Reps. Elaine Luria (D-Va.) and Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) are set to lead the questioning in Thursday's primetime Jan. 6 hearing, a responsibility the lawmakers attribute in part to their military backgrounds.
Driving the news: The veterans have each tied their military service oaths to their motivation in pressing the inquiry and Luria accused former President Trump last weekend of a “dereliction of duty" for failing to act during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
- "Mr. Kinzinger and I, who are both veterans leading this committee, I think, as veterans of the military, understand what action looks like in a time of crisis," Luria told CNN's "State of the Union."
- "I look at it as a dereliction of duty. He didn’t act. He had a duty to act," Luria said.
Who is Elaine Luria?
- The former Navy commander was first elected in in 2018 to represent Virginia’s 2nd Congressional District.
- She serves on the House Armed Services Committee and Commitee on Veterans Affairs and has made her work on the Jan. 6 panel a part of her re-election push.
Thursday's hearing comes as the Democrat is facing off against a fellow Navy veteran in what is expected to be one of the most competitive races in the country for Republicans....
- "Getting this right, getting the facts out there and making some change in the future so that this doesn’t happen again, it’s so much bigger than whether you’re reelected or not," Luria told the Washington Post.
- "I don’t want to make my