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BumRushDaShow

(159,749 posts)
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 06:39 AM 21 hrs ago

Johnson names Republican members to GOP-led Jan. 6 committee

Source: CNN Politics

PUBLISHED Sep 11, 2025, 7:43 PM ET


House Speaker Mike Johnson has appointed five Republicans to serve on the new GOP-led select subcommittee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol. GOP Rep. Barry Loudermilk of Georgia, who led the investigation last Congress, will continue to head the probe. It will be a subcommittee on the House Judiciary Committee.

Republican Reps. Morgan Griffith of Virginia, Clay Higgins of Louisiana, Troy Nehls of Texas and Harriet Hageman of Wyoming were also named to the panel, according to an announcement made by the House clerk on Thursday.

The Republicans will join Democratic Reps. Eric Swalwell of California, Jasmine Crockett of Texas and Jared Moskowitz of Florida, who were appointed by House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. Swalwell will serve as the top Democrat on the panel.

Democrats have fiercely opposed Johnson’s creation of the new subcommittee, which Republicans say will be focused on the security breach of the Capitol, including intelligence failures at the top levels.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/11/politics/january-6-committee-congress-republicans



I am SHOCKED that he didn't pick Gymsuit, who McCarthy had intended to be on there. The other 4 originally named and pulled in 2021, were Jim Banks, Rodney Davis, Kelly Armstrong and Troy Nehls.. From that original group, the only ones still in Congress are Nehls and Gymsuit.
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Johnson names Republican members to GOP-led Jan. 6 committee (Original Post) BumRushDaShow 21 hrs ago OP
Clay Higgins is certifibly crazy! Chasstev365 21 hrs ago #1
Wasn't Loudermilk one of the tour guides for a groups of rioters in the days before the attack? Docreed2003 21 hrs ago #2
I think he was BumRushDaShow 20 hrs ago #3
Harriet Hagerman is incredibly ignorant and stupid. But, she has shown some ability to be humilialted hlthe2b 18 hrs ago #4
Mikey, putting lipstick on a pig republianmushroom 15 hrs ago #5
He thinks this revisionist bullshit is going to fly Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin 14 hrs ago #6
The conclusion will be: antifa. IcyPeas 8 hrs ago #7

Docreed2003

(18,553 posts)
2. Wasn't Loudermilk one of the tour guides for a groups of rioters in the days before the attack?
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 06:54 AM
21 hrs ago

hlthe2b

(111,240 posts)
4. Harriet Hagerman is incredibly ignorant and stupid. But, she has shown some ability to be humilialted
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 09:33 AM
18 hrs ago

(and show it) as a result, so it should prove interesting.

republianmushroom

(21,304 posts)
5. Mikey, putting lipstick on a pig
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 12:18 PM
15 hrs ago

doesn't change the fact fact it still is a pig. Let the republican "white wash" begin.

IcyPeas

(24,205 posts)
7. The conclusion will be: antifa.
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 07:51 PM
8 hrs ago

Here's my prediction for some of the alternative facts we will hear from the republican committee members from the great states of Georgia, Wyoming, Louisiana, Virginia and Texas:

- Trump didn't say to march to the Capitol.

- Some Republicans who spoke out against the president during and after the skirmish realized that were mistaken... mitch McConnell, lindsey graham, kevin mccarthy to name a few.

- Some people were just upset because the election was, after all, rigged.

- The protesters were invited in by the Capitol Police.

- Some were, in fact, tourists. Others were just peaceful patriotic protesters.

- The radical left politicized and exploited the attack in an attempt to make radical changes to election rules.

- The radical left commies milked the riot for months in order to smear trump

- They were just joking about hanging mike Pence.... they got caught up in the moment.

- The Proud Boys were just there to help with crowd control.

There! That's my prediction.

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