Glayds Sicknic, mother of Brian Sicknic, a fallen officer of the US Capitol Police said on Thursday that US lawmakers are “supposed to uphold the constitution” as the Senate is likely to go into a vote later in the day to decide the fate of the January 6 commission.

She later added that the lawmakers are “good at what they do” and that she hopes they approve the commission. “We just have to hope”, she said.

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“They sit and listen very well, but bottom line is, we don’t know”, reported CNN quoting Glayds Sicknic.

According to reports from CNN, the commission is designed in such a way that it will seek a bipartisan consensus on the investigations of the January 6 incident. The members of the commission, if given a green signal by the Senate, will have equal representation from both parties. The chairperson of the commission will be picked by the Democratic party while the choice of the second in command will be given to the members of the Republican party.

However, the debate continues to linger around the objectives of the commission. While Senate minority leader and top lawmaker of the Republican party Mitch McConnell says that attempt is “purely a political exercise”. 

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His Democratic counterpart Chuck Schumer, on the other hand, says Republican lawmakers are only speaking against the commission not for their disagreements with its structure but because of politics.

The bill, which introduces the January 6 commission, requires 60 votes to pass in case the Republican Senators decide to filibuster the vote. So far, only three GOP Senators have announced their support for the bill, including Senators Mitt Romney, Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins.