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Editorial: These California congressmen betrayed voters on Jan. 6

US House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, Republican from California, holds his weekly press conference in Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on May 28, 2020.

As the nation absorbs the revelations from the congressional hearings on the deadly Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol — among them, that then-President Donald Trump was surrounded by aides telling him there was no evidence of voter fraud and that his scheme to have Vice President Mike Pence overturn the election results was illegal — voters must remember that 147 members of Congress were complicit in the attempted

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