Volume 167, No. 93, covering the 1st Session of the 117th Congress (2021 – 2022), was published by the Congressional Record.
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“JANUARY 6 COMMISSION” mentioning Mitch McConnell was published in the Senate section on page S3549 on May 27.
Of the 100 senators in 117th Congress, 24 percent were women, and 76 percent were men, according to the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
Senators’ salaries are historically higher than the median US income.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
JANUARY 6 COMMISSION
Mr. McCONNELL. Madam President, now one final matter. As my colleagues know, I have been clear and unflinching in my own statements about January 6. But as I have also repeated, there is no new fact about that day we need the Democrats’ extraneous Commission to uncover.
The Department of Justice is deep into a massive criminal investigation. Four hundred and forty-plus people have already been arrested. Hundreds–hundreds–have been charged. Even more arrests are said to be planned. And the Attorney General indicates this investigation will remain a top focus. Multiple Senate committees are conducting their own bipartisan inquiries. And, obviously, the role of the former President has already been litigated exhaustively–
exhaustively–in the high-profile impeachment trial we had right here in the Senate several months ago.
I do not believe the additional extraneous Commission that Democratic leaders want would uncover crucial new facts or promote healing. Frankly, I do not believe it is even designed to do that.
That is why the Speaker’s first draft began with a laughably rigged and partisan starting point and why the current language would still lock in significant unfairness under the hood.
So I will continue to support the real, serious work of our criminal justice system and our own Senate committees, and I will continue to urge my colleagues to oppose this extraneous layer when the time comes for the Senate to vote.
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