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Updates from the January 6 listening to: Rioters say they believed Trump urged them to assault Capitol


Democrat congressman Bennie Thompson (left) is chair of the House select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US capitol. Liz Cheney is one of two republicans on the committee
Democrat congressman Bennie Thompson (left) is chair of the Home choose committee investigating the January 6 assault on the US capitol. Liz Cheney is one in all two republicans on the committee © AP

The Home choose committee investigating the January 6 assault on the US capitol is made up of seven Democrats and two Republicans.

It’s chaired by Bennie Thompson, a Democratic congressman from Mississippi, a Capitol Hill veteran who can also be chair of the Home committee on homeland safety.

The opposite members are:

Adam Schiff, a Democrat from California, was first elected to the home in 2000. He rose to nationwide prominence as a Home prosecutor throughout then-President Donald Trump’s first Senate impeachment trial. He’s additionally the chair of the Home intelligence committee.

Zoe Lofgren, a Democrat from Northern California, has been a member of the Home since 1995. She was a member of the Home judiciary committee for Trump’s impeachments in addition to the 1998 impeachment listening to of former President Invoice Clinton.

Elaine Luria, a Democrat from Virginia, spent twenty years within the US Navy earlier than working for Congress. She serves as a consultant for Virginia’s second district, which incorporates the US Navy’s greatest base in Norfolk.

Peter Aguilar, a Democrat from California, is a member of the social gathering’s management within the Home as vice-chair of the Democratic caucus. Aguilar served as mayor of Redlands, California earlier than being elected to the Home in 2014.

Stephanie Murphy, a Democrat from Florida, represents the state’s Orlando-based seventh district. A former Pentagon staffer who’s thought to be a number one congressional reasonable, she lately introduced she is not going to search re-election this yr.

Jamie Raskin, a Democrat from Maryland, is a Harvard Regulation graduate who led the congressional prosecution crew through the second impeachment of former president Donald Trump.

Liz Cheney, the main Republican on the panel who has come beneath withering assault by her social gathering’s pro-Trump wing for her participation within the proceedings. The Wyoming lawmaker and daughter of former vice-president Dick Cheney was one in all solely 10 Republicans to vote to question Trump for his function within the assault on the US Capitol.

Adam Kinzinger, the Republican lawmaker from Illinois, who joined Cheney to vote for Trump’s impeachment for his function in instigating the assault on the Capitol. Like Cheney, he has develop into a pariah throughout the Home Republican caucus, and won’t to hunt re-election within the fall.

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