House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday named Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois to the select committee to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
“He brings great patriotism to the committee’s mission: to find the facts and protect our democracy,” Pelosi, D-Calif., said in a statement announcing her decision. “It is imperative that we get to the truth of that day and ensure that such an attack can never again happen.”
Pelosi’s move comes after she rejected two GOP lawmakers named to the committee by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, setting off a firestorm and prompting Republican leaders to yank their entire slate of picks for the panel.
Pelosi said two of McCarthy’s choices – Reps. Jim Jordan of Ohio and Jim Banks of Indiana – would have undermined the integrity of the committee’s work because of their earlier statements about the Jan. 6 attack, in which supporters of former President Donald Trump tried to stop the certification of Joe Biden’s 2020 election as president.
