The Republican Party blocked the creation of a commission of inquiry into the attack on the United States Capitol in the Senate

The Republican Party blocked Senate consideration of a bill on Friday in order to create an independent commission to investigate the assault on the Capitol of January 6, What left five dead, including a policeman.

Democrats failed to reach minimum support –60– to initiate the debate within the chamber on the formation of this committee by a procedural vote. The initiative received the approval of 54 parliamentarians and the rejection of 35.

Democratic lawmakers, who have a slim majority in the upper house, they needed the support of ten conservatives, but in the end they only got six.

Republican Senators Mitt Romney, Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins -Fervent critics of Donald Trump’s administration- were among those who challenged their leaders and supported the creation of the commission.

The vote should have taken place on Thursday, but was delayed due to a prolonged debate last night on another legislative proposal to increase the competitiveness of the United States vis-à-vis China.

On January 6, hundreds of supporters of former President Donald Trump (2017-2021) stormed the seat of Congress, when a joint session of the two chambers has been held to ratify the victory of Democrat Joe Biden in the elections last November.

Apart from the five dead, nearly 140 police officers were attacked by pro-Trump protesters, who they were armed with axes, bats, hockey sticks and other weapons, according to data from the authorities. Even inside the compound, there was a shootout between protesters and security forces.

In the middle of this month, the lower house approved the gum with the proposal to create a independent commission research on these events.

This commission would take as a model that set up to investigate the attacks of September 11, 2001 and would be made up of ten members., nominated equally by Democrats and Republicans.

However, the leader of the Republican minority in the Senate, Mitch mcconnellHe had already warned that he would oppose the formation of this body.

The Tories argued that the commission should not focus only on the events of January 6, but also on the activities of the anarchist movement ANTIFA and Black Lives Matter during the summer of 2020, when protests developed over the cases of police attacks against Africans. Americans. Democrats reject it because these groups did not storm Capitol Hill and they consider that the assault deserves a specific investigation.

For their part, Republicans claim that more than 400 people were arrested for the January 6 riots, and they claim that the legal proceedings to which they were subjected will provide a better understanding of what happened.

The policeman’s mother Brian Sicknick, who died in the assault on Capitol Hill, went to Congress on Thursday to try to convince Republican senators to vote for the commission.

Speaking to reporters at the United States Congress, Gladys Sicknick, who was accompanied by her son’s companion, Sandra Garza, explained that normally he doesn’t like to be the center of attention, but this time he decided to go out publicly because he couldn’t “remain silent.

Sicknick was attacked by some of the attackers, and died a day after suffering a stroke. Last month, a coroner determined that the death was “Natural“Due to a spill.

The police men Harry Dunn and Mike Fanone, who were at the Capitol on January 6 to defend the scene, accompanied the two women on Thursday. “If January 6th hadn’t arrived, Brian would still be hereDunn said enthusiastically at a press conference in front of Mitt Romney’s office, the first Conservative lawmaker in this house to have expressed support for the commission’s creation.

With information from EFE and AFP

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