WASHINGTON, DC (WTAQ) — Wisconsin Democratic Senator Tammy Baldwin wants to see a commission formed on the January 6th storming of the US capitol.
Baldwin appeared Thursday on WTAQ’s ‘The Morning News with Matt and Earl’, comparing the storming to the World Trade Center attacks.
“We know that after 9/11 it was a bi-partisan commission, almost a non-partisan commission, that was set up,” Baldwin said. “We should be doing the same with the violent insurrection that occurred [on January 6th].”
The plans for the commission, which would theoretically look into the causes of the riot and how to prevent such an event in the future, passed in the house but very well could stall in the senate, where the Democrats would need ten Republican votes for the commission to be formed.
“I don’t believe this should be controversial all, and would urge everyone to move forward,” she said.
Baldwin added she knows several Republicans would be amenable to such a commission, but several key opponents could doom the effort.
“When you have [Republican Minority Leader] Mitch McConnell trying to corral his Republican members into opposing it, that creates obstacles,” Baldwin said.
Five people died either shortly before, during, or after that riot–one was shot by police, one died of a drug overdose, and three died of medical issues.
Former President Donald Trump was impeached over the riot, which Democrats accused him of inciting with his rhetoric on the November 2020 election. Trump maintains that the election was ‘stolen’.
