The select committee to investigate the January 6 insurrection will hold its first hearing on Tuesday, July 27.
It will feature Capitol Police and Metropolitan Police officers, there to give their “firsthand” accounts, per a press release from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) office.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) has still not selected his appointees — which Pelosi could veto — or even confirmed that he will pick them.
“I haven’t made a decision yet, even to appoint,” McCarthy said during a Tuesday interview on Fox News. “I’m discussing it with my members. I have a real concern, the scope of what we’re looking at.”
“Now we have Nancy Pelosi pretty much playing politics with this,” he added. “Putting Adam Schiff and Raskin on it looks more like an impeachment committee than one that wants to get to the bottom of the questions that are still out there.”
Pelosi appointed Reps. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Jamie Raskin (D-MD) to the committee, both of whom served during former President Donald Trump’s various impeachment trials.
The House passed the bill standing up the select committee in late June. Reps. Liz Cheney (R-WY) and Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) were the only Republicans to vote for it. Cheney is one of Pelosi’s appointees to serve on the committee.
From the article:
[" ‘I haven’t made a decision yet, even to appoint,’ McCarthy said during a Tuesday interview on Fox News. 'I’m discussing it with my members. I have a real concern, the scope of what we’re looking at.
‘Now we have Nancy Pelosi pretty much playing politics with this,’ he added. ‘Putting Adam Schiff and Raskin on it looks more like an impeachment committee than one that wants to get to the bottom of the questions that are still out there.’ "]
Qevin is getting Queezy, as he is Quite Qomplicit.
Yeah Mitch. We are sure that is how it will go.
Shut up Mitch, your time is done.
Hey Qevin, we don’t care if you don’t pick even one person for the committee. Qevin’s refusal to govern is no roadblock. Personally, I think the Capitol Police should have a little input into acceptance of members appointed to the committee. Rep. Cheney ® is already on the committee. The committee, thus, is by definition, bipartisan. The saboteurs that Qevin would appoint can watch the facts emerge on TV.
1/6 hearings could be the surprise TV show hit of the summer. The Watergate hearings certainly were and those hearings were boring in comparison. During Watergate hearings, there were were no reverse angles and instant replay of the insurrection upon our republic playing on the TV screens in the hearing rooms. Perhaps if the “big lie” wasn’t hoisted up the flag pole daily by top national Republican leaders, this wouldn’t be as necessary.
Qevin seems more intent on critiquing Pelosi’a choices, and thereby discrediting or hobbling the investigation, than on choosing members of his caucus for the job.