The new investigation of the January 6 attack is an opportunity for the division bridge

On September 3, the House of Representatives issued a decision to establish a new sub -committee to investigate the remaining questions surrounding the attack on the Capitol in the United States on January 6, 2021. The five Republicans and Democrats who have now been in the committee may have a different interest in this matter.

The two parties will also reflect the will of the American people. Kristen Saltis Anderson, a Republican reconnaissance expert, also noticed in a recent article, the politicians may be extreme, but among the voters, the center is alive and in good health, full of citizens who want their leaders to integrate good ideas from the left and right.

Many may ask about the reason that Congress reopened this event after the extensive work of the original January 6 selection committee, which had membership of the two parties, conducted more than 1,000 interviews and deposits, held nine general listening sessions of more than 70 witnesses, and in 2022 it issued a report based on 814 pages with specific recommendations and criminal devices.

Many Republicans reject the results of the original January 6 Committee, because the Republican members of the committee were chosen by Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif), instead of the Republican leadership. Democrats respond that the Republican leadership did not leave Pelosi any choice but to choose the Republican members themselves, after the Republican leaders in the House of Representatives prevented an independent committee and insisted that the chosen committee includes the members who voted against ratification of the elections, and even the person who was a financial witness in the investigation.

Although the chosen membership of the new sub-committee is not subject to such conflicts, its work will not be reliable except on both sides of the corridor if the chairman of the board of directors is Barry Laudermek (R-GA), and the arrangement member Eric Salwell (D-Calif), and all members of the sub-committee work together in transparent, Bipartisan.

Fortunately, there is a model for such a party approach in the form of a committee that was created a few years ago to update home operations. Now a permanent sub -committee, the update committee is working in a way of two parties, relying on the joint decisions by its president and classifying the minority members of decisions on listening sessions, memoirs, documents requests, witnesses of witnesses and more. The update committee, which won the approval of the House of Representatives for many of its proposals, resolves the factors through open discussion, and if necessary, through votes, instead of working from one side.

The democratic leadership of the new January 6 committee has submitted eight cases to the sub -committee that must be taken into account, including whether the enhanced security measures protect adequate members of Congress. The majority must be considered, present a list of their own issues, and sets the priorities of the consensus, and includes those in the investigation plan from the two parties. This plan, which should be publicly published, can cover the requests for documents, interviews, public sessions and final recommendations. This is how to achieve an investigation from the two parties that will be reliable and effective.

Like the unreasonable pardon of President Trump from the violent perpetrators on January 6, which was criticized by both Democrats and Republicans, the party examination of these events could become a platform for taste or normalizing the behavior of those responsible for brutal attacks on our law enforcement staff and the rule of law. The leaders of this investigation must maintain their focus on the vital questions raised by the attack and reject any effort to describe the events that the Americans witnessed according to the necessity or legal on that tragic day.

By adopting a collaborative, transparent and factory approach, this sub -committee will clarify how to involve members’ opinions from all over the political spectrum. To what extent the Congress can designing the leadership of most Americans by employing it to build a consensus on the day its homeland and democracy was attacked.

Jim Townsin is the director of the Carl Levin Center for Supervision and Democracy at the Faculty of Law at Wayne State University, which is conducting workshops in the legislative councils in Congress and the state on how to perform the two facts -based parties.