After the GOP won a House of Representatives majority, could the work of its January 6 committee be shifted over to the Senate?
As the proposal to shift an investigation from the House to the Senate for now remains a hypothetical,Fact Check consulted with a number of legal scholars and political experts to assess the legal grounds for such a development.Professor Richard Bensel, an expert in the U.S. Congress who teaches at Cornell University, said the House January 6 committee cannot simply be transferred to the Senate.
However, Bensel noted the House committee could"share all of its documents, transcripts, and whatever else it wished" with a new Senate committee.Newsweek "But some of its work—beyond interim or final reports—could plausibly be shared with the Senate. It's not clear to me whether the Committee itself would have authority to share material beyond reports on its own, since that doesn't show up in the authorizing resolution. But the House could decide to do so."
The professor said:"The House committee can certainly hand all of its files and plans over to the Senate, and the Senate can create its own select committee and proceed with the investigation. The Senate committee can also pick up the departing House staff who want to continue with the investigation.
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