The Republican-led House committee on the events surrounding January 6, 2021, held its first hearing this week. The Committee seeks to address unanswered questions five years after the event.
“My objective in this committee is to get the truth, without political bias, of what happened,” said Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA), the chairman of the panel. The first hearing centered on former FBI Director Christopher Wray’s investigation into the pipe bombs and the agency’s failure to apprehend a suspect.
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) claimed that the “pipe bomber was motivated by the same lies and violent rhetoric as everybody else who followed Donald Trump’s orders on that day, and to avoid that reality, Republicans have deployed conspiracy theory after conspiracy theory about the pipe bomber.”
On the five-year anniversary of January 6, Loudermilk said the original select committee “was never about uncovering the truth or fixing the security failures—it was a partisan exercise designed to advance a narrative to target President Trump and his political allies.”
“True accountability requires focusing on facts, not selective storytelling for partisan gain,” he added. “My Select Subcommittee remains committed to transparency and accountability and ensuring the security failures that occurred on January 6 and the partisan investigation that followed never happens again.”
Upon announcing that a new subcommittee on January 6 was in the works in 2025, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said, “House Republicans are proud of our work so far in exposing the false narratives peddled by the politically motivated January 6 Select Committee during the 117th Congress, but there is still more work to be done.”
“We are establishing this Select Subcommittee to continue our efforts to uncover the full truth that is owed to the American people,” he declared.
