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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A key Democrat and Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives reached a deal to form a bipartisan commission to investigate the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol by Donald Trump’s supporters, the lawmakers said on Friday.
Democratic Representative Bennie Thompson, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, and Republican ranking member John Katko said they would introduce legislation as soon as next week to set up the investigative panel modeled after the one used to probe the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
“There has been a growing consensus that the January 6th attack is of a complexity and national significance that . we need an independent commission to investigate,” Thompson said in a statement. “Inaction – or just moving on – is simply not an option.”
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Bipartisanship Lives! The Amazing Convergence on China Policy
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Chinese staffers adjust the U.S. and Chinese flags before the opening session of trade negotiations between U.S. and Chinese trade representatives at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, February 2019.
In todayâs poisoned partisan atmosphere, where Republicans are laying systematic plans to steal the 2022 election and using the filibuster to block much of the Biden program, one remarkable island of bipartisanship stands outâChina policy.
Next week, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is likely to bring to the Senate floor a stunningly tough China bill, with wide Republican support. The bill is expected to pass overwhelmingly.
“A state-level committee of doctors should be constituted to monitor the condition of such patients in all the districts of the state and also identify other patients who may be afflicted with it and start their treatment at the earliest. “Also, the Haryana government should bear the entire cost of treatment and medicines for the patients suffering from black fungus,” the Congress leader said in a statement here.
Image from Hunter Palm s Arrest Warrant
Authorities arrested a man in Denver this week for his alleged involvement in the January 6 U.S. Capitol riot. Several of his actions, including allegedly invading Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi s office, were caught on video.
Among the videos Hunter Palm turned over to the FBI, one allegedly shows him joining a crowd on the way to Pelosi s office. Near him, someone can be heard saying, We re gonna kill her. As they reach the door of her office, another shouts, Come on you (expletive) Pelosi, get the (expletive) outta here.”
Once inside the Speaker s conference room, Palm approaches a locked laptop, asking people around him, who s good at hacking? Who s good at hacking? Photos from others in the crowd show him sitting with his feet up on the conference table, wrapped in a version of the American flag. The video captures him saying, I think I like my new dining table. I pay for it.