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WASHINGTON – Rep. Dean Phillips, who was in the House chamber when insurrectionists violently stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, was troubled on Wednesday as most of his Republican colleagues including those from Minnesota came out against a bipartisan inquiry into what happened. If anything should be unanimous in this institution, it should be this, Phillips, D-Minn., said in an interview before the vote Wednesday. Subsequent efforts by some Republicans to downplay what happened are staggering to me, he said.
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An unscalable security fence, erected after the January 6 riots, continues to surround the US Capitol in advance of US President Joe Biden s first speech to a joint session of Congress in Washington, US, on April 28, 2021.
The US House of Representatives on Wednesday voted to create an independent commission to probe the deadly on January 6 attack on the Capitol by former President Donald Trump s supporters, as one in six Republicans defied party leaders attempts to block it.
Over the past two days, House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell worked to kill a bipartisan bill to establish the commission to investigate the violence that left five dead including a Capitol Police officer.
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Two Republican members of Michigan s congressional delegation were among nearly three dozen who broke with their party Wednesday night, supporting the creation of an independent commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol by supporters of former President Donald Trump.
U.S. Reps. Peter Meijer of Grand Rapids and Fred Upton of St. Joseph voted along with Democrats and a larger-than-expected group of other Republicans, arguing that the public deserves an independent review by experts into how the Capitol was breached and why intelligence beforehand wasn t acted upon to stop the attack.
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