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This week the House of Representatives pushed ahead with debate over a proposed “National Commission to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the United States Capitol Complex,” continuing an obsession with what has become a never-ending wedge issue that is invoked indiscriminately.
What happened on January 6 should not be forgotten, nor should those who broke our laws be given a free pass. They must be held accountable for their actions in accordance with America’s criminal justice system.
U.S. House approves bill that would create commission to investigate Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol
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Pro-Trump rioters climb on walls at the U.S. Capitol during a protest against the certification of the 2020 U.S. presidential election results by Congress, in Washington, D.C., on Jan.6, 2021. (STEPHANIE KEITH)
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WASHINGTON The U.S. House approved the creation of a bipartisan commission to investigate the causes of and government response to the Jan. 6 insurrection during which a pro-Donald Trump mob violently stormed the U.S. Capitol in an unsuccessful attempt to block the certification of the 2020 election results. Several Texas congressional members braced themselves that day for hand-to-hand combat but were able to escape to safety thanks to the police and successful barricades.
The 2022 Midterms Might Surprise Us | Opinion On 5/20/21 at 2:00 PM EDT
Tradition tells us that, come the midterms, the president s party loses seats in the House. If this tradition holds in 2022, that could be bad news for Democrats, whose House majority now stands at only nine seats.
But history of late doesn t seem to be commandeering the driver s seat. Right after Joe Biden turned Georgia blue,
POLITICO confidently stated that to win the state s two Senate runoffs on Jan. 5, the Democratic Party will have to defy a long track record of failure in overtime elections. So everyone believed, Democrats included. Everyone was wrong.
In response to the posters displayed by the Mumbai Congress criticising Prime Minister Narendra Modi raising questions over the export of vaccines, the BJP has said that the entire nation was fighting against two viruses- Congress and corona.