H.R. 3233 passes with bipartisan support.
WASHINGTON, D.C.— Congresswoman Elaine Luria today spoke on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives urging her colleagues to uphold their oaths to protect and defend the Constitution. Her remarks came during the debate over H.R. 3233, legislation creating a 9/11-style commission, comprised of a group of independent, bipartisan experts, to get to the truth of how the January 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol happened and ensure that it cannot happen again.
You can see Congresswoman Luria’s speech here.
Key features of the Commission:
The Commission will be charged with (1) investigating and reporting upon the facts and causes of the January 6th attack on the Capitol as well as the influencing factors that may have provoked the attack on our democracy; (2) examining and evaluating evidence developed by relevant Federal, State, and local governments, in a manner that is respectful of ongoing investigations, regarding the facts and circumstances of the attack; (3) building upon other investigations regarding the attack and targeted violence and domestic terrorism related to such attack; and (4) reporting to the President and Congress regarding its findings, conclusions, and recommendations for corrective measures taken to prevent future acts of targeted violence and domestic terrorism, including against American democratic institutions, improve the security posture of the United States Capitol Complex in a manner that preserves the accessibility of the Capitol Complex for all Americans, and strengthen the security and resilience of nation and American democratic institutions against domestic terrorism.
Like the 9/11 Commission, the measure establishes a 10-person bipartisan commission with five commissioners, including the Chair, appointed by the Speaker of the House and the Majority Leader of the Senate and five commissioners, including the Vice Chair, appointed by the Minority Leaders of the House and Senate.
Commissioners must have significant expertise in the areas of law enforcement, civil rights, civil liberties, privacy, intelligence, and cybersecurity. Current government officers or employees are prohibited from appointment.
Like the 9/11 Commission, the Commission will be granted authority to issue subpoenas to secure information to carry out its investigation but only upon agreement between the Chair and the Vice Chair or a vote by a majority of Commission members.
The Commission will be required to issue a final report with findings regarding the facts and causes of the attack, along with recommendations to prevent future attacks on our democratic institutions, by December 31, 2021.
H.R. 3233 passed the House on a bipartisan vote of 252 to 175.
Transcript of the Congresswoman’s remarks:
Like all of us, I watched with horror as our capitol was overrun on January 6 by those seeking to overturn a free and fair election.
As a 20-year Navy veteran I swore an oath multiple times through my career to support and defend our constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic.
As Members of Congress, we swear the same oath. We swear this oath not as a member of a political party, but as Americans.
There is no carveout for political expediency.
I implore every member of this body to uphold their oath, and vote in support of this bipartisan commission. The American people deserve to understand exactly what happened that day in January.
I urge my colleagues not to turn this into a partisan litmus test, not to pit Republican against Democrat, and not to perpetuate “the big lie.”
Finding the truth should not be controversial or a question of partisanship.
This is about our shared future — the future of this Congress and the future of our Democracy.
We must do this together.
I urge an Aye vote and yield back the remainder of my time.
Paul Plante says
Our “democracy” was not attacked on 6 January 2021 or any other day, because “democracy” is only a word that means nothing, and words that mean nothing cannot be attacked.
And there was nothing of any importance to our REPUBLIC going on in the Capitol on 6 January 2021 – just an empty, meaningless political ceremony that if not conducted would have made absolutely no difference whatsoever to the functioning of our REPUBLIC.
So this so-called “commission” Congresswoman Luria is hyping is nothing more than more cheap political theater.
Paul Plante says
There is no carveout for political expediency?
The American people deserve to understand exactly what happened that day in January?
I urge my colleagues not to perpetuate “the big lie?”
Finding the truth should not be controversial or a question of partisanship?
If the Congresswoman does not want “THE BIG LIE” perpetuated, then why is lyimng to us through her teeth when she states thusly:
Like all of us, I watched with horror as our capitol was overrun on January 6 by those seeking to overturn a free and fair election.
end quotes
The capitol was overrun on January 6 by those seeking to overturn a free and fair election?
Now, people, that statement is rank BULL**** and it is stupid and ignorant besides for several reasons starting with the fact that in the United States of America, a howling mob cannot overturn a free and fair election by overrunning the capitol on January 6 or any other day for that matter.
Does the Congresswoman think we live in some third-world ****hole where howling mobs can overturn elections?
Secondly, if they wanted to overturn the election, they were quite late to the scene because the election was over in November of 2020.
By January 6, 2021, there was nothing any howling mob could overturn, and this Congresswoman must think we are all stupid and uninformed and uneducated to be feeding us that horse****, especially given the statements of Democrat BIG CHEESE Nancy Pelosi in a story in The Hill entitled “Pelosi sets up call on election challenge: ‘No situation matches Trump presidency'” by Joseph Choi on 01/03/21, THREE DAYS BEFORE whatever happened on 6 January 2021, where we had as follows:
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) in a Sunday letter told her Democratic colleagues they would discuss the process for expected challenges to the Electoral College results from House Republicans during a call on Monday.
“Over the years, we have experienced many challenges in the House, but no situation matches the Trump presidency and the Trump disrespect for the will of the people,” Pelosi wrote in her letter.
Pelosi outlined a plan for the Democratic lawmakers as they prepare to certify the Electoral College votes this week.
“If a written objection is lodged by a Member of the House and Senate, we then meet in our individual chambers for up to two hours of debate.”
“Only then will Members be recognized to speak on the Floor.”
“Unless both the House and Senate vote to reject the Electoral count for the state in question, the objection is rejected,” said Pelosi.
More than 100 House Republicans are expected to challenge the results of the election in various battleground states, and a dozen Senate Republicans have vowed to do so.
Each challenge would lead to a two-hour debate in both the House and Senate and a vote.
It is not clear how may state results will be challenged, but Pelosi indicated it could be a long night.
She said the result would end with President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris being “officially declared the next President and Vice President of the United States,” but acknowledged this declaration might have to take place in “the middle of the night.”
“On Monday, we will have a clearer picture of how many state votes will be subject to an objection,” Pelosi said.
“Our choice is not to use the forum to debate the presidency of Donald Trump.”
“While there is no doubt as to the outcome of the Biden-Harris presidency, our further success is to convince more of the American people to trust in our democratic system.”
end quotes
So with regard to the American people deserving to understand exactly what happened that day in January, we already understand it quite well.
Three days before January 6, 2021, Nancy Pelosi assured the Democrats including Congresswoman Luria that there was no doubt as to what the outcome was going to be on 6 January, and as it was turn out, Nancy was dead on the money.
So there is what we, the real American people, which means those of us who don’t drink the toxic KOOL-AID of the Democrats, need a commission to look into – how it was that three days before the electoral college votes were to be counted, Nancy Pelosi already knew the outcome.
Afterall, finding the truth of how Nancy Pelosi knew the outcome of the electoral college vote count three days before the votes were counted should not at all be controversial or a question of partisanship – it should be a straightforward inquiry with Nancy subpoenaed and put under oath in the witness chair to answer that one pertinent question – “Uh, Nancy with regard to your quote in The Hill about knowing the outcome of the electoral college vote three days before it happened, from whence came your knowledge of that?”
Afterall, people, this really is about our shared future and the future of our Republic.
And of course we must do this together, because how else could it be done?
Paul Plante says
Congresswoman Luria, who tells us she watched with horror as our capitol was overrun on January 6 by those not only seeking to overturn a free and fair election, but to almost very nearly assassinate Congresswoman AOC, also tells us that as a 20-year Navy veteran, she swore an oath multiple times through her career to support and defend our constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic, which raises a serious question of what she is doing hanging out with the likes of Nancy Pelosi if her oath means so much to her, because if there is a DOMESTIC ENEMY of OUR Constitution, it is Nancy Pelosi.
Interestingly, so did Marine Major Maj. Christopher Warnagiris – swear that same oath, I mean.
For those who don’t recognize the name, Major Warnagiris is an active-duty Marine field artillery officer currently assigned to the Marine Air-Ground Task Force Staff Training Program as part of Training and Education Command in Quantico, Virginia.
While never in command of a DESRON, none the less, in 2017 Warnagiris was the operations officer for a U.S. landing force command element aboard the French Navy amphibious assault ship Tonnerre during a two-month deployment with the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit, according to a Marine Corps story.
The deployment, dubbed “Bois Belleau 100,” commemorated the 100th anniversary of the World War I Battle of Belleau Wood in France.
His awards include the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal (three), the Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal, Sea Service Deployment Ribbon (six), Meritorious Service Medal, Navy Unit Commendation (three), Defense Meritorious Service Medal, NATO medal, Afghanistan Campaign Medal, Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal, Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, and National Defense Service Medal.
On or about 13 May 2021, Maj. Christopher Warnagiris was arrested in connection with whatever occurred at the capitol on 6 January 2021, three (3) days after Nancy Pelosi guaranteed to the Democrats that Joe Biden would be the president, in Virginia and charged with five counts, including assaulting or impeding an officer, obstruction and unlawful entry, and allegedly another serious felony for scaring the living **** out of Elaine Luria.
So it will be interesting to see if this active-duty Marine who swore an oath multiple times through his career to support and defend our constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic will plead that oath to defend his actions on the grounds that Nancy Pelosi is a clear and present danger to our Constitution.
And by the way, while I too never commanded a DESRON, but was instead a lowly grunt, way down the ladder from Congresswoman Luria’s paygrade as a DESRON commander, I still took that same oath to support and defend our constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic, and frankly, I have trouble seeing how what Elaine Luria is doing in any way supports and defends our constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic.
Seems like nothing more than cheap theater and partisan politics to me, anyway.
Stuart Bell says
It’s been 7 years since BLM was formed. They have raised over $1 Billion Dollars! They haven’t sent 1 poor black child to college or bought school supplies, fed the hungry, donated to a food bank or provided housing to 1 poor black family or 1 neighborhood cleanup.
According to FBI statistics, more than 5 thousand white American citizens, including senior citizens, men, women, children, and small babies, were murdered by black terrorists, in the United States, in the ten year period of 2010 to 2020.
The Color of Crime:
• Black males age 18-35 years of age are only 1.8% of the U.S. population, yet have committed 52% of homicides from 1980-2008. Black males (all ages) are only 6% of the U.S. population, yet commit 46% of all violent crimes, and 50% of the gun homicides. If Blacks were removed from the equation, the U.S. gun homicide rate would be equal to Great Britain’s, who have some of the most restrictive gun control laws in the world.
• The Black homicide rate is 17 per 100,000, a rate over 9x that of the White rate, and comparable to some of those most murderous countries in the world. If the homicide rate for the U.S. were the White-only rate, the homicide rate would drop 84%, making the U.S. rate comparable to European countries.
• According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics 2018 survey of criminal victimization, there were 593,598 interracial violent victimizations (excluding homicide) between Blacks and Whites last year, including White-on-Black and Black-on-White attacks. Blacks committed 537,204 of those interracial felonies, or 90 percent, and Whites committed 56,394 of them, or less than 10 percent.
• Blacks constitute 13% of the U.S. population, but represent 27% of all criminal activity in the U.S.
• According to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting for 2018, of the homicide victims for whom race was known, 53.3% were Black, 43.8% were White and 2.8% were of other races. In cases where the race of the offender was known, 54.9% were Black, 42.4% were White, and 2.7% were of other races.
• Of the nearly 770,000 violent interracial crimes committed every year involving Blacks and Whites, Blacks commit 85 percent and Whites commit 15 percent. This means that a Black is 27 times more likely to attack a White person than vice versa.
• For each one standard deviation increase in proportion of Black population, firearm homicide rate is increased by 82.8%. Therefore, the U.S. has a Black problem, not a gun or violent crime problem. When Blacks commit crimes of violence, they are nearly three times more likely than non-Blacks to use a gun, and more than twice as likely to use a knife.
• 40% of gun crime occurs in just three cities: 596 (10%) – St Louis, MO, 53 (11%) – Detroit, MI, and 1,527 (27%) – Chicago, IL.
• Murder is the leading cause of death for Black men, ages 15 to 34. Their murderers are other Black men 93 percent of the time.
• Black males between 16-35 years of age are only 2.0% of the population, yet commit 72% of the street crime in America.
• The single best indicator of violent crime levels in an area is the percentage of the population that is Black.
• If New York City were all White, the murder rate would drop by 91 percent, the robbery rate by 81 percent, and the shootings rate by 97 percent. In an all-White Chicago, murder would decline 90 percent, rape by 81 percent, and robbery by 90 percent.
• Every year, approximately 6,000 blacks are murdered. This is a number greater than white and Hispanic homicide victims combined, even though blacks are only 12 percent of the national population. Blacks of all ages are killed at six times the rate of whites and Hispanics combined. That black death-by-homicide rate is a function of the black crime rate. The national rate of homicides committed by blacks is eight times that of whites and Hispanics combined. Black males between the ages of 14 and 17 commit homicide at 10 times the rate of white and Hispanic male teens combined.
• Homicide is not the only crime that is vastly racially disproportionate. New York City is representative of other crime spreading across the country. Blacks are 23 percent of New York’s population, but they commit 75 percent of all shootings, 70 percent of all robberies, and 66 percent of all violent crime, according to the victims of, and witnesses to, those crimes. Whites are 33 percent of the New York City’s population, but they commit less than 2 percent of all shootings, 4 percent of all robberies, and 5 percent of all violent crime.
• The United States is third in murders throughout the world, but if you omit just five Black cities (Chicago, Detroit, Washington DC, St Louis, and New Orleans) from the equation, then the United States is fourth from the bottom.
• Black serial killers have comprised over half of documented serial killers since the dawn of the 21st century at 56 percent, making up a total of 40 percent in years dating back to 1900. Blacks constituted 44% of the known serial killers during the 1995-2004 period and 38.2% of all multiple murderers (serial, mass, and spree combined) during 1976-1998 period. During the 2000-2010 decade, 62% of serial killers were Black.
https://www.scribd.com/doc/…
https://www.manhattan-insti…
https://archive.org/details…
6ce3a015b806
https://archive.org/details…
2019 Data Shows 51% of Mass Shooters Were Black, Only 29% Were White:
https://summit.news/2019/08…
Paul Plante says
And here comes Charley “Chuck” Schumer with his mouth in overdrive while his brain remains disengaged, and I am referring to a Reuters video https://www.reuters.com/video/watch/gop-trying-to-sweep-the-horrors-of-jan-6-id730595846?chan=6g5ka85 GOP ‘trying to sweep the horrors’ of Jan 6 away -Schumer posted May 28, 2021 after Republicans in the U.S. Senate on Friday derailed a bipartisan inquiry into the deadly assault on the Capitol by former President Donald Trump’s supporters which caused Charley “Chuck” to go berserk, flip his lid and start raving insanely, crying out “Shame on the Republican party for trying to sweep the horrors of that day under the rug because they’re afraid of Donald Trump.”
What “horrors,” Charley “Chuck?”
What are you raving about with this “horrors” bull**** as if January 6 2021 was the first time ever that a violent mob has descended down on Washington, D.C.?
I’m older than Charley “Chuck” and I remember many violent mobs in Washington., D.C. and never have I heard the word “horror” applied to any of them, and if I had to apply the word “horror” to something, it would be the Kent State massacre on May 4, 1970, right after I got back from Democrat LBJ’s ******-up fiasco in VEET NAM when members of the Ohio National Guard fired into a crowd of Kent State University demonstrators, killing four and wounding nine Kent State students.
So that everybody can see what it is Charley “Chuck” had to add to the discussion, here is the transcript of his hysterical speech, to wit:
Chuck Schumer: (00:00)
The Republican minority just mounted a partisan filibuster against an independent commission to report on January 6th.
end quotes
And just what the **** were they going to report on that we do not already know?
Getting back to Charley “Chuck,” who doesn’t have to make any sense about anything because he is a pandering hack politician acting the fool and clown so that nobody expects sense from him, he raves on as follows:
Both efforts should have moved forward in a solidly bipartisan way, but out of fear or fealty to Donald Trump, the Republican minority just prevented the American people from getting the full truth about January 6th.
end quotes
Oh, BULL****, Charley “Chuck!”
I’m as much “the American people” as anyone else in this country, and the people I associate with are also “the American people,” and I hate to burst your bubbles for you, Charley “Chuck,” but none of them give a crap about 6 January.
It’s over.
It’s done.
“Corn Pop” Biden is president God save the nation, and Charley “Chuck,” speaking as your elder here, it is time for you to put a sock in it and move on, find something new to whine about, and if you know the “full truth” about January 6, Charley “Chuck,” then dispense with all the drama and simply tell us what it is we do not already know, which takes us back to Charley “Chuck” incessant whining, to wit:
The Republican minority just prevented the Senate from even debating the bill, no opportunity for amendments, no opportunity for debate.
end quotes
Good for them!
Getting back to more whiney drivel from Democrat Charley “Chuck,” we have:
There was an attempt by the Republican minority to shunk this vote into the dark of night, but because of today’s Senate time agreement, it was done in broad daylight.
The American people will see how each Republican senator voted.
end quotes
NOBODY CARES HOW THEY VOTED, Charley “Chuck!”
Elections are over, so stop your stupid politicking, which takes us back to more stupid politicking by Charley “Chuck,” to wit:
Now, this should have been simple.
The commission was bipartisan, independent, straight down the middle.
House Democrats accepted every change that House leadership requested.
Speaker Pelosi’s and I supported and still do support the changes Senator Collins proposed and we told that to other senators.
Senate Republicans for months publicly supported the idea of a commission, but now all of a sudden the Senate minority and the Senate minority leader waged a partisan filibuster against the bill.
end quotes
Probably because other than the Democrats, who now have been feeding us massive amounts of BULL**** about everything under the sun while holding kangaroo courts and witch hunts since Hillary Clinton lost to Trump, none of the true American people wanted more tax dollars wasted on something that nobody could trust in the first place – another BULL**** Washington, D.C. commission, that on top of the failed impeachment attempt, and the idiotic Michael Cohen hearings and those other hearings with that ex-FBI dude, all of which went nowhere and simply provided a platform for the Democrats to be on national TV day after day.
Getting back to the drivel, we have:
This vote has made it official.
Donald Trump’s big lie has now fully enveloped the Republican Party.
Trump’s big lie is now the defining principle of what’s once the party of Lincoln.
House Republicans canned Congresswoman Cheney for the crime of telling the truth that Joe Biden is president.
Republican state legislature seizing on the big lie are conducting the greatest assault on voting rights since the beginning of Jim Crow.
Republicans in both chambers are trying to rewrite history and claim that January 6th was just a peaceful protest that got a little out of hand.
And now this, a partisan blockade of a simple independent bipartisan commission.
I’ve heard all the excuses why Republicans are opposing this bill; it’s too early, it goes on too long, it’s not needed.
Almost all of these excuses are meritless and were invented in the past two weeks.
We all know what’s going on here.
Senate Republicans chose to defend the big lie because they believe anything that might upset Donald Trump could hurt them politically.
We’ve all lived through the horrors of January 6th.
I was no further than 30 feet from those white supremacist hooligans.
end quotes
And WHOA, full stop!
So what happened, Charley “Chuck?”
Did they kill you?
Did they assassinate you?
Did those “white supremacist hooligans,” as you call them lay a glove on you?
Did they take you prisoner?
And Charley “Chuck,” you’re a hotshot lawyer, so you should know about rules of evidence and standards of proof = so how was it that you knew that they were “white supremacist hooligans?”
Were they wearing signs on them to identify them to each other that said “white supremacist hooligans?”
Or are you making that up?
Which is what we need a commission for – to investigate why it is you are always lying to us.
Getting back to his whining, it continues as follows:
To my Republican colleagues, remember that day.
To my Republican colleagues, remember the savage mob calling for the execution of Mike Pence, the makeshift gallows outside the capital, men with bulletproof vests and zip ties breaking into the Senate gallery and rifling through your desks, police officers crushed between doorways.
Shame on the Republican Party for trying to sweep the horrors of that day under the rug because they’re afraid of Donald Trump.
Our democracy has long endured because leaders of good faith, even if they disagreed even at political cost, shared a fidelity to the truth.
Not so today.
I hope this is not the beginning of an effort by Senate Republicans to prevent this chamber from debating reasonable common sense legislation.
We will soon see.
After the state work period, I will bring forward legislation that would help provide equal pay for women.
Will our Republican colleagues let the Senate debate the bill or will they engage in another partisan filibuster of urgent legislation?
We will soon see.
end quotes
Yes, Charley “Chuck,” and that is always the case, is it not – we’ll soon see, just as we soon saw that your impeachment charges against Trump were all plain hog****, which we Americans call the DEMOCRAT BIG LIE,” and what a whopper it was!
It’s a miracle, Charley “Chuck,” that with all the lies you have been telling us, that your nose in not now several miles long.