{"id":13156,"date":"2025-09-12T00:32:54","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T00:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/johnson-names-members-for-new-gop-led-house-panel-investigating-the-jan-6-attack\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T00:32:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T00:32:54","slug":"johnson-names-members-for-new-gop-led-house-panel-investigating-the-jan-6-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/johnson-names-members-for-new-gop-led-house-panel-investigating-the-jan-6-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnson names members for new GOP-led House panel investigating the Jan. 6 attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Speaker Mike Johnson selected GOP Reps. Morgan Griffith (Va.), Troy Nehls (Texas), Harriet Hageman (Wyo.) and Clay Higgins (La.) to serve on the new panel tasked with investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, led by Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.).<\/p>\n<p>Johnson also approved House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries\u2019 picks for the panel: Democratic Reps. Eric Swalwell (Calif.), Jasmine Crockett (Tex.) and Jared Moskowitz (Fla.).<\/p>\n<p>Loudermilk has said he wants to publish his own report on the events at the Capitol that day, a rebuke of the Democratic-led committee that investigated the attack in its immediate aftermath. <\/p>\n<p>House Democrats have argued the new effort is a distraction.<\/p>\n<p>The panel, which took months to formalize, is operating as a select subcommittee under House Judiciary, but Loudermilk will have full subpoena power. Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and ranking member Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) will be ex officio members. Raskin also served on the last panel tasked with investigating the attack.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Mike Johnson selected GOP Reps. Morgan Griffith (Va.), Troy Nehls (Texas), Harriet Hageman (Wyo.) and Clay Higgins (La.) to serve on the new panel tasked with investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, led by Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.). Johnson also approved House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries\u2019 picks for the panel: Democratic Reps. Eric Swalwell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}