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Title: Pelosi says special Jan. 6 Capitol siege committee with forge ahead - with or without GOP members
Post by: mystery-ak on July 23, 2021, 02:45:49 pm

Pelosi says special Jan. 6 Capitol siege committee with forge ahead - with or without GOP members

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy McCarthy calls the committee a "sham process."


By Joseph Weber

Updated: July 23, 2021 - 9:10am

   

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she’s forging ahead with her special committee to investigate the Jan 6. Capitol siege – with or without Republican members.

Pelosi staked out her position Thursday after a high-stakes exchange with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy in which he appointed five GOP members and she rejected two – prompting McCarthy to say he might withdraw all of his choices.

Pelosi declared the so-called "select" committee will take on its "deadly serious" work whether Republicans participate or not, according to the Associated Press.

McCarthy, a California Republican, called the committee a "sham process" and suggested that GOP lawmakers who take part could face consequences.

McCarthy said Pelosi’s rejection of two of the Republicans he had attempted to appoint – former President Trump allies Reps. Jim Jordan of Ohio and Jim Banks of Indiana – was an "egregious abuse of power."

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Title: Re: Pelosi says special Jan. 6 Capitol siege committee with forge ahead - with or without GOP member
Post by: Fishrrman on July 23, 2021, 11:00:01 pm
Then do so without the Republicans.

The "outcome" of your "investigation" is pre-determined, anyway.
Title: Re: Pelosi says special Jan. 6 Capitol siege committee with forge ahead - with or without GOP member
Post by: 240B on July 23, 2021, 11:07:54 pm
I don't think these morons understand what the word 'siege' means.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2y8Sx4B2Sk

Merriam-Webster

Definition of siege
1a: a military blockade of a city or fortified place to compel it to surrender
b: a persistent or serious attack (as of illness)