Legislation that would advance what is meant to be a bipartisan commission to probe the Jan. 6 Capitol incident is stuck in political quicksand, with fundamental differences between Democrats and Republicans over the scope of the investigation and Republican charges that it would be used in a partisan fashion to score political points.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) told MSNBC in an interview on March 17 that efforts have stalled to set up a bipartisan commission to probe the events around the Jan. 6 Capitol breach, with the main problem being what the investigation should focus on.