R&I NV — Opinion by Julian Zelizer, CNN Political Analyst
Updated 7:54 AM ET, Fri July 2, 2021
(CNN)House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is refusing to give ground on the effort to investigate the January 6 insurrection. After the House voted to establish a new select committee to investigate the attack on the US Capitol, McCarthy threatened to strip Republicans of their committee assignments if they agreed to join it, according to a CNN report that cited to GOP sources. (He denied the reports on Thursday, saying, “I’m not making any threats” about committee assignments.)
But that threat did little to stop Republican Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, who defied McCarthy and her party by accepting House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s offer to join the panel. McCarthy, who responded by saying he was shocked, took the opportunity to knock Cheney. “It would seem to me, since I didn’t hear from her, that maybe she’s closer to (Pelosi) than us,” he said. McCarthy, of course, backed the effort to oust Cheney from her leadership role in May after she repeatedly spoke out against former President Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election.
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