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Favor by voting down the bipartisan commission that chairman thompson and ranking member katko negotiated. i didn't hear a lot of screamin that was wrong. it's now on us to move forward with the commission and to just make sure that we seek the truth and we follow the facts. so that's what we plan to do. we have a quorum of the committee constituted. so we're going to start having conversations and building staff. we're not going to wait for kevin mccarthy to take the temperature of his conference before he does anything. we're going to proceed. and we're going to start our work. >> there are ...

Capitol. so we have to fix it. we have a good team of members assembled already. as you know, liz cheney is one of the individuals who is on the committee. she's a wonderful member of congress. i look forward to working with her and my committee, the homeland security committee, it's a bipartisan committee. we wanted more bipartisan committees in congress because we want to get it done. when crazy folk like those who showed up on january 6 -- they don't care whether you are republican or democrat or independent. they just want to hurt you. those kinds of individuals we have to protect our citi...

As governor greg abbott pushes conservative policies signing bills that made their way through the republican-led legislature. yesterday he defunded the entire state legislature as a way to punish democrats who staged a walkout over restrictive roting bill, his move impacting legislative staffers the most. this all coming after he vowed to continue to build trump's border wall. expanding gun rights, ban critical race theory in schools and one of the most restrictive abortion members in may. miss thompson, so good to see you. i know y'all in texas do things bigger, but wow. what is happening? >...

Citizen, regardless of whether you are a democrat or a republican, independent, green party or so forth and so on. and to be able to talk about how important it was for us to be able to preserve the right to vote for every citizen was really refreshing. >> is you ever think you would see a black female vice president in your lifetime? >> no, i did not. but it is a delightful surprise. >> no doubt. all right. well, it was a pleasure for us to have you here with us. really appreciate it. happy juneteenth. >> and the same to you. >> thank you very much. representative thompson, great state of tex...

A bill forming a commission to formally investigate the attack on the U.S. Capitol that left five dead may clear the House of Representatives soon. House Rules Committee Chairman Jim McGovern hosts a meeting to debate amendments for a bill that would stand up a commission to investigate the intelligence failures that lead to the January 6 attack and a $1.9 billion emergency security spending fund for the U.S. Capitol complex. (Screenshot via Courthouse News) WASHINGTON (CN) — Over the vociferous objection of House of Representatives GOP leader Kevin McCarthy and others, lawmakers appeared...