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25 Jul, 8 tweets, 3 min read
FTR: Kinzinger is often described as anti Trump. His voting record, however, demonstrates 90.2% support for Trump and his policy agenda. Kinzinger did not vote to impeach the 1st time, favored border wall policies, tax cuts for the wealthy in '17 etc:
projects.fivethirtyeight.com/congress-trump…
Comparatively: Rep. Liz Cheney, also named by Pelosi to sit on the select 1.6 committee, heavily favored Trump's agenda and also did not vote to impeach the first time. Her record: 92.9%.
While we are here: courthousenews.com/in-their-own-w…
The first witnesses to appear Tuesday will be U.S. Capitol Police Sergeant Aquilino Gonnell, U.S. Capitol Police Private First Class Harry Dunn, and Metropolitan Police Department officers Michael Fanone and Daniel Hodges. 
courthousenews.com/in-their-own-w…
Literally, said it yesterday: Generalizing lawmakers as "anti Trump" or now, like McCarthy has said today, "Pelosi Republicans" --- not always as helpful as some people may think. This skews both Cheney and Kinzinger's actual voting records.
And Cheney's reaction appears to confirm the theory posited, this political game playing with language serves few people, just exacerbates politicization of a significant event:

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27 Jul
Good morning. The first hearing of the committee tasked to investigate the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6th gets underway today. Thread will start here. Lawmakers debut the committee with testimony from officers who were on the front lines against the mob
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I am in the room and we are about a half hour from starting. The panelists today will be US Capitol Police Sergeant Aquilino Gonnell, U.S. Capitol Police Private First Class Harry Dunn and Metropolitan Police Department officers Michael Fanone and Daniel Hodges. Image
Witnesses are taking their seats. Pictured below is Officer Michael Fanone with his hand resting on Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee's shoulder. Hodges and Dunn are seated to the left, Gonnell on the right. Image
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22 Jul
#BREAKING Chairman of the select 1/6 committee, Bennie Thompson, names the senior staff investigating the attack on the Capitol: David Buckley, Kristin Amerling, Hope Goins, Candyce Phoenix and Tim Mulvey.
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David Buckley will serve as staff director. He is an expert in insider threat protection and previously served as inspector general for the CIA.
Kristin Amerling will serve as deputy staff director & chief counsel. She is the former deputy counsel for the DoT & once served as chief counsel to the House cmtes on Energy/Commerce plus Oversight; she oversaw probes into Hurricane Katrina, '08 fin. crisis and the War in Iraq.
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22 Jul
McCarthy again calls the select committee a "sham" because Pelosi rejected Banks and Jordan, again McCarthy falsely insinuates that D's did not offer an alternative to this select cmte. Again, they did. Republicans rejected it.
Here's the problem with McCarthy's assertions: The initial proposed formation of the 1/6 Commission was negotiated on bipartisan terms, before Bennie Thompson, a Democrat, and John Kato, a Republican. It was meant to have 5 members, 5 Ds and 5 Rs.
The initial bipartisan commission proffered by Thompson and Katko would have given D's the right to choose 5, and R's the right to choose 5, with D's choosing the chair with R's choosing the vice chair.
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22 Jul
.@LeaderHoyer: "We are going to proceed. If the speaker decides to withhold the 3 and name 2 others, so be it, we're going to proceed and we're going to get the facts and get those facts known to the American people and it will be widely covered. There will be a lot of witnesses"
Hoyer: "And we're going to find out the who, the what, the where and the why that for the first time in history, Americans, Trump signs waving, stopped the business of the congress of the United States. An insurrection. And from my view, a treasonous act."
Hoyer: Your side had the opportunity to increase funding for the Capitol Police... and did your side decide to do? To a person, they voted no. We passed legislation to make the Capitol more secure and our police safer, we passed it, not with a single one of your votes.
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22 Jul
Pelosi at today's presser on 1/6 select cmte:
"It is bipartisan and has a quorum and will do the job it set out to do. That is to investigate the causes of what happened on January 6, to find out how it was organized, who paid for it..."
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Pelosi continued: "...who messaged to get those people here for the assault on the Capitol."
"It was not all love, hugs and kisses as it has been mischaracterized... Staff is being hired to do the job. We're here to get the truth, not get Trump"
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Pelosi says whether or not someone voted to overturn the election is not the criteria being considered to investigate on 1/6 cmte. She rejected one nom, she says, because he suggested the Biden administration was responsible for Jan. 6. Biden admin wasn't in office on 1.6.
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22 Jul
Oh yeah, well I tried to tell you so - yes I did - but I guess you didn't know, as the saddest story goes ... return of the masks... there it is... return of the masks... come on... return of the masks.. Oh God....
Welp, I'll be singing this to myself all day.
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