252-175
Here’s a surprise – the House did approve the January 6 commission because 35 Republicans voted for it.
The House of Representatives voted 252-175 on Wednesday to pass a bill to set up a bipartisan 9/11-style commission to investigate the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol riots.
Why it matters: Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy andGOP leadership oppose the commission, but 35 House Republicans voted in support of the bill, underscoring the fault lines within the party in the aftermath of the insurrection.
The amount of Republican support makes it far more difficult for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to try and dismiss the commission outright as a partisan effort.
Interesting.
How many Senators do they need, anyway? Surely 49 Democratic Senators will vote for it, and almost certainly Romney, and, I think, probably Manchin, and that’s already 51.
They need 60.
Hmm. So who knows, it’s possible.
Well, the putsch wasn’t ‘bipartisan’ either.
It’s “possible,” the way any long shot is possible, but it’s viewed as extremely unlikely, aka all but impossible.
Ah, only 7 Republican Senators voted to impeach Trump. For some reason I had remembered ten.