McCarthy’s bid to get his GOP picks on the Capitol Riot committee with ‘Pelosi Republicans’ Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger voting with Democrats just hours before the first hearing
- McCarthy’s bid was defeated 218-197, with Cheney and Kinzinger voting against
- His resolution aimed to compel Pelosi to accept his five Republican nominees
- He withdraw the names from the commission last week when Pelosi barred Jim Jordan and Jim Banks from taking their seats
- It was the latest round in tense standoff between the Republicans and the Democrats before the first hearing on Tuesday morning
- Cheney earlier on Monday called McCarthy ‘childish’ for describing her and Kinzinger as ‘Pelosi Republicans’
The House of Representatives voted Monday night to kill a resolution from Republican leader Kevin McCarthy to get his picks on Nancy Pelosi‘s Capitol Riot Select Committee.
Republicans Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, who many inside the GOP want to see punished for choosing to take their seats on the panel, voted against the measure with the vote finishing 218-197.
McCarthy’s resolution was the last bid to compel Pelosi to accept the five Republican members and allow them to be part of the investigation he has called a ‘sham’.
The vote came just hours before the first hearing was set to begin on Tuesday into the investigation into January 6.
Cheney said on Monday that McCarthy was ‘childish’ for labeling her and Kinzinger, the only two members of the GOP on the January 6 committee, ‘Pelosi Republicans.’
‘We’ve got very serious business here. We have important work to do,’ she said to reporters on Capitol Hill.
Kinzinger told reporters on Monday that McCarthy ‘can call me whatever names he wants,’ before reassuring, ‘I’m a Republican.’
‘If the conference decided, or if Kevin decides, they want to punish Liz Cheney and I for getting to the bottom and telling the truth, I think that probably says more about them than it does for us,’ he continued in response to the House Minority leader suggesting there could be consequences for the duo.
McCarthy answered ‘we’ll see’ when asked Monday if he would punish Cheney of Wyoming and Kinzinger of Illinois for joining the Democrat-led January 6 select committee.
He called the duo of anti-Trump GOP lawmakers ‘Pelosi Republicans.’
When asked when he had last talked to them he told DailyMail.com, ‘Couldn’t tell you.’
The GOP leader is under pressure from some members of his Republican caucus to crack down on Cheney and Kinzinger, who joined the panel investigating the MAGA riot at the invitation of Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
A spokesperson for Kinzinger added, ‘It would speak volumes if he took away their committee assignments to ‘punish them’ for upholding their oath to protecting our democracy.’