January 6 commission

…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…

…subpoenaed to testify before the House’s Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol.

…Pelosi to serve on the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol; she was one of only two Republicans to serve on the committee. She was named vice chair of the committee in September. Her embrace of the committee’s work to investigate the…

…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…

…would have created a national commission to investigate the January 6 attack, claiming that it would unnecessarily duplicate ongoing investigations by two Senate committees and the Justice Department (the Senate investigation, however, was focused on intelligence and communication failures by law-enforcement agencies prior to the attack). In response, the House…

…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…

…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…

…named to the House select committee that was established to investigate the January 6 attack. He played a prominent role in the committee’s efforts to examine Trump’s involvement in the events of that day. The committee ultimately recommended that the Department of Justice charge Trump with several crimes, which included…