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NEW: From icy stares to fiery floor speeches, Democrats are demanding contrition from the Republicans tied to the January 6 MAGA attack before they'll work together again businessinsider.com/capitol-attack… by @WARojas in his @thisisinsider debut ($)

Riot-rattled Democrats want to hold accountable — and in their dream scenarios, squeeze remorse out of — Republican lawmakers who voted January 6 to overturn the presidential election results.

The pressure campaign ranges from shooting icy stares in the US Capitol's marble hallways and blasting conspiracy theorists in fiery floor speeches to reconsidering past alliances that have helped shepherd personal interests through the hyperpartisan body.

"There are other Republicans that I can work with," Hawaii Sen. Mazie Hirono told Insider. Hirono is one of 7 D senators who asked the Ethics Committee to investigate Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley's involvement in the electoral challenges that helped spur on the pro-Trump mob.

Hirono is also putting the onus on the insurrectionists to fix things.

"If they want to work with me on something, they should contact me. But I'm not holding my breath," Hirono said. "I"m not vetoing anything from them. But I need to see some effort on their part."

More than 2 months since the attack on the Capitol, tensions remain high on the House side as well. Rep. Zoe Lofgren recently released a search-friendly, 2K-page report documenting social media posts by House Rs who supported scrapping the election results.

Lofgren "Any elected Member of Congress who aided & abetted the insurrection or incited the attack seriously threatened our democratic government." They "betrayed their oath of office & would be implicated in the same constitutional provision cited in the Article of Impeachment."

One thing Rep. Madeleine Dean, a Democrat of Pennsylvania said she took away from January 6 is being choosier about legislative partners.

"I don't want to be co-lead with somebody who voted against certification," she told @thisisinsider on March 10 during a Clubhouse event.

Dean said she's talked about this new stance with Republicans who've worked with her before. "I hope you will support worthy legislation. And I hope you'll respect the line I need to draw," is part of her updated pitch, she said.

But owning up to egregious mistakes has to be a part of it. "They say, 'You know what, I got it wrong. That vote was a mistake. The president's lie was a lie.' Then I'm happy to work with them," Dean said.

Sen. Tim Kaine, who joined in lodging the ethics complaint in the Senate against Cruz and Hawley, said he did so in order to ratchet down hostilities.

"There were those who were calling for them to resign or to be censured," Kaine said of the immediate aftermath.

Kaine said he decided that the best course of action was to "give it to the most bipartisan committee there is."

"They'll get the fairest hearing there. And then let's set it aside and just go forward," Kaine said of his thinking in calling for an official investigation.

Writing people off just isn't his style, Kaine added.

"Ted [Cruz] and I are on Foreign Relations together," Kaine told Insider. "So when we can find common cause, my door's open and I imagine his is too."

Sen. Rick Scott told @thisisinsider he's been treated the same before and after January 6.

"They didn't talk to me before that," he told Insider. "Nothing's changed."

Scott said he's used to being ignored by now-Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Democratic Whip Dick Durbin.

"This place is so partisan, they don't come sit and talk to me. I mean, Joe Manchin's almost it," he said, citing the centrist from West Virginia.

Sen. Ted Cruz told Insider no Democrats, so far, have refused to work with him as punishment for the January 6 vote. Cruz declined to mention any projects he's sought bipartisan support for in recent weeks, saying only that he's working on "the business of the Senate."

Cruz has introduced 18 bills so far this session, none of which have drawn Democrat cosponsors.

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