WASHINGTON – Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif, told Democratic House members Tuesday she will create a select committee to probe the January 6 attack and insurrection, a source familiar told USA TODAY.
After USA TODAY and several other outlets reported on her announcement, Pelosi’s spokesman, Drew Hammill, later tweeted, “Clarification on tonight’s meeting of the Steering and Policy Committee. Speaker Pelosi told Members she plans to announce WHETHER she will create a select committee THIS WEEK. Her preference continues to be a bipartisan commission which Senate Republicans are blocking.”
Details of a select committee are not yet known. It would not require Republican support to establish, but they could still have some representation on the committee.
The announcement comes nearly