The effort comes after Senate Republicans blocked the formation of an independent, bipartisan commission to probe the attack, in which hundreds of former President Donald Trump's supporters violently broke into the Capitol and interrupted the certification of U.S. President Joe Biden's victory.
"The Select Committee will investigate and report upon the facts and causes of the attack and report recommendations for preventing any future assault," she said. Trump is not explicitly referenced in the legislation, which directs the select committee to investigate "facts, circumstances and causes relating to the January 6, 2021, domestic terrorist attack upon the United States Capitol Complex and relating to the interference with the peaceful transfer of power." The panel would also study "influencing factors that fomented such an attack on American representative democracy while engaged in a constitutional process.
Many Republicans have made clear that they want to move on from the Jan. 6 attack, brushing aside the many unanswered questions about the insurrection, including how the government and law enforcement missed intelligence leading up to the rioting and the role of Trump before and during the insurrection.