GOP wants to use Jan 6 committee to blame Pelosi for Capitol riot: CNN

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Minority House Leader Kevin McCarthy may choose five Republicans for the Jan.6 select committee. The GOP plans to use its committee seats to blame Nancy Pelosi for the Capitol riot, CNN reported. Republicans also want to blame Trump, the network said. Loading Something is loading.

The GOP plans to use Republican spots on the Jan.6 select committee to blame House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for the Capitol riot, CNN reported, citing Republican sources familiar with the talks.

The House voted earlier this week to create a committee to investigate the insurgency on the U.S. Capitol. The committee is to be made up of 13 members selected by Pelosi, a Democrat, and five of those choices are to be made in consultation with parliamentary minority leader Kevin McCarthy.

According to CNN, once McCarthy chooses his five lawmakers, the Republican plan is to argue with them that Pelosi should have done more to protect the Capitol and blame former President Donald Trump on Pelosi.

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The panel of lawmakers must investigate the Capitol riot and speak to Capitol Hill police officers about what they witnessed that day, CNN reported.

So far, Pelosi has proposed eight lawmakers to join the panel: seven Democrats and Rep. Liz Cheney, the only Republican on the committee.

A composite image of Pelosi and parliamentary minority leader Kevin McCarthy. Getty Images

It’s still unclear who McCarthy will appoint to join the committee, if any, according to CBS News.

McCarthy declined to say on Wednesday whether he would nominate members to sit on the committee, CNN reported.

“It seems pretty political to me,” he told the network.

According to Punchbowl News, McCarthy also told GOP lawmakers in a closed-door meeting on Wednesday that they would be stripped of their duties if they joined the Jan.6 select committee.

The GOP generally opposed the creation of the committee; Cheney and Rep. Adam Kinzinger, who openly criticized Trump, were the only Republicans to vote in favor of his party.

Senate Republicans had previously blocked the formation of a bipartisan commission to investigate the attack.

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