Good morning. 
Thursday in Whitewater will be cloudy with thunderstorms and a high of 81. Sunrise is 5:26 AM and sunset 8:16 PM, for 14h 50m 37s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 57.5% of its visible disk illuminated.
Whitewater’s Alcohol Licensing Review Committee meets at 4:45 PM and there will be a joint Common Council Meeting, Plan and Architectural Review Commission, and Community Development Authority meeting at 6 PM.
On this day in 1873, Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive a U.S. patent for blue jeans with copper rivets.
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Craig Gilbert writes House votes to create bipartisan Jan. 6 commission, with all 5 Wisconsin Republican congressmen in opposition:
In the end, 35 Republicans broke with their party leaders and joined all 217 Democrats in supporting the establishment of the panel.
Meanwhile, 175 Republicans opposed the commission, including all five GOP lawmakers from Wisconsin: Bryan Steil, Scott Fitzgerald, Glenn Grothman, Tom Tiffany and Mike Gallagher.
The commission would have subpoena power to call witnesses and produce a report by Dec. 31 of this year. Modeled after the independent panel that investigated the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, it would be charged with scrutinizing what provoked a pro-Trump mob to assault the Capitol and what can be done to prevent another attack.
The 10 members of the commission would be equally divided between Democrats and Republicans under the legislation, which was the product of bipartisan negotiations in the House.
David Smith writes Investigate the Capitol attack? Republicans prefer to back the big lie:
Rarely has the old question “What did the president know and when he did know it?” been more applicable than to Trump on the day that a mob of his supporters stormed the Capitol as his election defeat was being certified.
It was one of the greatest security failures in American history. US Capitol police were overrun. More than three hours passed before the national guard was deployed. A full investigation is surely critical for the public record.
But Republicans’ logic is ruthlessly simple. Now that they have surrendered to Donald Trump, manifest in the ousting of Liz Cheney from House leadership, they would rather recycle false claims of election fraud than talk about 6 January.
It was the spectacular culmination of Trump’s presidency, the moment when all the forces of anger and hatred he stoked for years were unleashed at the cost of five lives. Whereas 9/11 bequeathed memorials carved in granite – never forget – there is a concerted effort under way to airbrush 1/6 from history.
Kurt Bardella, a political commentator who quit the Republican party, tweeted: “Asking Republicans to investigate 1.6 is like asking Al-Qaeda to investigate 9.11. The people who helped plan/promote the attack aren’t going to be partners in the investigation.”
Marc Stein reports For Jrue Holiday, It’s a Good Game When His Wife Says So (‘The pressure is on as the Bucks head to the N.B.A. playoffs, but Holiday has somebody at home who understands competition: his wife, Lauren, who faced high expectations on the U.S. national soccer team’):
After his productive first quarter, Jrue Holiday scored only 1 point in nearly six minutes in the second quarter. Lauren Holiday, who won two Olympic gold medals and the 2015 World Cup as a bustling midfielder with the United States women’s national soccer team, did not regard the sweep of the Nets or her husband’s play as a significant statement. She said she “felt like he took the quarter off.”
“It’s not that I think he did poorly,” Lauren Holiday said. “I just wanted to know what his thinking was — just help me understand. At first he said, ‘I took what the defense dictated,’ and I said, ‘No, I don’t agree.’ Those are the conversations he has to have just because I’m also a competitor.”