Rep. Morgan Griffith, the veteran lawmaker from Virginia’s 9th Congressional District, has been appointed to a new select congressional committee that’s re-investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection.

Griffith, R-Salem, was appointed Sept. 11 by Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson. The new committee also includes some of the loudest mouths in Congress, from both sides of the aisle.

This is the third bipartisan committee to investigate Jan. 6. Early this year, President Donald Trump urged Congress to renew the investigation.

The first, appointed in 2021 by Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, probed the origins of Trump supporters’ unprecedented attack on the U.S. Capitol.

That occurred as Congress tried to certify Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory. Griffith was one of the lawma

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