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Maya Yang

House Republicans approve new panel to ‘uncover all the facts’ of January 6 attack

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Supporters of Donald Trump scale the walls of the Capitol building on 6 January 2021. Photograph: Jim Urquhart/Reuters

House Republicans have voted to establish a new subcommittee to reinvestigate the January 6 attack, a move that comes as Donald Trump has tried to rewrite the history of the most violent incident in US Capitol history.

Language to set up the Republican-led subcommittee was folded into a larger rule that passed along party lines. The new subcommittee follows Republican claims that the previous Democratic-led committee was biased against Trump.

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