Democratic clamor grows for select committee on Jan. 6 attack
By Mike Lillis and Scott Wong - 06/20/21 11:00 AM EDT
As Democrats chew on their options for investigating Jan. 6, the select committee is rising to the top.
Party leaders have been mulling a series of strategies for how the House might proceed on its own after the Democrats’ first choice — forming an independent, 9/11-style commission — was blocked by Senate Republicans last month.
As Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) inches closer to her decision, some members have called for the empowerment of a single sitting committee, such as Homeland Security, to take the investigative lead; others want to lend the Senate more time to round up additional support for the outside commission; and still others are urging President Biden to seat an investigative panel of his own.
But the emerging consensus appears to favor a fourth option: the creation of a special committee dedicated to examining the extraordinary and violent attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6.
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