Without a speaker, House members cannot be sworn in, business cannot be conducted, and pay for thousands of staffers is in jeopardy.

For people of color, including many in Congress, the attack was an eerily familiar display of white supremacist violence, this time at the very seat of American democracy.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi chose seven Democratic lawmakers to make the case that Trump abused the power of his office and obstructed Congress’s investigative powers.