Liz Cheney to Serve as Vice Chair on House Select Committee Investigating Capitol Riot

Representative Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) has been named the vice seat of the House Select Committee investigating the Capitol riot of January 6.

Cheney’s assignment was announced by Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), the committee’s chairman.

“Her enactment and insights person shaped the aboriginal enactment of the Select Committee and this assignment underscores the bipartisan quality of this effort,” helium said, lauding her “commitment” to get to the information of the substance adjacent arsenic House Republicans proceed to denigrate the committee and its purpose.

In a connection past week, Cheney said the committee would behaviour a thorough, professional, and nonpartisan investigation.

“We beryllium it to the American radical to analyse everything that led up to, and transpired on, January 6th. We volition not beryllium deterred by threats oregon attempted obstruction and we volition not remainder until our task is complete,” she said astatine the time.

The announcement comes the aforesaid time that Representative Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), successful a missive to House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, accused Cheney and Representative Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) of being “spies for the Democrats.”