the january 6th committee entered a new phase in the investigation this week, now looking into fellow members of congress. that s been expected for some time but what s surprising is who the committee is focusing on first. you might not be familiar with republican representative scott perry of pennsylvania. he s been a member of congress since 2013, but he s largely flown out of the radar despite saying and doing things that are often beyond the pale. just in the last year, he opposed a measure condemning the q-anon conspiracy cult and voted against a bill to protect asian americans amid a rapid rise in hate crimes during the pandemic and just last week he made antimuslim remarks on the house floor during a debate about a bill to combat islamophobia. but the track record of unsavory actions starts earlier than that. in 2017 perry falsely accused a pakistani house staffer of stealing government seeks. he downplayed the devastation in