'HONORED AND PROUD'
Who is serving on the January 6 select committee?
THE House voted to create a bipartisan committee to investigate the deadly January 6 Capitol riot.
The June 30 House vote agreed to establish a panel tasked with determining the root causes of the attack on the nation’s capital.
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Who is serving on the January 6 select committee?
On July 1, House Speaker announced that .
Cheney will join seven to investigate the violent in a panel chaired by Rep. Bennie Thompson.
In addition to Thompson and Cheney, Pelosi named Democratic Reps. Zoe Lofgren of California, Adam Schiff of , Pete Aguilar of California, Stephanie Murphy, of , Jamie Raskin of and Elaine Luria of .
House Speaker Pelosi said: "We're very honored and proud that she has agreed to serve on the committee."
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Cheney said she is "honored" to serve on the committee and that "Congress is obligated to conduct a full investigation of the most serious attack on our Capitol since 1814."
The committee will investigate what went wrong when hundreds of supporters broke into the Capitol.
It was approved by the House, despite objections from .
Cheney was one of only two Republicans who supported forming the committee.
"Since January 6th, the courage of my party's leaders has faded. But the threat to our Republic has not," Cheney said.
"On an almost daily basis, Donald Trump repeats the same statements that provoked violence before.
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"His attacks on our Constitution are accelerating. Our responsibility is to confront these threats, not appease and deflect."
She then claimed the January 6 Capital committee’s success will rely on it acting and deliberating “sober, professional, and non-partisan.”
What have House Republicans said about the committee formation?
Republicans have branded a “turbo-charged partisan exercise” instead of an “honest fact-finding body.”
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy had even threatened to strip Republicans of committee assignments if they accept the appointment to join the committee, an aide said Thursday.
McCarthy told reporters at his weekly press conference he was shocked Cheney had accepted a committee assignment from Pelosi.
"It would seem to me, since I didn't hear from her, that maybe she's closer to (Pelosi) than us," McCarthy said.
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On July 1, McCarthy said he wasn't threatening anyone with committee assignments, but suggested it was unprecedented for a lawmaker to accept assignments from the leader of the opposing party.
"I don't know in history where someone would go get their committee assignments from the speaker and expect them to have them from the conference as well," he said.
When asked about McCarthy's threat of removing Cheney from her committees, Pelosi said: "That's a matter for the Republican caucus."
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When will the committee's investigation start?
Pelosi did not have a time frame for when the select committee would start its work, as the next step is for McCarthy to announce his selections - if he does so.
When asked when the committee would start working, Pelosi said, "When we have a quorum."
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