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Democrats' Partisan Jan. 6th Committee

June 8, 2022
Weekly Columns

While Americans are suffering from record-breaking prices at the pump and skyrocketing inflation, Democrats are focused on utilizing their media allies to choreograph political theatre. After a year of overreaching subpoenas and dramatized hearings, the next show trial event from the January 6 Select Committee will take place Thursday, during prime time. This further proves that this biased committee does not intend to investigate what occurred on Jan. 6, but instead weaponize the government for their own political gain.

As you may remember, there were two bills voted on by the House of Representatives last year regarding Jan. 6. I voted in favor to establish a fair, nonpartisan commission, modeled on the September 11 Commission, to fully investigate the security failure and ensure that this incident at our Nation’s Capital would not happen again. In my opinion, it was essential to hold Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the leadership of the Capitol Police, and the Sergeant at Arms, who all directly oversee the Capitol complex security, accountable for the lack of transparency and failure to prepare and respond to this breach.

However, I vehemently opposed legislation that established the January 6 Select Committee, because I was deeply concerned it would be nothing but political theater for House Democrats. Sadly, this is precisely what we are witnessing today. In creating the membership of this committee, Speaker Pelosi broke 232 years of House precedent, trampling over the rights of the Minority party, by rejecting Republican’s chosen Members, including Rep. Banks (R-IN) and Rep. Jordan (R-OH). This move eliminated the objectivity and legitimacy of this committee from the very start.

Thursday’s hearing, which is being overseen by former ABC President, James Goldston, is just one of the many instances of the weaponization of this committee. Now, many Democrats on the committee are even using it to call for the dismantling of our institutions, including the electoral college. They have also called to nationalize all election laws completely disregarding federalism and trampling over states’ rights. A major goal of the committee is becoming increasingly clear: to normalize and ram through a far-left agenda.

I strongly opposed what we are seeing today, which is a dangerous, political stunt. Our country could have benefited from a bipartisan commission that would have worked to protect the People’s House and keep Americans who visit and work there safe and secure in the future, while also holding Pelosi and those in charge accountable for their failures. Unfortunately, the reasons why I voted against the Jan. 6 Select Committee have come true. No progress has been made, Republicans have no voice, and Democrats continue their witch hunt against the Republican party to distract from their catastrophic foreign and domestic policy failures.