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US House passes bill creating Jan. 6 commission with broad powers to investigate conservative groups

Updated: May 20, 2021 at 9:57 pm EST  See Comments

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WASHINGTON, D.C., May 20, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — The U.S. House of Representatives voted in bipartisan fashion on Wednesday to create a commission for investigating the January 6 incident on Capitol Hill. Such a commission will have virtually unlimited subpoena power over conservative organizations to access their records, internal communications, and conceivably their donor lists, with full access to any and all federal agency records.

The bill, which elevates the Capitol riot to a “domestic terrorist attack,” was passed with 35 Republicans joining all of the Democrats for a final passage with a tally of 252-175.

On Tuesday, Republican Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of California released a statement opposing the bill, charging House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-California, with refusing to “negotiate in good faith on basic parameters that would govern a commission.”

“If it was a serious commission,” he said during an interview on the Ingraham Angle, “Nancy Pelosi would have had you research – remember on Good Friday an officer was killed at the Capitol – we don’t need to investigate that. What about all the riots that

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