Mitt Romney (UT), and
Ben Sasse (NE). Cassidy, Collins, Murkowski, Romney and Sasse all voted to convict former President Donald Trump on a charge of incitement to insurrection in February. Republican Sens.
Richard Burr (NC) and
Pat Toomey (PA), who also voted to convict Trump, voted against the motion.
Explaining why he voted yes, Cassidy said, “The investigations will happen with or without Republicans. To ensure the investigations are fair, impartial, and focused on facts, Republicans need to be involved.”
The House already approved the measure earlier this month, with 35 Republicans joining Democrats to green-light a commission by a vote of 252 to 175. But from the beginning, the measure faced an uncertain future in the Senate, which requires a quorum of three-fifths of the senators to vote to begin and end debate on legislation.
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The Senate voted 54-35 to reject the creation of a January 6 commission.
The House passed the bill in a bipartisan vote, but McCarthy and McConnell came out against it.
Republicans became hardened in their opposition to the bill over its political implications.
The Senate on Friday blocked the advancement of a bill to create a bipartisan commission to investigate the deadly January 6 Capitol riot, after weeks of hardening Republican opposition.
A motion to invoke cloture and advance the bill was defeated in a 54-35 vote, receiving the support of all present Democrats and six Republicans but failing to meet the 60-vote threshold to overcome the filibuster. Senate Republicans blocking of the bill marks their first successful legislative filibuster of the Biden administration.
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