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Wednesday, July 21, 2021 at 7:35 pm | י ב אב תשפ א
Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, the ranking member on the House Oversight and Reform Committee, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 26, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite/File)
The top Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday withdrew his five nominees to serve on the special committee probing the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol after Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi rejected two of them.
Pelosi had earlier rejected Representatives Jim Jordan and Jim Banks, staunch defenders of former President Donald Trump, from serving on the panel investigating the Trump supporters who assaulted Congress in an attempt to stop it from certifying President Joe Biden’s election.
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Republican Rep. Liz Cheney, the former No. 3 GOP member in the House, said Wednesday that she sided with Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her decision to block two GOP lawmakers from serving on the special committee created to investigate the Jan. 6 riot.
“I agree with what the speaker has done,” Cheney, who Pelosi appointed to the panel earlier this month, told reporters outside the Capitol Wednesday.
Pelosi blocked Reps. Jim Jordan of Ohio and Jim Banks of Indiana from serving as one of five GOP appointees on the committee on Wednesday. The move overruled Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, a California Republican.
Illinois Rep. Rodney Davis (far right) is one of five Republican members pulled from January 6 committee.
(HOI) - After being selected for the January 6 committee, Central Illinois Congressman Rodney Davis will not be a part of it.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy pulled all five of his Republican picks for the committee to investigate the U.S. Capitol attacks after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi rejected two of his picks, Reps. Jim Jordan of Ohio and Jim Banks of Indiana.
Illinois Rep. Rodney Davis was one of the Republican picks.
Bradley University Executive Director of the Institute for Principled Leadership Brad McMillan said he anticipated this committee and its members to be a contentious issue because of opposing views.
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