VINTAGE VIOLENCE
a special committee to investigate the Capitol riot of January 6. That body’s makeup reflected the power enjoyed by House Democrats: Speaker Nancy Pelosi got to name eight members, minority leader Kevin McCarthy five. When McCarthy submitted his picks, Pelosi, in what she admitted was an “unprecedented decision,” nixed two of them—Ohioan Jim Jordan and Indiana’s Jim Banks—on the grounds that, as hard-core Trump supporters, they threatened the inquiry’s “integrity.” McCarthy, incensed, withdrew all his picks. Pelosi partly filled the resulting void by tapping Illinois’s Adam Kinzinger, an anti-Trump Republican in the mold of Liz Cheney, whom the Speaker had already included among her allotted eight, making the final count seven Democrats Pelosi liked, two Republicans she liked,
