House leadership on Monday named the 13 members of the bipartisan congressional task force that would seek to examine the root causes of the failures that allowed a shooter to gain access to former President Donald Trump and narrowly miss him in an assassination attempt earlier this month.
Pennsylvania Republican Rep. Mike Kelly, who has said he was 50 feet away from Trump when the July 13 shooting started, will serve as chair of the group that comprises seven Republicans and six Democrats.
“In the aftermath of the assassination attempt, I heard calls from both sides of the aisle to lower the political temperature, to tamp down the rhetoric. I echo these calls,” Kelly wrote Friday in a Newsweek op-ed. “My hope is that, by establishing the task force, we will shine a light on the facts that so many Americans have been desperately seeking.”
