Attention will be focused on the House this week as the select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol holds its first public hearing on Thursday.
The prime-time hearing will mark the first time the panel, which has largely conducted its investigation behind closed doors, will present its findings to the public. Proceedings are set to begin at 8 p.m.
House Democrats are also looking to move a pair of gun control measures this week following the mass shootings in Buffalo, N.Y., and Uvalde, Texas. The legislation would enact “red flag” laws, raise the minimum age for purchasing semi-automatic weapons and ban civilians from using high-capacity magazines and bump stocks, among other actions.
Tuesday marks the first day the House is back in session since the massacre at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, which killed 19 students and two adults.
Senators are also awaiting news on the bipartisan gun control negotiations, which have been ongoing for almost a week, to discern what measures have a chance of passing Congress and reaching President Biden.
Also on the Senate side, the lower chamber is poised to turn to toxic burn pits legislation, which passed the House in a largely party-line vote in March.
First Jan. 6 public hearing
The Jan. 6 select committee is set to take its investigation public on Thursday in a prime-time hearing that is promising to present the American people with findings from its nearly yearlong probe.
Thursday’s hearing, the first of eight, marks the culmination of the committee’s probe, which conducted more than 1,000 interviews and obtained upwards of 125,000 records.
“The committee will present previously unseen material documenting January 6th, receive witness testimony, preview additional hearings, and provide the American...