Wyoming’s lone congressperson will serve on a newly formed congressional committee tasked with further investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson appointed U.S. Rep. Harriet Hageman alongside four other GOP members and three Democrats on Thursday, according to the Congressional record.
Hageman’s appointment is notable as she defeated Wyoming’s former U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney, who broke from the Republican party in voting to impeach President Donald Trump for his role in the insurrection.
Cheney also served as vice chair of the original Jan. 6 committee, which interviewed over a thousand people, held a series of televised hearings and reviewed over a million documents before publishing an 814-page report in 2022. Her decision to participate in the panel — she ultimately was one of its most high-profile members — angered many Republicans in Wyoming and elsewhere. Trump even traveled to Casper for a rally focused on supporting Hageman in her 2022 race against Cheney.
Ultimately, the committee found enough evidence to convict Trump and recommended several charges to the Department of Justice. A grand jury indicted Trump in 2023, but charges were dismissed in November after Trump won the presidential election.
Earlier this month, the House voted to officially establish the new committee via a resolution.
“The resolution authorizes and directs the select subcommittee to conduct a full and complete investigation and study and issue a final report of the events surrounding January 6, 2021,” the resolution states.
The resolution authorizes its chair, Georgia Republican Rep. Barry Loudermilk, “to receive information available to the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence; to extend certain periods for questioning witnesses; and to use depositions, subpoenas, and interrogatories to collect information.”
Loudermilk told Politico there was “more politics than there was truth” in the original report. House Democrats have argued the new panel is a distraction.
Maryland Democratic Rep. Jayme Raskin, who served on the original committee, will act as an ex officio member of the new panel.
Raskin said the new committee will provide the opportunity “to examine the constantly growing criminal records of all the hundreds of violent felons, cop-beaters and white nationalists who Donald Trump pardoned and released onto our streets in his first day in office,” in a press release.
About 140 Capitol Police officers were injured on Jan. 6, making it one of the most violent days for law enforcement in recent American history. A western Wyoming man was convicted in July 2024 of assaulting officers during the Jan. 6 riot.
Hageman, for her part, has downplayed Jan. 6 and sought to relieve Trump of any blame for the attacks.
Last year, for example, she co-sponsored a resolution “expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that former President Trump did not engage in insurrection or rebellion against, nor give aid or comfort to the enemies of the United States.”
She also signed an amicus brief asking the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a lower court’s use of a certain statute in deciding the prison sentences for Jan. 6 rioters.
The committee’s final report must be completed by the end of 2026.
Yeah, we know where this is hoing. Cover up. It’s what MAGA Republicans do. Cover up for Kan. 6. Cover up for the Trump crypto scams (worse than Teapot Done). Cover up for a pedophile & child rapist. Oh, and adult women too.where are the Epstein Files. These MAGA sycophants know full it implicates Dear Leader. Disgusting.
On another statewide news outlet, Hageman is quoted as saying the original January 6 committee that Liz Cheney co-chaired was not a illegitmate committee, but the new committee is legally ordained. Sanctified if I hear her right , but we’re probably talking semantics here.
Frankly , Harriet Hagemen has it 180° out of phase backwards. The original J6 committee was wholly established and functional. Recall that the Republicans chose NOT to participate, although they were invited and had half the seats waiting for them . Only Liz and the clear headed Adam Kinziger took them up, to their esteemed credit.
Hagemen as usual is being duplicitous and using her own Alternative Facts to obfuscate. Wyoming got exactly who they voted for with her, a shapeshifting political creature.
My opinion of the representative is not fit for printing here. You people elect some real nut cases…
Violent January 6th where several hundred unarmed individuals went into the nation’s capitol (many of whom were invited in by police–it’s all on tape) and many of whom were imprisoned for months and or years…the only violence was a woman shot by the police. Liars have stated others were killed, but the fact is they died from natural causes. Liz Cheney was a left wing tool who was part of a committee not selected by her own party but by democrats. That committee’s findings were destroyed because they couldn’t come up with anything. They requested dishonest partisan witnesses, all the while ignoring the fact that Nancy Pelosi was warned by Pres. Trump that she should okay his request to deploy the national guard. She refused. The capitol police chief was not asked to testify because he would have verified that fact. Pelosi’s daughter made a videotape of her mother driving in their vehicle where she said she should have requested the NG. (It disappeared quickly) Left wing name calling–i.e., dictator, meant to inflame people to bad actions–is so tiresome, and always done by those ignoring the actual violence in left wing riots held the summer of 2020 wherein nearly 30 people were killed, and where rioters were encouraged to continue by their leaders–who also called for contributions to bail those who were arrested out of jail. No one was held accountable.
Political violence by either the left or the right is totally unacceptable.
Your comment about Liz Cheney being a left wing tool is absurd. Unlike you and others, she saw the danger Trump poses to the future of America and had the guts to try and do something about it. Hageman on the other hand, along with Lummis and Barrasso, are pitiful, weak specimens who have never had an original thought, and never will.
Angie, you’re obviously concerned about holding the left accountable over the riots that occured in 2020 that were initially triggered by police brutality in several cities. Why doesn’t it seem to bother you that over 1500 individuals who were involved in a violent insurrection at our capital on January 6th, in an attempt to overtune a fair election and keep Trump in power, were later fully pardoned by him when he returned to the presidency? Where is the accountability in that for the death, damage, and destruction caused by their misguided actions?
You say you’re tired of the name calling by the left. It goes both ways. I can assure you that those of us that don’t like the direction this country is headed right now aren’t all “left wing lunatics” (your president’s term, not mine). I suggest you watch something other than Fox News once in awhile and maybe you’ll see the problems Trump and this administration have created in the last nine months. Once your cost of living goes way up because of idiotic tariffs, your health deteriorates due to Kennedy’s mismanagement of the department of health, more basic rights are eroded, and this president’s malignant agenda becomes more and more evident, maybe you’ll have a few names to call him yourself.
Trump could of stepped in at any time and did not do anything…a black eye in history I his honor and he owns it for even starting the BIG LIE…
Why is it that right-wing activists always spread feces on the walls of buildings they occupy? Oh wait, I get it. I’ve read Jane Godel.
Excellent choice. Hageman has shown a proclivity for cleaning up the excrement of the dictator and his spawn (two of whom are her colleagues in the Wyoming delegation). What a talent– holding one’s nose and swallowing at the same time!
It would be amusing, if it weren’t grotesque, to see our strong independent Wyoming represented by a Congressional delegation that grovels unashamedly.
No way could she be bias ,it was all on tv it’s documented your waisting tax dollars.
Laughable. I was never a bug Liz Cheney fan, but at least she was an honest patriot and not a bought and paid for Trump sycophant.
A big waste of taxpayers funds and congressional time. MAGA can try to whitewash this January 6 attack on the capital however we all saw it with our own eyes 1600 criminals prosecuted and released by Trump and Hagaman goes along with the release of cop beaters. This is a joke.
Does “full and complete” mean that the new panel will determine that Trump did loose the election to Joe Biden? I seem to recall that this contention was the underlying basis for the attempted insurrection.
The rewriting of history begins.
Fox guarding the hen house.
Every action that Representative Hageman takes, with this as an excellent example, should make Wyoming voters ask themselves “is this the best that Wyoming voters can do in choosing a Congressional representative?”
Grotesque. Plain and simple. Trump should be in jail for 1/6. Our legal system failed us. And his co-conspirators before and after the fact belong there, too.
You are right. Corporate stooges should also be called out
That’s 99.9% of DC politicians, regardless of party.
Liz Cheney took the high road.
You mean she tried. Fortunatelt it is all ending well.
No, she did but low intellect MAGA traded her for this very dishonest goofball.