The Senate has pushed action into Friday on a bill to create an independent commission to study the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol by Donald Trump’s supporters.
Senate Republicans are ready to deploy the filibuster to block legislation establishing a commission on the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection.
The House has narrowly approved $1.9 billion to fortify the Capitol after the Jan. 6 insurrection. Democrats pushed past opposition from Republicans to provide emergency funding to harden the complex with retractable fencing, a quick-response force and police training.
Overnight, the House voted to form a 9/11 style commission to investigate the January attack on the Capitol. 35 Republicans broke with House Leader Kevin McCarthy by voting for the commission.
In Washington, the House is taking up a vote on creating a bipartisan commission to investigate the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Chair of the House Rules Committee Representative Jim McGovern says it should be an easy vote, but some Republicans are pushing back.
A South Carolina man accused of throwing objects at police officers, among other crimes, during the deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol has been indicted on multiple federal offenses.
House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy says he will oppose a proposal to form an independent, bipartisan commission to investigate the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol.
Federal prosecutors won’t charge a police officer who shot and killed a woman as she climbed through the broken part of a door during the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
Ten lawmakers who were in the United States Capitol during the January 6 riots are now suing former President Donald Trump. The lawsuit accuses the former president and his ex-personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, of conspiring with the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers to incite the riot.
It’s been more than a month and a half since the deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol. Now, lawmakers are holding hearings on what happened. Leaders are holding a public hearing for a joint investigation by two Senate committees.
