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RNC votes to condemn Cheney, Kinzinger for serving on House committee investigating Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol by pro-Trump mob

Party leaders meeting in Salt Lake City move a censure resolution against the congresswoman from Wyoming and prepare to fund her primary opponent

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Updated February 4, 2022 at 3:04 p.m. EST|Published February 3, 2022 at 9:34 p.m. EST
Reps. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) and Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) in a meeting of the House select committee tasked with investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol in October. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)

SALT LAKE CITY — In an extraordinary rebuke, the Republican National Committee on Friday voted to condemn Reps. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) and Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), the two Republican members of a House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by a pro-Trump mob.

The censure resolution passed overwhelmingly on a voice vote without debate or discussion, with the whole process taking about one minute. The party said the behavior of Cheney and Kinzinger “has been destructive to the institution of the U.S. House of Representatives, the Republican Party and our republic.”