Pelosi Wants “Subpoena Power” For Riot Commission

The Associated Press reports:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that a proposed commission to study what went wrong in the deadly Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol must be “strongly bipartisan” and have the power to subpoena witnesses, similar to a commission that studied the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Pelosi said she is working on legislation to form a commission, with the details closely mirroring the bipartisan 9/11 panel that made sweeping recommendations in 2004 to prevent another terrorist attack like the ones in New York and Washington.

Legislation to stand up the commission could be introduced as soon as this week, according to a person familiar with the planning and granted anonymity to discuss it.

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Speaker Pelosi says the 9/11-style commission looking into the Capitol insurrection has “to have subpoena power.”

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) February 18, 2021