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Maddow Blog | Senate Republicans kill bipartisan plan for Jan. 6 commission MSNBC 1 hr ago Steve Benen
Ten days ago, on the heels of the House approving a bipartisan plan to create a Jan. 6 commission, the
Washington Post published a headcount that raised proponents hopes. By the newspaper s tally, there were seven Senate Republicans who expressed tacit interest in the proposal, and with just three more votes, success was a distinct possibility.
One of the seven was Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), who conceded the United States clearly had an insurrection on Jan. 6, and he didn t to see the violence swept under any rug.
The Senate vote, at 54-35, drew most Democrats’ votes as well as six Republicans’ support. But because the vote did not cross the 60-vote threshold necessary to break a filibuster, the Senate couldn’t take up consideration of the investigating commission, leaving the plan effectively defeated.