The GOP’s Jan. 6 committee dilemma: Disband it, or turn it on Dems?

“I’m probably in the camp of: Just let it go away. I don’t want to waste our time dealing with it anymore,” said Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas).

As a practical matter, the Jan. 6 committee will dissolve at the end of the current Congress, and any effort to revive it would need to be incorporated into the next Congress’ package of rules — or by a subsequent resolution supported by House leaders. And some House GOP leaders and members expect they’ll allow the committee to simply fade away, or that they’ll use their own unilateral select committee powers to pursue a less overtly pro-Trump probe than the former president’s congressional allies might want.

“There won’t be one,” said Georgia Rep. Drew Ferguson, the GOP’s chief deputy whip, when asked what would happen to the select panel under a Republican majority. “I don’t think it’d be called the Jan. 6 committee,” quipped Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.), a member of the House Freedom Caucus.

Regardless of whether the committee is revived in the GOP’s image, some Republicans are signaling they would use their investigative powers in the majority to attempt to pin specific blame for the siege of Congress on Speaker Nancy Pelosi.