Sen. Amy Klobuchar will play a leading role in a congressional investigation into what went wrong when a mob was able to attack the nation’s Capitol.
U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar will play a leading role in a congressional investigation into what went wrong when a mob was able to attack the nation’s Capitol this week and what Congress needs to do to beef up security in and around the building. When Democrats take control of the Senate later this month, Klobuchar will become chair of the Rules Committee, where she currently is the ranking member. In an interview Friday, the Minnesota Democrat said Senate leaders announced earlier in the day that the Rules and Homeland Security committees will jointly investigate how hundreds of President Donald Trump’s supporters overwhelmed Capitol Police and went on an hours-long rampage in the building. “After what we’ve just been through as a country, it makes working in Congress and showing leadership on the committee that I’m going to be chairing” feel much more important, she said. Klobuchar has already assumed some of those leadership duties. As the ranking member of the rules panel, she led Democrats in the debate before President-elect Joe Biden was certified as winner of the Electoral College election.
