, whose support they believe they’ll need to win House control in the 2022 elections
Three Republicans spoke in favor of the legislation: Katko and Fred Upton and Peter Meijer of Michigan. All were among the 10 who’d voted days after the attack to impeach Trump for encouraging his supporters to attack the Capitol. Trump was later acquitted by the Senate.
If not for resistance by the Capitol Police, “Who knows how many of our heads would have been swinging on those gallows” that members of the mob erected outside the building, Upton said.
Meijer, a freshman, took what seemed veiled shots at Trump, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., and some of his GOP colleagues.
Without mentioning names, Meijer said the attack occurred “with the encouragement of prominent elected officials.” He said some who initially criticized the attack “have walked back their words or softened their speech.”
Meijer added, “More troubling, there has been an active effort to whitewash and rewrite the shameful events of that day to avoid accountability.”
Days after the Capitol attack, McCarthy said Trump “bears responsibility” for the rioters’ assault. But he opposed impeachment, eased his criticisms of Trump and opposed creation of the commission. Other Republicans have downplayed the attack, with one comparing the rioters to tourists
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