Pelosi Anounces Select Committee to Probe Capitol Riots

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) announced that House Democrats “will form a select committee to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob, one month after Senate Republicans blocked an effort to form an independent, bipartisan commission,” the Washington Post reports.

Politico: “A select committee allows Democrats to combine existing investigations but risks being perceived as partisan. Democrats heavily criticized Republicans’ select committee to investigate the 2012 attacks in the Libyan city of Benghazi, for example.”