据知情人士透露，众议院议长南希·佩洛西(Nancy Pelosi)和众议院民主党人正在考虑邀请伊利诺伊州共和党众议员亚当·金辛格(Adam Kinzinger)加入调查1月6日袭击事件的特别委员会，并要求一名前共和党众议员在与众议院共和党领导人就他们选择的小组成员陷入僵局时担任委员会工作人员。
金辛格，十名众议院共和党人投票弹劾前总统之一唐纳德·特朗普因煽动国会大厦暴动，一直对第45任总统和众议院共和党领袖处理这一事件及其后果的方式直言不讳。
前弗吉尼亚州共和党众议员丹佛·里格曼是一名前情报官员，去年在初选中落败，他一直强烈批评其他共和党人选举据了解讨论情况的消息人士透露，他可能会以顾问身份加入委员会。
消息人士称，众议院议员利兹·切尼(Liz Cheney，R-Wyo)是唯一一位被佩洛西提名进入该委员会的共和党人，他公开和私下鼓励议长和民主党人让两位共和党人参与调查。
金辛格拒绝置评。
美国广播公司新闻赶上里格曼访问切尼后进入佩洛西的办公室。
当被问及是否会以员工顾问的身份加入遴选委员会时，他说，“如果有人问，我会去做。”
包括切尼在内的现任委员会成员周四下午在佩洛西的办公室举行闭门会议——外界猜测佩洛西可能很快会任命金辛格为委员会成员。
从佩洛西的办公室出来，切尼强调关于金辛格的决定取决于佩洛西。
“这取决于演讲者，”切尼告诉美国广播公司新闻。“我认为亚当将是委员会的一个很好的补充……但这是一个特别委员会，由议长做出最终决定。”
切尼还以他的情报背景为由，表示支持让前弗吉尼亚州国会议员里格曼加入该委员会。
“我认为丹佛有一个非常有趣和重要的技能组合，这将是一个巨大的好处，而且，这些决定都将由演讲者做出，”切尼说。
切尼还说，下周特别委员会的第一次听证会将提供一个机会，听取“一些冒着生命危险为我们所有人辩护和战斗的人的意见。”
她说:“我认为，这将是一个机会，让这个国家听到一些当天捍卫国会大厦的非常勇敢的人的声音，直接听到他们的经历，特别是把一些事实摆在桌面上，以反击一些一直在进行的洗白尝试。
在周四的每周新闻发布会上，佩洛西没有确认可能的任命，但声称其他共和党成员希望加入特别委员会。
“这是关于寻求真相，这是我们欠美国人民的，”佩洛西说，并补充说，调查应该是“无党派的”，而且“许多”共和党人表示有兴趣加入该委员会。
周三，众议院少数党领袖、加州共和党人凯文·麦卡锡撤回了他对该委员会的五项共和党建议，此前佩洛西表示，她将阻止印第安纳州众议员吉姆·班克斯(Jim Banks)和俄亥俄州众议员吉姆·乔丹(Jim Jordan)对该特别委员会的评论。吉姆·班克斯和吉姆·乔丹是会议中两位著名的保守派领导人，也是前总统的盟友。
麦卡锡周三表示:“这是一种令人震惊的滥用权力行为。
民主党人也对乔丹的选择持批评态度，因为他与特朗普的会面导致了计划在1月份众议院挑战选举结果的努力。
“人们对我说，‘把它们放在(特别委员会)上，当它们出现问题时，你可以把它们摘下来。’我说，‘我们为什么要把时间浪费在如此可预测的事情上?’”佩洛西周四说。
麦卡锡和共和党人对切尼持批评态度，并警告说，佩洛西可能会开创一个新的先例，使他们有权在民主党人重新控制国会时将他们从委员会中除名。
这位加州共和党人周四表示，在接受佩洛西的任命后，整个共和党会议将决定切尼——以及潜在的金辛格——是否应该被允许在共和党席位的其他委员会任职。
民主党人和切尼计划下周推进他们1月6日与保卫国会大厦的警察举行的听证会，而共和党人承诺进行自己的调查。
国会山的其他共和党人一直批评特朗普和共和党领导人对骚乱的处理，他们不太支持单独行动。
“没有人希望1月6日再次发生。我们到达那里的方式是，我们向美国人民展示事实和证据，因为他们应该得到真相，并让他们做出决定，”R-Washington的众议员杰米·埃雷拉-比特勒(Jamie Herrera-Beutler)说，他投票弹劾特朗普，是众议院35名共和党人之一，他们支持一项法案，建立一个独立的9/11委员会式的小组来调查国会大厦袭击事件。
“但他们不会相信一群试图连任的政客。”
麦卡锡最初支持成立一个9/11委员会式的小组来调查这起袭击，并委托高级副手与民主党人谈判一项协议，但最终反对成立一个独立委员会的提议，该委员会需要两党就传票和调查方向达成一致。
民主党人表示，这种反对，以及参议院共和党人对委员会法案的拒绝，导致他们成立了特别委员会。
Pelosi considering adding former GOP congressman as adviser to Jan. 6 committee
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats are considering inviting Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois to join the select committee to investigate the Jan. 6 attack, and asking a former GOP congressman to serve on committee staff amid a standoff with House GOP leaders over their picks for the panel, according to sources familiar with the deliberations.
Kinzinger, one of ten House Republicans to vote to impeach former PresidentDonald Trumpfor inciting the Capitol insurrection, has remained a vocal critic of the 45th president and House GOP leaders over their handling of the episode and its fallout.
Former Virginia GOP Rep. Denver Riggleman, a former intelligence officer who lost his primary last year, has been a forceful critic of other Republicans overelection-related disinformation and QAnon conspiracy theories, and could join the committee staff in an advisory capacity, according to sources briefed on the discussions.
Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., the only Republican named to the committee by Pelosi, has publicly and privately encouraged the speaker and Democrats to bring both Republicans on to their investigation, the sources said.
Kinzinger declined to comment.
ABC News caught up with Riggleman entering Pelosi’s office after visiting Cheney.
Asked if he would join the select committee in a staff advisory role, he said, "If asked, I’ll do it."
Current committee members, including Cheney, met behind closed doors in Pelosi’s office Thursday afternoon – as speculation swirled that Pelosi may soon appoint Kinzinger to the panel.
Emerging from Pelosi’s office, Cheney emphasized the decision on Kinzinger is up to Pelosi.
"That’ll be up to the speaker,” Cheney told ABC News. "I think that Adam would be an excellent addition to the committee … but it’s a select committee and it’s up to the speaker to make that final decision on that."
Cheney also sounded support to bring Riggleman, the former Virginia congressman, onto the committee’s staff, citing his intelligence background.
"I think that Denver has a really interesting and important skillset that would be a tremendous benefit, and again, these decisions are all ones that are going to be made by the speaker," Cheney said.
Cheney also said that the select committee’s first hearing next week would provide a chance to listen to "some of the people who put their lives on the line to defend and fight for all of us."
“I think that it’s going to be an opportunity for the country to hear from some of the very brave people who defended the Capitol that day, to hear their experiences directly, to put some facts on the table in particular to counter some of the attempts at white wash that have been going on,” she said.
In her weekly news conference Thursday, Pelosi did not confirm the possible appointments, but claimed that other GOP members want to join the select committee.
"It’s about seeking the truth and that’s what we owe the American people," Pelosi said, adding that the investigation should be "nonpartisan" and that "many" Republicans have expressed interest in joining the committee.
On Wednesday, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., pulled his five GOP recommendations for the committee after Pelosi said she would block Reps. Jim Banks of Indiana and Jim Jordan of Ohio - two prominent conservative leaders in the conference and allies of the former president - over comments about the select committee.
"It's an egregious abuse of power," McCarthy said Wednesday.
Democrats were also critical of Jordan's selection, given his meetings with Trump leading up to the planned effort to challenge the election results on the House floor in January.
"People said to me, 'Put them on [the select committee] and take them off when they act up you can take them off.' I said, 'Why should we waste time on something so predictable?'" Pelosi said Thursday.
McCarthy and Republicans were critical of Cheney and warned that Pelosi risked setting a new precedent that would empower them to remove Democrats from committees when they retake control of Congress.
The California Republican said Thursday that the entire GOP conference would determine whether Cheney - and potentially Kinzinger - should be allowed to serve on other committees in Republican seats after accepting an appointment from Pelosi.
Democrats and Cheney plan to move forward next week with their hearing on Jan. 6 with police officers who defended the Capitol, while Republicans have pledged to conduct their own investigation.
Other Republicans on Capitol Hill who have been critical of Trump and GOP leaders' handling of the riot were less supportive of efforts to go it alone.
"Nobody wants Jan. 6 to happen again. The way we get there is we present the facts and the evidence to the American people because they deserve the truth, and let them decide," said Rep. Jamie Herrera-Beutler, R-Washington, who voted to impeach Trump and was one of 35 Republicans in the House who supported a bill to create an independent 9/11 Commission-style panel to investigate the Capitol attack.
"But they're not going to trust a bunch of politicians who are trying to get reelected."
After initially supporting a 9/11 Commission-style panel to investigate the attack and deputizing top lieutenants to negotiate an agreement with Democrats, McCarthy wound up opposing the proposal to set up an independent commission, which would've required bipartisan agreement over subpoenas and the direction of the investigation.
Democrats said that opposition, and the rejection of the commission bill by Senate Republicans, led them to establish the select committee.
