determined to shield themselves from an inquiry that could tarnish their party, john. >> yeah, i mean, in some ways, this mirrors what you see on the transportation infrastructure effort and more broadly what you have seen since 1994 from republicans in congress, that they don't believe that if they give any votes to democrats, that they're able to draw sharper contrast, and it doesn't matter whether you're talking about a substantive policy issue or if you're talking about an investigation into the storming of the capitol. i think republicans are looking at this as whatever comes out of this, whether it's bipartisan, whether it's partisan, they're going to end up talking about what happened on january 6th more and that's not good for them. they would like to be able to cast it as partisan, so i think that's why you saw so many republicans voting against it, although i will say, you know, these were significant bipartisan line crossings we saw in both the house and the senate, given how little of that you see at all in these days, so republicans basically don't want to talk about it anymore. i think if you talk to most democrats, they would tell you that the republicans in the senate are acting as accessories