WASHINGTON — A Greater Cleveland congressman will serve on a bipartisan House committee charged with investigating the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump earlier this month.
Rep. Dave Joyce (R-OH-14), a former Geauga County prosecutor, will be one of 13 members on the task force.
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York jointly announced on Monday that 13 lawmakers had been appointed to the task force. It will be comprised of seven Republicans and six Democrats and will issue a final report before Dec. 13. To conduct its investigation, the House approved a resolution giving the panel the authority to issue subpoenas.
“I am honored Speaker Johnson selected me to serve on the bipartisan House task force on the attempted assassination of President Trump. As a prosecutor of over 25 years and former Chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security, I will work diligently to uncover the facts, demand accountability, and ensure these security failures are prevented from happening in the future. President Trump, those injured on July 13th, Corey Comperatore’s family, and the American people deserve these answers,” said Joyce in a statement.
GOP Rep. Mike Kelly, a Pennsylvania congressman who witnessed the assassination attempt against Trump firsthand, will lead the House task force charged with investigating what went wrong and recommending solutions to help ensure such an attack doesn't happen again.
Kelly represents the city of Butler, where the July 13 attack occurred. He attended Trump's campaign rally and sponsored the legislation to create the task force, saying his community was grieving and that “the people of Butler and the people of the United States deserve answers.”
Many of the lawmakers have a background in law enforcement, legal affairs or the military. The panel will assume control and jurisdiction over all pending House committee investigations about the Trump assassination attempt, streamlining the work.
The other Republican members of the task force beside Joyce and Kelly are Rep. Mark Green of Tennessee, the chairman of the Homeland Security Committee; Rep. Laurel Lee of Florida, a former assistant U.S. attorney; Rep. Michael Waltz of Florida, a former member of the U.S. Army Special Forces; Rep. Clay Higgins of Louisiana, a former Army staff sergeant and local law enforcement officer; and Rep. Pat Fallon of Texas, a former U.S. Air Force officer.
Rep. Jason Crow of Colorado will serve as the lead Democratic member of the committee. He is a decorated former Army Ranger having served in both Iraq and Afghanistan.
Other Democratic members are Rep. Lou Correa of California, who sits on the subcommittee that recently visited the site of the assassination attempt; Rep. Madeleine Dean of Pennsylvania, who served in that state's House of Representatives for more than six years before coming to Congress; Rep. Chrissy Houlahan of Pennsylvania, a veteran of the U.S. Air Force; Rep. Glenn Ivey of Maryland, a former assistant U.S. attorney and state’s attorney for Prince George’s County; and Rep. Jared Moskowitz of Florida, the former director of emergency management in that state.
"We have the utmost confidence in this bipartisan group of steady, highly qualified, and capable members of Congress to move quickly to find the facts, ensure accountability, and help make certain such failures never happen again,” Johnson and Jeffries said in their statement.
