McCarthy said he did not watch the select committee’s first hearing investigating January 6. Many of them later walked back and forth between the House and Senate without a mask to highlight that the mask guidance is different between the two chambers, and protest its use in the House.Īnd above all, the rhetoric has reached a screeching new pitch. The House Republican Freedom Caucus held a press conference pressuring McCarthy to bring a resolution to the floor to remove Pelosi from her chair. Many in the GOP railed against guidance from Capitol Police on Thursday that said staffers and visitors could be subject to arrest for evading mask rules, even though that exact language was used in a similar release obtained by CNN that went out last year. Republicans forced multiple procedural delays on the House floor to protest the new mask mandate. Lauren Boebert threw a mask at a floor staffer when she was intercepted trying to walk onto the House floor without one.
The mask mandate being reinstated in the House has only infused another fiery level of resentment between the two parties. Many members called for order, but Raskin pushed to get Clyde to admit that he did not regret his previous statement characterizing January 6 as “a normal tourist visit” even though Clyde refused to concede that by extension he was calling the rioters from that day tourists.
Andrew Clyde and pin him down on whether he still stands by his previous comments of calling scenes of the January 6 “a normal tourist visit.” Jamie Raskin of Maryland, who serves on the select committee investigating the riot, utilized part of his time to rail on GOP Rep. And I think if we want to get back to a time where we can actually find common ground, we all got to kind of cool it a little bit.”īut things reached a fever pitch when Democratic Rep. “We’re now prone to too many generalizations here that paint people here with a broad brush that is inaccurate. “I wish we weren’t going down this road right now,” McGovern said. ‘I wish we weren’t going down this road right now’Įarlier this week, a routine Rules Committee meeting turned into a viral back-and-forth over how members talk about the January 6 insurrection.Ĭhairman of the Committee on Rules Jim McGovern, a Massachusetts Democrat, pleaded for members to stick to the topic at hand as partisan fights started brewing and detracting from members’ work. Although he says he has not spoken to McCarthy since the decision to remove Republicans from his select committee was made, hoping to let “tempers settle,” Himes told CNN he plans to reach out to Pelosi and McCarthy about finding a way to “insulate” the committee from being derailed by future political fights. Himes said he had spoken with McCarthy about his intentions for the select committee ahead of the announcement and got no indication that McCarthy would pull back his appointments until it happened. “It’s disappointing to me obviously that we got caught up in the whole January 6 committee issue because we are obviously totally, totally separate from that,” Himes told CNN. Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy had retracted his selections to the key select committee on the economy because he was still upset that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi rejected two of his picks for a much more contentious select committee: the one investigating the January 6 riot. Shortly after he was appointed to serve as chair of the select committee on Economic Disparity and Fairness in Growth, Himes found out that none of the Republicans initially announced to serve with Democrats on the committee would be joining. Just days before his confrontation with his Republican colleagues at the residence of an ambassador, Himes had fallen in the crosshairs of yet another example how political brawls are affecting unrelated business in Congress. McCarthy withdraws Republicans from a second committee The staffer cited the pushback over having to again wear masks and the reality that some lawmakers were not moved by the testimony from police officers at the select committee hearing as the sources of the new tension.
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