House Speaker Nancy Pelosi downplayed the lack of GOP involvement in the formation of a specially appointed commission to investigate the causes of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
“Don’t you worry about that,” the California Democrat said when a reporter asked if any Republicans were involved in the talks.
Pelosi said that “some Republicans” have heard about a revised plan to create a commission, but Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, a California Republican, told reporters Thursday he has not been contacted, nor has Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky Republican.
“I have gotten nothing from her, Leader McConnell has received nothing from her,” McCarthy said. “I’m not quite sure who she is talking to or what she is talking about.”
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Democrats and Republicans have been unable to agree to the scope and makeup of the commission, but Pelosi said she is revising the proposal to attract bipartisan support.
Democrats, however, want the panel to focus on the Jan. 6 attack and the group of pro-Trump protesters who rioted in the building.
Republicans, including McConnell, want the investigation to examine other groups, including protesters who over the summer rioted in cities across America, causing billions of dollars in damage and resulting in deaths and injuries.
“We have to agree on the scope,” Pelosi said Thursday.
McCarthy said the GOP does not want the commission to limit the investigation to Jan. 6 but to include the summer rioting as well.
“I think if you are going to have a commission, you should look at the whole, broad spectrum,” McCarthy said Thursday.
Democrats and Republicans have for weeks disagreed on the makeup of the panel.
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Democrats, who control both chambers, at first wanted the panel to include seven Democrats and four Republicans.
They are now weighing an evenly divided panel, and instead of subpoena power provided unilaterally to Democrats, both parties would have to agree on whether to issue a subpoena.
