JUST IN: Speaker Pelosi adds a second Republican, Rep. Adam Kinzinger, to committee to investigate Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has added Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger, an outspoken Trump critic, to the House select committee charged with investigating the Jan. 6 attack, she said in a statement on Sunday.
The panel will investigate the events surrounding the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol by a mob of supporters of former President Donald Trump in an effort to halt certification of his election defeat., Rep. Liz Cheney, of Wyoming, who was ousted as chairwoman of the House Republican Conference after she criticized Trump and fellow Republicans for continuing to push false claims of fraud in the 2020 election.
He has demonstrated"that he can express his opinion despite what some of his Republican colleagues might want him not to express," said Thompson on MSNBC on Sunday."An independent voice to the select committee is always welcome."Illustrating Republican reluctance to participate in the committee, Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., argued Sunday that Democrats are using the commission for political messaging.
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