IV 
117TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 503 
Establishing the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack 
on the United States Capitol. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 28, 2021 
Ms. PELOSI submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 
Committee on Rules 
RESOLUTION 
Establishing the Select Committee to Investigate the January 
6th Attack on the United States Capitol. 
Whereas January 6, 2021, was one of the darkest days of our 
democracy, during which insurrectionists attempted to 
impede Congress’s Constitutional mandate to validate the 
presidential election and launched an assault on the 
United States Capitol Complex that resulted in multiple 
deaths, physical harm to over 140 members of law en-
forcement, and terror and trauma among staff, institu-
tional employees, press, and Members; 
Whereas, on January 27, 2021, the Department of Homeland 
Security issued a National Terrorism Advisory System 
Bulletin that due to the ‘‘heightened threat environment 
across the United States,’’ in which ‘‘[S]ome ideologi-
cally-motivated violent extremists with objections to the 
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exercise of governmental authority and the presidential 
transition, as well as other perceived grievances fueled by 
false narratives, could continue to mobilize to incite or 
commit violence.’’ The Bulletin also stated that— 
(1) ‘‘DHS is concerned these same drivers to vio-
lence will remain through early 2021 and some DVEs 
[domestic violent extremists] may be emboldened by the 
January 6, 2021 breach of the U.S. Capitol Building in 
Washington, D.C. to target elected officials and govern-
ment facilities.’’; and 
(2) ‘‘Threats of violence against critical infrastruc-
ture, including the electric, telecommunications and 
healthcare sectors, increased in 2020 with violent extrem-
ists citing misinformation and conspiracy theories about 
COVID–19 for their actions’’; 
Whereas, on September 24, 2020, Director of the Federal 
Bureau of Investigation Christopher Wray testified before 
the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of 
Representatives that— 
(1) ‘‘[T]he underlying drivers for domestic violent 
extremism – such as perceptions of government or law 
enforcement overreach, sociopolitical conditions, racism, 
anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, misogyny, and reactions to 
legislative actions – remain constant.’’; 
(2) ‘‘[W]ithin the domestic terrorism bucket cat-
egory as a whole, racially-motivated violent extremism is, 
I think, the biggest bucket within the larger group. And 
within the racially-motivated violent extremists bucket, 
people subscribing to some kind of white supremacist- 
type ideology is certainly the biggest chunk of that.’’; and 
(3) ‘‘More deaths were caused by DVEs than inter-
national terrorists in recent years. In fact, 2019 was the 
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deadliest year for domestic extremist violence since the 
Oklahoma City bombing in 1995’’; 
Whereas, on April 15, 2021, Michael Bolton, the Inspector 
General for the United States Capitol Police, testified to 
the Committee on House Administration of the House of 
Representatives that— 
(1) ‘‘The Department lacked adequate guidance for 
operational planning. USCP did not have policy and pro-
cedures in place that communicated which personnel were 
responsible for operational planning, what type of oper-
ational planning documents its personnel should prepare, 
nor when its personnel should prepare operational plan-
ning documents.’’; and 
(2) ‘‘USCP failed to disseminate relevant informa-
tion obtained from outside sources, lacked consensus on 
interpretation of threat analyses, and disseminated con-
flicting intelligence information regarding planned events 
for January 6, 2021.’’; and 
Whereas the security leadership of the Congress under-pre-
pared for the events of January 6th, with United States 
Capitol Police Inspector General Michael Bolton testi-
fying again on June 15, 2021, that— 
(1) ‘‘USCP did not have adequate policies and pro-
cedures for FRU (First Responder Unit) defining its 
overall operations. Additionally, FRU lacked resources 
and training for properly completing its mission.’’; 
(2) ‘‘The Department did not have adequate policies 
and procedures for securing ballistic helmets and vests 
strategically stored around the Capitol Complex.’’; and 
(3) ‘‘FRU did not have the proper resources to com-
plete its mission.’’: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, 
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SECTION 1. ESTABLISHMENT. 
There is hereby established the Select Committee to 
Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States 
Capitol (hereinafter referred to as the ‘‘Select Com-
mittee’’). 
SEC. 2. COMPOSITION. 
(a) APPOINTMENT OF MEMBERS.—The Speaker shall 
appoint 13 Members to the Select Committee, 5 of whom 
shall be appointed after consultation with the minority 
leader. 
(b) DESIGNATION
OF CHAIR.—The Speaker shall 
designate one Member to serve as chair of the Select Com-
mittee. 
(c) VACANCIES.—Any vacancy in the Select Com-
mittee shall be filled in the same manner as the original 
appointment. 
SEC. 3. PURPOSES. 
Consistent with the functions described in section 4, 
the purposes of the Select Committee are the following: 
(1) To investigate and report upon the facts, 
circumstances, and causes relating to the January 6, 
2021, domestic terrorist attack upon the United 
States Capitol Complex (hereafter referred to as the 
‘‘domestic terrorist attack on the Capitol’’) and re-
lating to the interference with the peaceful transfer 
of power, including facts and causes relating to the 
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preparedness and response of the United States 
Capitol Police and other Federal, State, and local 
law enforcement agencies in the National Capital 
Region and other instrumentalities of government, 
as well as the influencing factors that fomented such 
an attack on American representative democracy 
while engaged in a constitutional process. 
(2) To examine and evaluate evidence developed 
by relevant Federal, State, and local governmental 
agencies regarding the facts and circumstances sur-
rounding the domestic terrorist attack on the Capitol 
and targeted violence and domestic terrorism rel-
evant to such terrorist attack. 
(3) To build upon the investigations of other 
entities and avoid unnecessary duplication of efforts 
by reviewing the investigations, findings, conclu-
sions, and recommendations of other executive 
branch, congressional, or independent bipartisan or 
nonpartisan commission investigations into the do-
mestic terrorist attack on the Capitol, including in-
vestigations into influencing factors related to such 
attack. 
SEC. 4. FUNCTIONS. 
(a) FUNCTIONS.—The functions of the Select Com-
mittee are to— 
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(1) investigate the facts, circumstances, and 
causes relating to the domestic terrorist attack on 
the Capitol, including facts and circumstances relat-
ing to— 
(A) activities of intelligence agencies, law 
enforcement agencies, and the Armed Forces, 
including with respect to intelligence collection, 
analysis, and dissemination and information 
sharing among the branches and other instru-
mentalities of government; 
(B) influencing factors that contributed to 
the domestic terrorist attack on the Capitol and 
how technology, including online platforms, fi-
nancing, and malign foreign influence oper-
ations and campaigns may have factored into 
the motivation, organization, and execution of 
the domestic terrorist attack on the Capitol; 
and 
(C) other entities of the public and private 
sector as determined relevant by the Select 
Committee for such investigation; 
(2) identify, review, and evaluate the causes of 
and the lessons learned from the domestic terrorist 
attack on the Capitol regarding— 
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(1) INTERIM REPORTS.—In addition to the final 
report addressing the matters in subsection (a) and 
section 3, the Select Committee may report to the 
House or any committee of the House from time to 
time the results of its investigations, together with 
such detailed findings and legislative recommenda-
tions as it may deem advisable. 
(2) TREATMENT OF CLASSIFIED OR LAW EN-
FORCEMENT-SENSITIVE MATTER.—Any report issued 
by the Select Committee shall be issued in unclassi-
fied form but may include a classified annex, a law 
enforcement-sensitive annex, or both. 
(c) CORRECTIVE MEASURES DESCRIBED.—The cor-
rective measures described in this subsection may include 
changes in law, policy, procedures, rules, or regulations 
that could be taken— 
(1) to prevent future acts of violence, domestic 
terrorism, and domestic violent extremism, including 
acts targeted at American democratic institutions; 
(2) to improve the security posture of the 
United States Capitol Complex while preserving ac-
cessibility of the Capitol Complex for all Americans; 
and 
(3) to strengthen the security and resilience of 
the United States and American democratic institu-
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tions against violence, domestic terrorism, and do-
mestic violent extremism. 
(d) NO MARKUP OF LEGISLATION PERMITTED.—The 
Select Committee may not hold a markup of legislation. 
SEC. 5. PROCEDURE. 
(a) ACCESS TO INFORMATION FROM INTELLIGENCE 
COMMUNITY.—Notwithstanding clause 3(m) of rule X of 
the Rules of the House of Representatives, the Select 
Committee is authorized to study the sources and methods 
of entities described in clause 11(b)(1)(A) of rule X inso-
far as such study is related to the matters described in 
sections 3 and 4. 
(b) TREATMENT
OF CLASSIFIED INFORMATION.— 
Clause 11(b)(4), clause 11(e), and the first sentence of 
clause 11(f) of rule X of the Rules of the House of Rep-
resentatives shall apply to the Select Committee. 
(c) APPLICABILITY OF RULES GOVERNING PROCE-
DURES OF COMMITTEES.—Rule XI of the Rules of the 
House of Representatives shall apply to the Select Com-
mittee except as follows: 
(1) Clause 2(a) of rule XI shall not apply to the 
Select Committee. 
(2) Clause 2(g)(2)(D) of rule XI shall apply to 
the Select Committee in the same manner as it ap-
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plies to the Permanent Select Committee on Intel-
ligence. 
(3) Pursuant to clause 2(h) of rule XI, two 
Members of the Select Committee shall constitute a 
quorum for taking testimony or receiving evidence 
and one-third of the Members of the Select Com-
mittee shall constitute a quorum for taking any ac-
tion other than one for which the presence of a ma-
jority of the Select Committee is required. 
(4) The chair of the Select Committee may au-
thorize and issue subpoenas pursuant to clause 2(m) 
of rule XI in the investigation and study conducted 
pursuant to sections 3 and 4 of this resolution, in-
cluding for the purpose of taking depositions. 
(5) The chair of the Select Committee is au-
thorized to compel by subpoena the furnishing of in-
formation by interrogatory. 
(6)(A) The chair of the Select Committee, upon 
consultation with the ranking minority member, may 
order the taking of depositions, including pursuant 
to subpoena, by a Member or counsel of the Select 
Committee, in the same manner as a standing com-
mittee pursuant to section 3(b)(1) of House Resolu-
tion 8, One Hundred Seventeenth Congress. 
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(B) Depositions taken under the authority pre-
scribed in this paragraph shall be governed by the 
procedures submitted by the chair of the Committee 
on Rules for printing in the Congressional Record on 
January 4, 2021. 
(7) Subpoenas authorized pursuant to this reso-
lution may be signed by the chair of the Select Com-
mittee or a designee. 
(8) The chair of the Select Committee may, 
after consultation with the ranking minority mem-
ber, recognize— 
(A) Members of the Select Committee to 
question a witness for periods longer than five 
minutes 
as 
though 
pursuant 
to 
clause 
2(j)(2)(B) of rule XI; and 
(B) staff of the Select Committee to ques-
tion a witness as though pursuant to clause 
2(j)(2)(C) of rule XI. 
(9) The chair of the Select Committee may 
postpone further proceedings when a record vote is 
ordered on questions referenced in clause 2(h)(4) of 
rule XI, and may resume proceedings on such post-
poned questions at any time after reasonable notice. 
Notwithstanding any intervening order for the pre-
vious question, an underlying proposition shall re-
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main subject to further debate or amendment to the 
same extent as when the question was postponed. 
(10) The provisions of paragraphs (f)(1) 
through (f)(12) of clause 4 of rule XI shall apply to 
the Select Committee. 
SEC. 6. RECORDS; STAFF; TRAVEL; FUNDING. 
(a) SHARING RECORDS OF COMMITTEES.—Any com-
mittee of the House of Representatives having custody of 
records in any form relating to the matters described in 
sections 3 and 4 shall provide copies of such records to 
the Select Committee not later than 14 days of the adop-
tion of this resolution or receipt of such records. Such 
records shall become the records of the Select Committee. 
(b) STAFF.—The appointment and the compensation 
of staff for the Select Committee shall be subject to regu-
lations issued by the Committee on House Administration. 
(c) DETAIL OF STAFF OF OTHER OFFICES.—Staff 
of employing entities of the House or a joint committee 
may be detailed to the Select Committee to carry out this 
resolution and shall be deemed to be staff of the Select 
Committee. 
(d) USE
OF CONSULTANTS PERMITTED.—Section 
202(i) of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 (2 
U.S.C. 4301(i)) shall apply with respect to the Select 
Committee in the same manner as such section applies 
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with respect to a standing committee of the House of Rep-
resentatives. 
(e) TRAVEL.—Clauses 8(a), (b), and (c) of rule X of 
the Rules of the House of Representatives shall apply to 
the Select Committee. 
(f) FUNDING; PAYMENTS.—There shall be paid out 
of the applicable accounts of the House of Representatives 
such sums as may be necessary for the expenses of the 
Select Committee. Such payments shall be made on vouch-
ers signed by the chair of the Select Committee and ap-
proved in the manner directed by the Committee on House 
Administration. Amounts made available under this sub-
section shall be expended in accordance with regulations 
prescribed by the Committee on House Administration. 
SEC. 7. TERMINATION AND DISPOSITION OF RECORDS. 
(a) TERMINATION.—The Select Committee shall ter-
minate 30 days after filing the final report under section 
4. 
(b) DISPOSITION OF RECORDS.—Upon termination 
of the Select Committee— 
(1) the records of the Select Committee shall 
become the records of such committee or committees 
designated by the Speaker; and 
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