{"id":521907,"date":"2021-05-18T14:05:12","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T18:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=521907"},"modified":"2021-05-18T14:05:19","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T18:05:19","slug":"republicans-split-on-jan-6-commission-as-mccarthy-announces-opposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-split-on-jan-6-commission-as-mccarthy-announces-opposition\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans Split On Jan. 6 Commission As McCarthy Announces Opposition"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frepublicans-split-on-jan-6-commission-as-mccarthy-announces-opposition%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=521907&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Republicans remain divided on the scope of a commission into the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, as House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy announced his opposition to the latest bipartisan proposal.<\/p>\n<p>The vote on the commission is expected to be a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/npfandos\/status\/1394299717476028425?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">free<\/a> one for House Republicans, meaning that leadership will not instruct members to vote in a specific way. Congressional Republicans are split on the proposal agreed to by Democratic Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson and Republican New York Rep. John Katko. Their bill would create a <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/14\/lawmakers-deal-bipartisan-9-11-style-commission-capitol-riot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">commission<\/a> of five Democrats and five Republicans to investigate the Jan. 6 Capitol riot\u2019s \u201cinterference with the peaceful transfer of power\u201d and \u201cinfluencing factors that fomented such an attack.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some Republicans, most notably McCarthy, want the commission to investigate violence committed by Black Lives Matter and Antifa rioters during the summer of 2020, in addition to the Capitol riot. <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/09\/16\/george-floyd-protests-damages-protests-riots-1-billion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>(RELATED: George Floyd Protests, Riots Cost Upwards Of $1 Billion, According To Early Estimates)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cGiven the political misdirections that have marred this process, given the now duplicative and potentially counterproductive nature of this effort, and given the Speaker\u2019s shortsighted scope that does not examine interrelated forms of political violence in America, I cannot support this legislation,\u201d McCarthy <a href=\"https:\/\/uphill.thedispatch.com\/p\/house-prepares-action-on-january\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told<\/a> The Dispatch.<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/01\/14\/is-antifa-responsible-capitol-riot-donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: DCNF INVESTIGATES: Was Antifa Responsible For The Capitol Riot?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Florida Rep. Byron Donalds agrees with McCarthy. \u201cCongress has all the capability we need to investigate the January 6th attack. A special commission is not required and will continue pushing a political agenda associated with this event. The President himself called the attack the worst since the Civil War, conveniently ignoring 9\/11, Pearl Harbor, the Oklahoma City bombing, and the shooting at the congressional baseball practice in 2017. The Democrats are not interested in a fact-finding mission; they are interested in a political spectacle that will distract from the radical and failing policies they continue to promote,\u201d he told the Daily Caller.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe events of January 6th should be responsibly investigated. But to say that this bill is a responsible and proper way to do that is demonstrably false. We have an entire federal government with multiple, overlapping investigatory bodies that are designed for this purpose. The proposed commission does not have powers that existing law enforcement and existing congressional committees don\u2019t already have; however it does have an unlimited budget, and a vague mandate,\u201d Texas Rep. Chip Roy told the Daily Caller.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis commission isn\u2019t about justice, oversight or fact-finding; it\u2019s about Democrats\u2019 desperate need to keep prosecuting a former president and his supporters because their current agenda is failing the American people and destroying this country in real time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other Republicans, like Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, believe that a commission for Jan. 6 is important. \u201cMy general feeling is that if we can have a serious examination of the events leading up to, occurring, and in the aftermath of that day, we should do it. We need to learn as much as we can,\u201d he told The Dispatch.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7194365\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"36\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7194365\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7194365\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/rubio-1-scaled-1.jpg\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/rubio-1-scaled-1.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/rubio-1-180x120.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/rubio-1-620x413-1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/rubio-1-768x512-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/rubio-1-1536x1024-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/rubio-1-2048x1365-1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7194365\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ranking member Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) questions witnesses during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Capitol Hill on February 23, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo by DREW ANGERER\/POOL\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Rubio added that the violence of summer 2020 is \u201can important topic. I\u2019m not sure it should be a part of that probe or something in general. If they want to have a commission to study violence in American politics in general, that\u2019s fine too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Utah Sen. Mitt Romney <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/05\/17\/republicans-bipartisan-jan-6-commission-489149\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told<\/a> Politico, \u201cIt\u2019s entirely appropriate to understand why Jan. 6 happened, who was part of that and what lessons we can learn so something of this nature can be avoided in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans remain divided on the scope of a commission into the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, as House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy announced his opposition to the latest bipartisan proposal.The vote &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2278439,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/rubio-1-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Republicans Split On Jan. 6 Commission As McCarthy Announces Opposition","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-521907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/rubio-1-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Republicans Split On Jan. 6 Commission As McCarthy Announces Opposition","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2278439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}