Friend,

Last week, with bipartisan support, the House passed a bill to create a bipartisan commission to probe and investigate January's insurrection at the Capitol.

Now, Mitch McConnell is vocally opposing it, putting new pressure on other Republicans in the Senate to also vote against it.

Senator McConnell and his party have not only cynically abdicated any responsibility for what happened on that day but are now actively standing in the way of a bipartisan investigation that would review the events of that fateful day, the steps that led up to it, and recommendations for the future.

Americans deserve an investigation into an event that struck at the heart of our democracy.

This is just another sign of the Republican Party's continued entanglement with Donald Trump and opposition to the truth, especially when it comes to election-related matters. We need to stop this behavior in its tracks.

We need to know what happened on January 6th in order to prevent it from happening again. We need a bipartisan investigation of the Capitol insurrection. Sign on today to urge Mitch McConnell to reconsider his opposition to the bipartisan bill that would establish this commission.

Thank you for adding your name.

Sincerely,

Patrick Leahy
U.S. Senator