Why Killing the January 6 Commission was the Right Move

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Last Friday, Senate Republicans successfully blocked the establishment of the January 6 commission, which would have been a 9/11-style commission whose primary intent was, according to a fact sheet released by the House Committee on Homeland Security, “investigating and reporting upon the facts and causes of the January 6 attack on the Capitol as well as the influencing factors that may have provoked the attack on our democracy”.

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Republicans backed out of the opportunity to establish the independent commission with equal representation in party affiliation, but the need to confront an event so heinous - “investigating and reporting upon the facts and causes of the January 6 attack on the Capitol as well as the influencing factors that may have provoked the attack on our democracy” - could not then just be "swept under the rug" as House Minority Leader Keven McCarthy noted:

"We cannot just sweep this under the rug.
We need to know why it happened, who did it,
and people need to be held accountable for it.
And I'm committed to make sure that happens."
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Consequently, the U.S. House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol was formed, and has been successfully exposing significant aspects of the iniquity via the sworn testimonies of conservative Republican officeholders and Trump regime insiders.

A glowing testimonial to the Committee's success:

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