House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-Louisiana, and Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., on Monday announced the names of representatives for a bipartisan panel that will investigate allegations against former President Donald Trump earlier this month. Trump assassination attempt.
“We have full confidence in this bipartisan team of stable, highly qualified and capable members of Congress who will act quickly to establish the facts, ensure accountability, and help ensure that such failures Never happens again.
Pennsylvania Republican Rep. Mike Kelly will chair the task force. He specifically represents Butler, Pennsylvania, where Trump was shot and a spectator killed during an outdoor rally.
Rep. Jason Crow, D-Colo., will be the ranking member.
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House Speaker Mike Johnson (left) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (Getty Images)
Other members of the 13-member panel include Reps. Mark Green, R-Tenn., David Joyce, R-Ohio, Laurel Lee, R-Fla. State Republican Rep. Michael Waltz, Louisiana Republican Rep. Clay Higgins, Pat Fallon (R-Texas), Lou Correa (D-Calif.) ), Madeleine Dean (D-Pa.), Chrissy Holahan (D-Pa.), Glenn Ivey (D-Md.) and Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) Democrats).
“I am pleased to have the confidence of Speaker Johnson and Leader Jeffries to serve on this bipartisan task force,” Moskowitz said in a statement. “As the former director of the Florida Department of Emergency Management, I participated in after-action reviews to learn from the failures and successes of natural and man-made disasters, and as a state representative in Parkland, Florida, where 17 of the 17 people who died at my alma mater, Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School People were killed in mass shootings, and I helped form the Marjory Stoneman Douglas Commission to investigate the failures of that day.
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Rep. Mike Kelly will chair the task force. (Derek Shook, Fox News Digital)
“I look forward to working with my colleagues in a bipartisan manner to provide the American people with the answers they seek during this dark moment in our nation’s history and to develop solutions to ensure that something like this never happens again.”
Hoolahan released her own statement in response to the news, saying: “Appointed by Speaker Mike Johnson and Leader Hakeem Jeffries to serve on the bipartisan task force investigating the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump event, is a unique and solemn honor.
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After the shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13, 2024, former President Trump was ousted. (Anna Chanmemaker/Getty Images)
“The House unanimously passed the legislation needed to establish this task force, underscoring the mandate of Pennsylvanians and all Americans to conduct this investigation free from political influence and divisive rhetoric. I am committed to safeguarding our values of truth, civility, decency and patriotism: my work in this working group,” she added.
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Notably absent from the task force was Rep. Dan Goldman, D-N.Y. Last week, the congressman pushed back against Republican concerns about his potential position on the panel. Some pointed to comments he made last year suggesting Trump needed to be “eliminated.”
“As a lifelong devotee to democracy and the rule of law, Congressman Goldman immediately clarified a false statement made last November and emphasized his strong condemnation of all political violence. The congressman pointedly stated during a congressional hearing last week that “He must be held accountable for his unacceptable security breaches, and he is determined to ensure that such failures never happen again,” Goldman Sachs spokesman Madison Andrews told Fox News Digital. “
