BREAKING: Senate Republicans have blocked a motion to create a 9/11-style bipartisan commission on the January 6 Capitol attack. 
The bill needed 60 votes to break a GOP filibuster. Under current filibuster rules, 35 senators opposing the bill were able to overpower the 54 voting to advance it. Only six GOP senators voted to support the commission.
After the vote, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer scolded Republicans. ‘Shame on the Republican Party for trying to sweep the horrors of that day under the rug because they're afraid of Donald Trump,’ he said.
The bill would have created a 10-person bipartisan commission with subpoena power to investigate the events leading up to January 6 and the attack itself.
‘I guess now we'll never know,’ said Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), one of the six GOP senators who voted for the commission. ‘Isn't that part of the problem, that we'll never know? It'll never be resolved. It'll always be hanging out there.’
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