Joe Biden showed confidence. The president said in a television discussion on Wednesday evening that although the well has been poisoned for the past four years, he believes that everything is beginning to change. Even if not overnight. It seems to be confirmed that in the foreseeable future, Congress’s question on how to respond to the attack on the Capitol on January 6 has escalated.
Nancy PelosiThe “spokeswoman” of the House of Representatives decided to take an unusual step, even for the First House, which is always more combative than the Senate. The Democrats rejected two Republican candidates for the investigation committee. Republican Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy accused her of an unprecedented abuse of power and withdrew the other three members of the special committee he nominated.
There is only one Republican, Liz Cheney, a close enemy of Donald Trump. Pelosi once offered one of the Democratic seats on the investigative committee to the top three of the Republican faction, which recently lost its position under pressure from the former president. Moreover, to McCarthy’s anger, Cheney agreed. She is the Republican leader who voted for the impeachment of Trump for the second time in January for inciting rebellion.
Committee blocked in the Senate
The conflict started in the Senate. Of course, McCarthy also played a role. Taking the investigation of the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001 as an example, the House of Representatives voted to establish an independent committee in May. Thirty-five moderate Republicans voted with a Democrat majority. However, in the Senate, the committee was blocked: the Republican leadership ensured that the agenda item could not be convened.
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McCarthy had urged his Senate colleagues to take this step, on the grounds that, unlike the “9/11” committee, the committee’s rules of procedure might be abused in party politics. In any case, the Democrats hope to carefully plan the investigation to provide ammunition for the Congressional elections in the fall of 2022. The President’s Party retorted that McCarthy was forced by Trump to stop the investigation: if he did not follow Trump, he would do everything possible to make McCarthy’s dream of replacing Pelosi as the “speaker” after the congressional elections was shattered.
After the failure of the independent committee, Pelosi announced the establishment of a parliamentary investigation committee. McCarthy subsequently nominated members of Congress Jim Jordan and Jim Banks on Monday. Jordan is Trump’s most important ally in Congress during his presidency. After the November election, he and Banks became one of the people who spread Trump’s election fraud. Banks said after his nomination that the committee should investigate not only January 6, but also the left-wing extremist riots last summer. Jordan even called the committee “the third impeachment.”
Pelosi defended her steps by “respecting the integrity of the investigation.” McCarthy replied: “If one chooses everyone who can participate, no committee in Congress will work.” He now hopes that Republicans will investigate why Congressional police prepared so badly on January 6th—and Pelosi. What responsibility is there for this.
Biden continued to rely on common sense: “I don’t care if you think I am a reborn Satan.” The truth is: Judging from the TV images, it cannot be said that nothing happened on January 6. “You can’t listen to those people saying: It was a peaceful demonstration.”
