Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., on Sunday said Congress should make the necessary changes to address the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol — and that a 9/11-style commission might only delay action on the issue.
In an interview on NBC News’ “Meet The Press,” Blunt said he’s concerned about a political bias in a commission.
“I’m not opposed to a commission, but [House] Speaker [Nancy] Pelosi [D-Calif.] has never suggested after her first suggestion that it would be overwhelmingly controlled by one side that there would be a bipartisan commission,” he said.
“In terms of securing the Capitol, whether the [Capitol] Police Board is functioning or not — not the Capitol Police, but the board that in my opinion got in the way of decisions that needed to be made that day — we know those facts,” he said.
“I think Congress itself could move forward and make the changes that need to be made,” he declared.
“Frankly, I would believe that the commission would probably be a reason to wait and not do the things that we know we need to do right now,” he added.
According to Blunt, the United States has never had a commission that tried to psychoanalyze a situation — and shouldn’t now.
“If you’re going to look at what happened, why it happened, where the problems were, that’s one thing,” he said. “I think that suggestion [to psychoanalyze] really steps this up to a very different level and certainly a level that the Congress shouldn’t wait on to decide how we move forward with the security needs of the Capitol and the country.”
“We don’t need to try to explain away or come up with alternative versions” of what happened Jan. 6, he added. “We all saw what happened. We know what happened. We know we can’t let that happen again.”
Blunt also weighed in on the Democrats’ controversial push to expand voting rights legislation.
“I’m for the Voting Rights Act and always have been. I’m for people participating. What I’m not for is a federal takeover of the election system,” he said. “I believe the election system works as well as it works because of local responsibility and diversity. And I’m for that.”
Source: Newmax
