House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday formally tapped GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois to the select panel investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi formally tapped Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois — a rare Donald Trump antagonist in his party — to the select panel investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection as part of a boosted Republican presence.
The addition of Kinzinger looked increasingly likely in recent days, with Pelosi teasing the appointment Sunday morning on ABC’s "This Week," acknowledging that naming Kinzinger would be part of her “plan.” The appointment followed Pelosi’s rejection of two of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s picks to serve on the panel: Reps. Jim Banks and Jim Jordan . Both are aggressive defenders of the former president, and they were already gearing up to shift the focus onto Democrats, rather than Trump and their party. The GOP leader opted to pull all five of his picks and boycott the panel, which includes Cheney and seven Democrats picked by Pelosi, in response to her vetoes.
POLITICO previously reported that Kinzinger has discussed his desire to serve on the committee, which so far counts Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney as its sole Republican member. Cheney was unseated as House Republicans' No. 3 leader by her colleagues in May after criticizing the former president and his false claims about election fraud.
Banks, who would have been the panel's top Republican before Pelosi nixed him, charged Sunday that the speaker had "predetermined a narrative" for the investigation and sought to silence Republicans who planned to ask about security failures at the Capitol on Jan. 6.
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