Three members of Pennsylvania’s congressional delegation to serve on commission investigating assassination attempt on former president Donald Trump.
Rep. Mike Kelly (R-16), representing Butler, the district where the shooting occurred, introduced the resolution and will preside.
Madeleine Dean’s representatives (D-04) and Chrissy Houlahan (D-06) are the remaining members of the committee, Keystone State MPs.
The 13-person panel includes seven Republicans and six Democrats elected by House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (DN.Y.).
The committee also includes:
- Highlight green (R-Tenn.)
- David Joyce (R-Ohio)
- Laurel Lee (R-Florida)
- Michael Waltz (R-Florida)
- Higgins Clay (R-La.)
- Pat Fallon (R-Texas)
- Jason Crow (D-Colorado)
- Lou Correa (D-California.)
- Glenn Ivey (D-Maryland)
- Jared Moskowitz (D-Florida)
Crow will be the committee’s highest-ranking member.
“We have complete confidence in this bipartisan group of permanent, highly qualified, and knowledgeable members of Congress to act quickly to establish the facts, ensure accountability, and help ensure that failures like this never happen again,” Johnson and Jeffries said in a joint statement.
“After the attempted coup, I heard calls from both sides of the barricade to lower the political temperature, to tone down the rhetoric. I support those calls” Kelly wrote in an editorial in Newsweek“I hope that by establishing a task force, we can shed light on the facts that so many Americans are desperately seeking. I know that is the case in Butler, Pennsylvania. That is why I believe the task force is critical: We need to use the collective power of Congress as a tool to dig deeper and find the facts.”
“It is a special and solemn honor for me to be appointed by Speaker Mike Johnson and Chairman Hakeem Jeffries to serve on the bipartisan task force that will investigate the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump.” Houlahan said in a press release.
“The legislation to establish this task force passed the House unanimously, underscoring the mandate of Pennsylvanians and all Americans to conduct this investigation free from political influence and divisive rhetoric. I am committed to upholding our values of truth, civility, decency and patriotism through my work on this task force.”
The investigation is one of several being conducted by lawmakers, law enforcement and federal agencies into the shooting. In the House, the task force will now “assume oversight and jurisdiction over all pending House committee investigations related to the attempted assassination of Trump” until the end of the current congressional term in January, the statement said.
Johnson and Jeffries previously said the commission would have full authority to issue subpoenas to investigate the assassination attempt on Trump during a July 13 rally in Pennsylvania.
