Nancy Pelosi Plans to Find a Way to Investigate the Capitol Riots

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is making plans to find a new way to investigate the Capitol Riots on January 6th. Last week, Republicans in the Senate blocked the legislation to form an independent bipartisan commission with only 4 votes short of the 10 GOP Senators needed. That commission would have been a panel of 10 people who would have investigated what happened the day of the insurrection and how events escalated. In a virtual meeting with members of the House Democratic Caucus, Pelosi said she was prepared to initiate a house-led investigation despite Republican resistance and promised her colleagues to keep going until they find the truth.

During the call, Pelosi outlined options to investigate the insurrection and those options included giving the Senate a chance for another vote on the legislation to create an independent bipartisan commission, creating a new select committee in the house to do the investigation, allowing the standing committees to continue their existing probes on the riot and designating one preexisting committee to take charge of the investigation. Pelosi also tabled the idea that the Biden Administration could appoint a commission to investigate the insurrection because that commission would not have the power unless backed by congress which is unlikely.