(C) Florida Phoenix This story was originally published by Florida Phoenix and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . FL Congresswoman on House Homeland Security panel: I ‘haven’t watched any’ Jan. 6 hearings [1] ['Laura Cassels', 'More From Author', '- July'] Date: 2022-07-22 Twelve Florida Republican members of Congress voted against certifying that Democrat Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election, hours after supporters of former president Donald Trump stormed the nation’s Capitol in a failed bid to block the transfer of power. By early Friday, only two of those had commented on Thursday night’s prime-time public hearing of the U.S. House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the nation’s Capitol. That hearing is expected to be the last until September. One of the 12, Rep. Kat Cammack, a member of the House Homeland Security Committee, said late Thursday she has not watched any of the hearings — eight since June and one last July titled “The Law Enforcement Experience on January 6th.” The bipartisan committee is composed of seven Democrats and two Republicans. “I haven’t watched any yet. This is a total sham,” Cammack told anchors of the Newsmax program John Bachman Now. “We know that this is not a committee that is based in fact or truth.” Elected in 2020 and endorsed by Trump for her next race, Cammack said the work of the bipartisan investigation is a distraction concocted by Democrats including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. She did not dispute or comment at all on the damning testimony from Republicans who worked in the Trump White House, some of whom testified they tried to get Trump to call off the riot and some who resigned that day in protest. “[Pelosi] sees this as a way to saturate the conversation with January 6 nonsense, but the American people are smart. They know that this is a sham and nothing more than a political witch hunt at the end of the day,” Cammack said. Rep. Byron Donalds, a member of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, in a tweet late Thursday called the investigation a “clown show.” Donalds, too, did not remark on the testimony, which has largely come from fellow Republicans then close to Trump. “Zero cross-examination. Cherry-picked evidence. Failure to corroborate ‘evidence.’ This is a Soviet-style clown show intended to distract the American people from their failed agenda and attempt to hurt the popularity of former President Trump. It’s NOT working,” Donalds posted on @ByronDonalds. Donalds was elected in 2016 and is endorsed by Trump for his next race. Other U.S. House Republicans who voted to overturn election results are Reps. Mario Diaz-Balart, Neal Dunn, Scott Franklin, Matt Gaetz, Carlos Gimenez, Brian Mast, Bill Posey, John Rutherford, Greg Steube and Daniel Webster. Those members of Congress did not mention the Jan. 6 hearings in recent Twitter posts. In the U.S. Senate, Florida’s Rick Scott voted not to certify, according to a list from The New York Times. In total, 147 Republicans “voted to sustain one or both objections,” according to the Times. Florida Democrats and some Republican House members, including Reps. Mike Waltz and Vern Buchanan, voted yes to certify the election results already certified in each state, giving Biden victories in the electoral college and in the popular vote. Scores of court cases challenging the legality of the vote on Trump’s behalf failed to produce evidence of wrongdoing. [END] --- [1] Url: https://floridaphoenix.com/2022/07/22/fl-congresswoman-on-house-homeland-security-panel-i-havent-watched-any-jan-6-hearings/ Published and (C) by Florida Phoenix Content appears here under this condition or license: Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/floridaphoenix/