In the United States, Senate Republicans successfully blocked creation of a bipartisan panel to investigate the deadly January 6 insurrection on the U.S. Capitol.
Since the January 6 insurrection on the U.S. Capitol, Democrats had been having their hands full making the rounds of Republicans, and convincing them that creating a commission to investigate the January 6 insurrection on the U.S. Capitol would benefit everyone, and even tried guilting Republicans into supporting the bill which would have created a commission to investigate the incident.
But to no avail.
“On this vote, the yeas are 54, the nays are 35. Three-fifths of the senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is not agreed to.”
The Senate vote on Friday was 54-35, leaving the bill six votes short. The bill would have formed an independent 10-member commission evenly split between the Republican and Democratic parties to investigate the deadly January 6 insurrection on the U.S Capitol, had the bill been passed.
The Republicans were dead set against voting in favour of the bill. Republicans were mostly united, but not all of them voted against the bill: Six Republicans sided with the Democrats and voted in favour of the bill.
Eleven senators - nine Republicans and two Democrats missed the vote.
Speaking after the vote, Senate majority leader, Chuck Schumer, blasted his Republican colleagues, saying the vote was part of the Republicans’ attempt to placate Trump, who was believed to have caused the January 6 insurrection, aimed at overturning Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election.
Chuck Schumer:
Shame on the Republican Party for trying to sweep the horrors of that day under the rug because of they’re afraid of Donald Trump.
House speaker Nancy Pelosi also echoed that sentiment, saying Democrats “will find the truth”.
Friday’s vote left Democrats up in arms as the bill didn’t pass as a result of the first successful use of a Senate filibuster in the Biden presidency.
The vote will likely galvanise Democratic pressure to do away with the filibuster, a time-honoured procedure typically used to kill major legislation.
Be that as it may, some Republican colleagues came to the rioters’ defence. They insisted the election was stolen from him, and one even said a video featuring the insurrection looked like “a normal tourist visit”.
Trump earlier asked Republicans to vote against the bill. And as did Senate Republican leader, Mitch McConnell, who had argued the commission would have duplicated work done by other congressional committees before the vote.
McConnell:
There’s no new fact about that day. We need the Democrats’ extraneous commission to uncover.
The insurrection was the worst on the Capitol on record. The protesters interrupted the certification of Biden’s victory in the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election. Loyal supporters of Trump also called for the hanging of then Vice President Mike Pence, who didn’t try actively like Trump to overturn Biden’s victory in the election.
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