Opposing View: How to investigate what happened
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell:
“The speaker’s proposal imagines something more than an investigation into the specific security failures that occurred at the Capitol. It sets the stage for a somewhat broader inquiry into ‘domestic violent extremism’ beyond just that day. But the partisan panel would get to decide which other incidents are and aren’t, quote, ‘relevant.’ ... For almost a year now, we have seen political violence and riots become an increasingly normalized phenomenon across our national life. None of us should accept this. January the 6th was uniquely grave because the intent was to interrupt a constitutional duty of Congress. But if this new commission is to go beyond a targeted after-action analysis of the security failures here at the Capitol complex … we cannot have artificial cherry-picking of which terrible behavior does and does not deserve scrutiny. We could do something narrow that looks at the Capitol, or we could potentially do something broader to analyze the full scope of the political violence problem in this country.”
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi:
“I’m disappointed in what I heard the minority leader ... say on the floor of the Senate. It was really quite stunning because, in my brief conversation with him on this subject, I had the impression that he wanted to have a Jan. 6, similar to 9/11 Commission. But what he said on the floor was really a departure from that . ... We have a domestic terrorism challenge in this country. That’s what the director of the FBI testified to the end of September. Domestic violence (is) taking more lives than international violence in this country and the biggest number since Oklahoma City. The biggest buckets under that category of domestic violence were white supremacy, anti-Semitism, and other list of xenophobia and Islamophobia . ... We want to solve this. And now, I ... will do anything to have it be bipartisan so ... that it would be well received by the American people.”
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