House leadership appoints Trump shooting task force members
Speaker Mike Johnson and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries rolled out members of a bipartisan task force Monday to investigate the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump.
“We have the utmost confidence in this bipartisan group of steady, highly qualified, and capable Members of Congress to move quickly to find the facts, ensure accountability, and help make certain such failures never happen again,” Johnson and Jeffries said in a joint statement.
The task force will be led by Rep. Mike Kelly (R-Pa.), who represents Butler, Pennsylvania, the site of the shooting at a campaign rally.
The rollout of the members comes after the House voted unanimously last week to form the task force, which will need to release its final report by mid-December. Johnson and Jeffries spent days talking behind the scenes as they tried to land on a bipartisan way forward for the group.
The formation of the task force is meant to wrangle the House’s various ongoing investigations into the assassination attempt, with the House Oversight, Homeland Security and Judiciary committees already standing up their own probes in the wake of the shooting.
The new group will have control and jurisdiction over any other House investigations. Beyond congressional investigations, the administration is conducting several probes, including through the FBI, an independent panel ordered by President Joe Biden and the Department of Homeland Security inspector general.
In addition to Kelly, the Republicans on the task force will be: Reps. Mark Green (Tenn.), David Joyce (Ohio), Laurel Lee (Fla.), Michael Waltz (Fla.), Clay Higgins (La.) and Pat Fallon (Texas).
Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colo.) will be the top Democrat on the task force. Democratic Reps. Lou Correa (Calif.), Madeleine Dean (Pa.), Chrissy Houlahan (Pa.), Glenn Ivey (Md.) and Jared Moskowitz (Fla.) will also be on the panel.