Liz Cheney told reporters that she agreed with Nancy Pelosi's veto, adding that “at every opportunity, the minority leader has attempted to prevent the American people from understanding what happened' on Jan. 6.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi stunned the GOP on Wednesday by vetoing two of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy's choices for a select panel investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, a move all but guaranteed to spark a Republican boycott of the probe.
McCarthy issued a scorching reply that made clear he would yank his other three picks if the speaker didn't walk back her veto of Banks and Jordan, a move she's highly unlikely to make. Jordan echoed Armstrong as he walked into McCarthy’s office following the speaker's announcement: “It is unprecedented. It has never happened before ... We already know what this is: It is a partisan attack against [former] President [Donald] Trump.”
Another Democrat on the panel who asked for anonymity to speak candidly said that while they were worried about the potential disruptions the Republicans would cause, particularly Jordan, they were also determined to get to work and confident Democrats could leverage their quorum to keep the panel under control.
“It is wrong ... It’s why most of us who supported the bipartisan commission opposed the select committee bill. Pelosi will have her thumb on the scales with this partisan committee, and the findings will already be baked in,” said Rep. Don Bacon , who had strongly advocated for his GOP colleagues to support a bipartisan 9/11-style commission on the insurrection.
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