House Speaker Nancy Pelosi plans to appoint a select committee to investigate the January 6th Capitol attack since the Senate filibustered a bill to create an independent commission which the House passed in May. 

U.S. Representative for Iowa’s 2nd District Mariannette Miller-Meeks was one of 35 House Republicans that voted in favor of that legislation. She shares her thoughts on Pelosi’s plans to further investigate the Capitol attack that resulted in six deaths, “I’ve always believed that we must get to the bottom of what happened that day and that having a more neutral bipartisan commission with equal representation would have ensured that it was not a political partisan process. So with the creation of a select committee I’m worried that it will become another political partisan exercise such as we saw with the Russian collusion hoax.”

Miller-Meeks refers to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian efforts to interfere with the 2016 presidential election, though collusion was never explicitly investigated because it’s not a legal term. She adds that it is important that Congress support the Capitol Police officers who have been blamed for the breach in security and to know where their information and orders came from.

You can hear more from Miller-Meeks during a two-part JJ Nichting Company In Touch with Southeast Iowa interview program on air and at kciiradio.com.