Madam Speaker, I am deeply disappointed that any of my Republican colleagues would oppose the creation of this commission.

Speaker's Pelosi select committee on January 6th is unlike any other committee in American history.

In fact, it is the most political and least legitimate committee in American history.

You would actually think it was a normal tourist visit. Those are your words.

And I stand by that exact statement. If you will read the first part of the state.

I'm not interested in that I'm asking you. You're not interested in my statement.

Mr. Chair, point of thought. You are not.

You know, we're not here to make a political point. They were here to desecrate this building and hurt people.

The actions of the January 6th committee, I believe, are a complete assault on American's liberty.

But that's why we need to establish a national commission to understand how this happened,

to gather all the facts surrounding these events, and most importantly, to ensure that it never happens again.

It may be hard to remember now, but Congress wasn't always bitterly divided about the oversight of January 6th.

Thank you, Senator Klubachar, and Senator Peters, ranking member Blunt for the way you all approach this process.

It's important that we keep it bipartisan. I would even say nonpartisan.

And I hope that our review continues to be.

That was only 16 months ago, back in March 2021.

But by now, hardly anyone remembers that the initial Senate hearings over the insurrection and riot were far from the partisan brawl that later arose.

A fair amount of the very early investigation is pretty bipartisan.

This is Molly Reynolds, a congressional scholar at the Brookings Institution and a senior editor at Law Fair.

Within about the first week after the attack, we see various congressional committees start to ask for agencies to approve.

For agencies to preserve records, and in some cases start to ask agencies to take some action in response to the attack.

Some of that is bipartisan.

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