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A tweet from former President Donald Trump is shown on a screen at the House Jan. 6 committee hearing on June 9, 2022. Jabin Botsford/POOL/AFP via Getty Images

Jan. 6 Committee’s fact‑finding and bipartisanship will lead to an impact in coming decades, if not tomorrow

Claire Leavitt, Smith College

A lot of facts have come forward through the efforts of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the United States Capitol. What will its efforts mean to the US?
Two political conservatives, Greg Jacob, former counsel to Vice President Mike Pence, and Michael Luttig, a retired judge who was an adviser to Pence, testified to the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack . AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite

Jan. 6 committee hearings show what went right, not just what went wrong

Jennifer Selin, Wayne State University

Coverage of the House Jan. 6 hearings focuses on what went wrong that led up to Trump supporters’ laying siege to the US Capitol. A government scholar looks at what went right, both then and now.

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  1. Congressional oversight
  2. Donald Trump
  3. House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol
  4. January 6 US Capitol attack
  5. Oversight
  6. Rep. Liz Cheney
  7. Thomas Jefferson
  8. Trump administration
  9. US Congress
  10. Watergate

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