The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol will start presenting evidence Thursday night from more than 1,000 witnesses - including a number of prominent Arizona Republicans.
The committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol subpoenaed Arizona GOP leader Kelli Ward and Rep. Mark Finchem for "information about efforts to send false slates of electors to Washington and change the outcome of the 2020 election."
Arizona PBS
July 27, 2021
U.S. Capitol Police Sgt. Aquilino Gonell gets emotional while testifying about being on the front lines of the defense of the Capitol during the Jan. 6 insurrection. During the first day of a House committee investigation of the attack, Capitol and D.C. police officers testified to being trampled and beaten, hit by thrown objects, sprayed with chemical irritants and having their lives threatened. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
From left, Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Andy Biggs and Paul Gosar, both of Arizona, were among six Republican House members who called on the Justice Department Tuesday to respond to what they called the possible mistreatment of “political prisoners” arrested in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. While the lawmakers said they deplored the violence of Jan. 6, they insisted suspects’ right must be respected. (Photo courtesy C-SPAN)
Arizona PBS By Brooke Newman/Cronkite News
May 19, 2021
Crowds clash with police and security forces outside the Capitol on Jan. 6, after thousands of then-President Donald Trump’s supporters marched from a “Stop the Steal” rally to the Capitol where lawmakers were certifying President Joe Biden’s election. (Photo by Brendan Smialowksi/AFP via Getty Images)
WASHINGTON – The House voted Wednesday to create a bipartisan 9/11-style commission to investigate the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol, despite the opposition of 175 Republicans, including all four from Arizona.
The 252-175 vote included 35 Republicans who crossed the aisle to join 217 Democrats in support of the bill that would create a 10-member commission, evenly divided between parties, to investigate the facts, causes and factors that led to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
Marie Fazio, The New York Times
Published: 27 Jan 2021 12:29 PM BdST
Updated: 27 Jan 2021 12:29 PM BdST Senator Bernie Sanders wears mittens as he attends the inauguration of Joe Biden as the 46th President of the United States on the West Front of the US Capitol in Washington, US, Jan 20, 2021. REUTERS US Senator Bernie Sanders sit socially distanced as he attends the Presidential Inauguration of Joe Biden on the West Front of the US Capitol in Washington, US, Jan 20, 2021. REUTERS Brendan Smialowksi, a decorated photographer with Agence France-Presse, outside the White House in Washington, Jan 25, 2021. Smialowksi said he had been purposefully keeping an eye on Sen Bernie Sanders before taking the mittens photo that went viral. “It was just how he was holding himself, and how he was positioning on the chair, he said. Doug Mills/The New York Times