Pennsylvania congressman chosen to lead House task force investigating Trump assassination attempt

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Pennsylvania congressman who witnessed the assassination attempt against erstwhile President Donald Trump firsthand volition pb the House task unit charged with investigating what went incorrect and recommending solutions to assistance guarantee specified an onslaught doesn't hap again.

Republican Rep. Mike Kelly represents the metropolis of Butler, wherever the July 13 onslaught occurred. He attended Trump's run rally and sponsored the authorities to make the task force, saying his assemblage was grieving and that “the radical of Butler and the radical of the United States merit answers.”

Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and Democratic person Hakeem Jeffries of New York jointly announced connected Monday that 13 lawmakers had been appointed to the task force. It volition beryllium comprised of 7 Republicans and six Democrats and volition contented a last study earlier Dec. 13. To behaviour its investigation, the House approved a resolution giving the sheet the authorization to contented subpoenas.

“We person the utmost assurance successful this bipartisan radical of steady, highly qualified, and susceptible members of Congress to determination rapidly to find the facts, guarantee accountability, and assistance marque definite specified failures ne'er hap again,” Johnson and Jeffries said successful their statement.

Many of the lawmakers person a inheritance successful instrumentality enforcement, ineligible affairs oregon the military. The sheet volition presume power and jurisdiction implicit each pending House committee investigations astir the Trump assassination attempt, streamlining the work.

The different Republican members of the task unit are Rep. Mark Green of Tennessee, the president of the Homeland Security Committee; Rep. David Joyce of Ohio, a erstwhile region prosecutor; Rep. Laurel Lee of Florida, a erstwhile adjunct U.S. attorney; Rep. Michael Waltz of Florida, a erstwhile subordinate of the U.S. Army Special Forces; Rep. Clay Higgins of Louisiana, a erstwhile Army unit sergeant and section instrumentality enforcement officer; and Rep. Pat Fallon of Texas, a erstwhile U.S. Air Force officer.

Rep. Jason Crow of Colorado volition service arsenic the pb Democratic subordinate of the committee. He is simply a decorated erstwhile Army Ranger having served successful some Iraq and Afghanistan.

Other Democratic members are Rep. Lou Correa of California, who sits connected the subcommittee that precocious visited the tract of the assassination attempt; Rep. Madeleine Dean of Pennsylvania, who served successful that state's House of Representatives for much than six years earlier coming to Congress; Rep. Chrissy Houlahan of Pennsylvania, a seasoned of the U.S. Air Force; Rep. Glenn Ivey of Maryland, a erstwhile adjunct U.S. lawyer and state’s lawyer for Prince George’s County; and Rep. Jared Moskowitz of Florida, the erstwhile manager of exigency absorption successful that state.