Sept. 9 (UPI) — House Democrats named four new members to the new subcommittee to reinvestigate the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
The eight-member committee will do a Republican-led investigation into the events of Jan. 6, when a mob of protestors attacked the U.S. Capitol in support of President Donald Trump. It will likely look at security failures on that day.
House Democratic Minority Leader Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., announced Monday that Reps. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif.; Jared Moskowitz, D-Fla.; and Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas; will participate in the committee. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., will be an ex officio member.
“Instead of lowering costs for everyday Americans, House Republicans are once again trying to rewrite history and corrupt our electoral system,” Jeffries said in a statement. “House Democrats will continue to forcefully and aggressively push back, as we did with [President] Donald Trump’s second impeachment and the work done by the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th attack on the United States Capitol.”
“We will not allow Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans to whitewash the violence and vile attack on the American way of life that occurred on January 6th,” Jeffries said.
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., will choose who Republicans will put on the committee but hasn’t announced his picks yet. Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., is expected to lead the committee, the Washington Post reported.
On Wednesday, Republicans in the House voted to authorize a subcommittee to re-investigate the events of Jan. 6 and look at the previous Democrat-run Jan. 6 committee.
Jeffries said of Swalwell: “As the proud son of a cop, highly accomplished former prosecutor and skilled legislator experienced in holding powerful Washington politicians accountable, Rep. Swalwell will relentlessly ensure that the American people never forget who was responsible for the events of January 6th.”
The previous Jan. 6 committee was run by Republicans Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., and Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill. The 845-page document — which came out days after the panel recommended four criminal charges against President Donald Trump to the Justice Department — clearly named him as being the central figure that spurred the mob of his supporters to besiege the Capitol in an attempt to prevent the certification of Joe Biden as the 46th president of the United States. The report also recommended that the House consider banning Trump from running for office again.
But Republicans in the House have since said that the previous committee was biased against Trump.
At least five people were killed in connection to the siege of the Capitol, and more than 140 police officers were injured as they tried to thwart the mob of pro-Trump supporters from attacking the building.