WASHINGTON — After closing out what could be the final installment in a series of high-profile hearings, the House's Jan. 6 select committee is left with decisions to make in its remaining weeks that could have profound effects for years to come.
The committee will need to square whether it will play a role in the Justice Department's investigation and determine how the raw information it has collected will be preserved and disseminated. But ultimately the panel's largest decisions will be about what recommendations to make and what information its final report should contain.
Republican leaders had fought the creation of an independent commission to review the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol and what led to it. The House panel is the only government entity tasked with the inquiry, and is compiling what is expected to be the definitive historical record of what led to the insurrection.
