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Good morning, Playbookers.

It's Thursday, July 22nd.

I'm Ragumana Vallin.

And this is your Politico Playbook Daily briefing.

To interrupt you, Congresswoman Lish Cheney is speaking at Capitol Hill.

The attack on this building on January 6th was the worst attack on this capital since 1814.

It should be among the most important oversight investigations Congress has ever conducted,

but the Select Committee on January 6th hasn't even had its first hearing,

and it's already consumed by drama

after Speaker Nancy Pelosi rejected two GOP appointees, Representative Jim Jordan and Jim Banks.

When Republicans voted against an outside bipartisan commission to investigate, we called

them out for acting in cowardice. But Pelosi's move will make the investigation

even easier to dismiss for people who aren't diehard members of Team Blue. It's worth noting,

Republicans were calling the investigation as sham and vowing to undermine it even before she removed

representatives Jordan and Banks. But now, Republicans are armed with a grievance that Speaker Pelosi has decided to police which lawmakers on the other side get to sit on an investigative panel.

Democrats defended Pelosi's power play on a few grounds. If Jim Jordan spoke to Trump on January 6th, he could be considered a witness and possibly one to be subpoenaed by the committee.

Some Democrats think any Republican who objected to the electoral college results should

be barred from serving on the panel.

But Pelosi ousted only two of the three Republicans on the panel who did so, suggesting

this was not her guiding motivation.

It's important to note that Jordan and Banks,

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