Dems wanted to call on Biden to form Jan. 6 commission but were told it wouldn't happen

The group, made up of a number of House Democrats with national security backgrounds, had prepared an op-ed calling on Biden to form a presidential commission investigating the events that led to the riots, in the tradition of former President Ronald Reagan’s Tower Commission and Franklin Roosevelt’s presidential commission on the attack on Pearl Harbor. The op-ed was drafted following the Senate’s failure to pass legislation establishing a bipartisan commission to investigate the insurrection. But the move was discouraged by