City’s two Congressmen split on Capitol insurrection commission
Rep. Benny Thompson, D-Mississippi (right), talks to reporters about the proposed independent, bipartisan commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the United States Capitol complex, a proposal that passed the U.S. House of Representatives May 19. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California stands at left. (Susan Walsh/AP)
U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen voted for the bipartisan panel while U.S. Rep. David Kustoff voted against the investigation. The measure passed the House with 35 Republicans voting with the Democratic majority, none of them from Tennessee.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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