On February 15, 2021, Nancy Pelosi announced, in a letter to Democrats in the House of Representatives, she planned to create a &lt;a href="9/11%20Commission"&gt;"9/11-type commission"&lt;/a&gt; to investigate the January 6 attack on the US Capitol. It would have contained no members of Congress and been an "outside commission" In the letter, she said that, "... [their] next step will be to establish an outside, independent 9/11-type commission to investigate and report on the facts and causes relating to the January 6, 2021, domestic terrorist attack upon the United States Capitol Complex … and relating to the interference with the peaceful transfer of power, including facts and causes relating to the preparedness and response of the United States Capitol Police and other Federal, State, and local law enforcement in the National Capitol Region."