A vote on the resolution to approve the panel’s formation will be held after the month-long August recess.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) announced on July 23 that Republicans would pursue passage of a resolution to form a new subcommittee that would investigate events surrounding the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol breach.
If the resolution, introduced by Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.), is approved by the House, it would authorize the creation of the second House panel dedicated to exploring the events of the day, when protestors entered the U.S. Capitol, causing a delay in the certification of the 2020 election results.
Loudermilk filed the resolution as lawmakers were leaving for their month-long August recess. It will receive a vote when Congress returns in September.
The authorization of the subcommittee, promised by Johnson at the start of the 119th Congress, has been delayed for months, with work on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act taking precedence.
The first subcommittee investigating the events—the Select Subcommittee to Investigate the Jan. 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol—was established in June 2021 and included only two Republicans, Reps. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) and Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.).
Critics accused the panel of bias against then-former President Donald Trump and of not considering certain pieces of evidence.
Several of Trump’s allies, most prominently Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro, were imprisoned on contempt of Congress charges for their refusal to cooperate with the probe.
Loudermilk was also targeted for investigation by the panel regarding a tour he gave of the Capitol complex ahead of Jan. 6. If the resolution is approved by the House, he’d be the chairman of the new panel.
During the previous Congress, Loudermilk served on the House Administration Committee’s Subcommittee on Oversight, which investigated the events surrounding the day and the previous subcommittee’s handling of the issue.
In a report issued in December 2024, the committee alleged a litany of errors in how the original Jan. 6 panel had managed its investigation, recommending potential criminal investigations into Cheney and calling the panel “improperly constituted and [lacking] authority.”
By Joseph Lord
