Ignoring pleas, GOP stalls Jan. 6 commission vote overnight
The mother of fallen US Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick met with more than a dozen Republican senators yesterday, urging them to vote to establish a commission to investigate the Jan. 6 insurrection. But even after those meetings, which two sources familiar said were cordial, most of the senators told her they wouldn’t be changing their minds, likely leaving the commission short of the 10 Republican votes needed to pass.
Most GOP senators made it clear to Gladys Sicknick, her son’s girlfriend Sandra Garza, Capitol Hill Police Officer Harry Dunn and DC Metropolitan Police Officer Michael Fanone that they don’t want a commission to investigate what happened that day, underscoring the deeply partisan divide that has emerged over the insurrection and once again illuminating the GOP’s fealty to former President Donald Trump.
Earlier in the day, Sicknick had told reporters that she hoped her meetings would sway Republicans.
“I hope so. I hope so. Brian had a work ethic second to none. He was just there for our country,” she said. “He just was doing his job and he got caught up in it. And it’s very sad.”
“This is why I’m here today,” she added. “Usually I’m staying in the background, and I just couldn’t stay quiet anymore.”
But the meetings, according to a source familiar with them, were “very hard” for Sicknick, who — along with Garza — wore a necklace with some of her son’s ashes in them.
