WASHINGTON – The Republican-controlled House of Representatives voted on party lines on Aug. 3 to create a special panel to reinvestigate the events of the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection.
Steered by Republicans, the new subcommittee's creation is an escalation of the party's rewriting of the history of the deadly assault on the U.S. Capitol. The historic attacks by some of President Donald Trump's supporters disrupted the peaceful transfer of power after former President Joe Biden won the 2020 election.
In 2022, after 18 months of investigating the events leading up to the insurrection, the original House Jan. 6 committee found that Trump was the "central cause" of the riots. The panel of lawmakers decided unanimously to issue four criminal referrals against Trump to the Justice Department, accusing him of conspiracy to defraud the United States and inciting an insurrection.
The committee's two Republicans and seven Democrats − all appointed by former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-California − held a series of dramatic hearings about their findings drawing millions of viewers. Then-House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, a Republican, retracted his choices to serve on the committee.
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