House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-New York) on Monday announced the leaders who have been appointed to a bipartisan commission investigating the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump earlier this month.
“We have the utmost confidence that this bipartisan, stalwart, extremely competent and capable group of lawmakers will act swiftly to find the facts, ensure accountability, and ensure that failures like this never happen again,” they said in a joint statement.
The task force is chaired by Republican Rep. Mike Kelly of Pennsylvania, who represents the city of Butler, where a gunman was shot at an outdoor rally held by Trump that left one spectator dead.
Rep. Jason Crow, Democrat of Colorado, will run for the Senate.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (left) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (Getty Images)
The other members of the 13-member committee are Rep. Mark Green (R-Tenn.), Rep. David Joyce (R-Ohio), Rep. Laurel Lee (R-Fla.), Rep. Michael Waltz (R-Fla.), Rep. Clay Higgins (R-Louisiana), Rep. Pat Fallon (R-Texas), Rep. Lou Collier (D-Calif.), Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-Pennsylvania), Rep. Chrissy Houlahan (D-Pennsylvania), Rep. Glenn Ivey (D-Md.) and Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.).
“I appreciate the confidence Speaker Johnson and Leader Jeffries have placed in me to serve on this bipartisan task force,” Moskowitz said in a statement. “As the former Director of the Florida Department of Emergency Management, I have been involved in post-mortems to learn from failures and successes in both natural and man-made disasters. And as a state legislator representing Parkland, Florida, where a mass shooting occurred at my alma mater, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, leaving 17 people dead, I was instrumental in establishing the Marjory Stoneman Douglas Commission to investigate the failures that day.”
“I look forward to working with my colleagues in a bipartisan manner to provide the American people with the answers they want during this dark moment in our nation’s history and to work on solutions to ensure this never happens again.”
“It is a special and solemn honor to be appointed by House Speaker Mike Johnson and House Majority Leader Hakeem Jeffries to serve on the bipartisan task force investigating the assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump,” Houlahan said in a statement following the announcement.
“The bill establishing this select committee was passed unanimously by the House of Representatives, underscoring the obligation of Pennsylvanians and all Americans to conduct this investigation free from political influence and divisive rhetoric. Through my work on this select committee, I am committed to upholding our values of truth, decency, decency and patriotism,” she added.
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Conspicuously absent from the task force was Rep. Dan Goldman of New York, who last week pushed back against concerns expressed by Republicans about his status on the committee, with some pointing to comments he made last year suggesting Trump needed to be “removed.”
“As someone who has dedicated her life to democracy and the rule of law, Congressman Goldman immediately clarified her erroneous statements from last November and emphasized her strong condemnation of any political violence. The Congressman asked pointed questions at last week’s Congressional hearing, demonstrating that the Secret Service must be held accountable for its unacceptable security failures and is committed to ensuring that such failures never happen again,” Goldman spokesperson Madison Andrus told Fox News Digital.
