Senate Bill On 1/6 Commission Fails, 6 GOP Senators Cross The Aisle

After a delay, the Senate Republicans voted to kill a bipartisan commission to investigate the January 6 Capitol insurrection. Democrats needed 10 members of the GOP to cross the aisle, just six ended up doing so.

These are the Republicans who voted yes:

• Bill Cassidy (R-LA)
• Susan Collins (R-ME)
• Lisa Murkowski (R-AK)
• Rob Portman (R-OH)
• Mitt Romney (R-UT)
• Ben Sasse (R-NE)

11 Senators didn’t even show up to vote, instead choosing to leave for the holiday weekend.

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi released a statement on the “Republican Refusal to Investigate January 6th Insurrection.” Here’s a portion of it:

“Leader McConnell and Senate Republicans’ denial of the truth of the January 6th insurrection brings shame to the Senate.  Republicans’ cowardice in rejecting the truth of that dark day makes our Capitol and our country less safe.

“As Gladys Sicknick, the mother of fallen U.S. Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, said this week, the refusal to have a January 6th Commission was a ‘slap in the faces of all the officers who did their jobs that day.’  

“Democrats worked across the aisle, agreeing to everything that Republicans asked for.  We did this in the interest of achieving a bipartisan Commission. In not taking yes for an answer, Republicans clearly put their election concerns above the security of the Congress and country.”