A bipartisan investigation of the Capitol riot would dig into the security breakdown and not ignore questions that didn’t conform to a Democrat Party narrative, said Rep. Jim Banks, whose appointment to a select committee was blocked by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
“If I were ranking member of the committee, we would be asking the tough questions that Pelosi doesn’t want the committee to ask, because she’s responsible but she hasn’t been held accountable for the security failures at the Capitol and [on] Jan. 6,” Banks, R-Ind., told The Daily Signal.
“The more we learn, the more we realize that there were serious security failures at the Capitol, and why doesn’t this committee want to dig into that?” Banks added later. “They don’t want to dig into it because it deviates from their political narrative.”
The House panel investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol scheduled a televised presentation in prime time Thursday night as the opener for what many Republicans consider to be a series of hearings designed to draw attention to Democrats’ version of what happened that day.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., initially named five members to the select committee, but Pelosi blocked his choice of Banks and Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio. In response, McCarthy withdrew his other appointments.
Pelosi then appointed Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., as vice chair of the panel along with Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., to give the committee the patina of bipartisanship. However, both Cheney and Kinzinger have been harsh critics of former President Donald Trump, whom Democrats single out for blame in the Capitol riot.
Hundreds of people who had just attended a pro-Trump rally entered the Capitol that day after some participants assaulted U.S. Capitol Police officers and broke into the building. Inside, a joint session of Congress was in the process of certifying the Electoral College vote sealing Joe Biden’s victory over Trump in the 2020 election.
Banks said the “breadcrumbs lead to Pelosi’s office,” because the California Democrat is responsible for overseeing security at the Capitol.
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