BREAKING NEWS: Senate Republicans KILL bill to create a Capitol riot commission despite SIX GOP rebels voting in favor with the Democrats

Senate Republicans tanked the House-passed bill that would create a 9/11-style commission to investigate the January 6 Capitol attack. 

Democrats were unable to override a Republican filibuster placed on the bill during a Friday vote of 54 to 35, with 60 votes needed. 

Republican Sens. Mitt Romney, Susan Collins, Bill Cassidy, Lisa Murkowski, Rob Portman and Ben Sasse voted alongside 48 Democrats.   

'Shame on the Republican Party for trying to sweep the horrors of that day under the rug because they're afraid of Donald Trump,' Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said after the vote. 

Schumer said 'out of fear or fealty to Donald Trump the Republican minority just prevented the American people from getting the full truth about January 6.' 

'The Republican minority just prevented the Senate from even debating the bill - no opportunity for amendments, no opportunity for debate,' Schumer added.

The bill had previously passed the House with the help of 35 Republicans and was the result of a deal between the two top lawmakers - one Democrat and one Republican - on the House's Homeland Security committee.  

'Leader McConnell and Senate Republicans' denial of the truth of the January 6th insurrection brings shame to the Senate,' House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Friday afternoon in a statement. 'Republicans' cowardice in rejecting the truth of that dark day makes our Capitol and our country less safe.'

She also noted that 'Democrats worked across the aisle, agreeing to everything that Republicans asked for.'  

Chaos in the Senate prevented the bill from getting a vote Thursday, when it was expected. 

The upper chamber went into recess at 2:51 a.m. after Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson held up a vote on another bill, a large package aimed at making the U.S. more competitive against China, because he didn't get any amendments in. 

Johnson, a top ally of former President Donald Trump, wanted an amendment attached that would address border security. 

The Senate resumed its session at 9 a.m. Friday.

Schumer negotiated with Republicans including Johnson, and also Sen. Rand Paul and Tommy Tuberville - who had sucked up floor time Friday morning - to move the vote on the technology vote to after Memorial Day recess to ensure the 1/6 vote happened Friday.

'It assure it occurs in the light of day, not at 3 in the morning,' Schumer said on the floor.   

In a brief floor speech he implored Republicans to vote for the bill once more.

'This is not a Democratic or Republican obligation, this is an American obligation. Our democracy, our beautiful, more than two-century old democracy is more at risk because of the lies that have been perpetrated by Donald Trump and his allies than it has in a very long time,' Schumer argued. 'And this commission is a great antidote to that.' 
 
Senate Rules Committee Amy Klobuchar quoted Gladys Sicknick, the mother of late Capitol Hill Police officer Brian Sicknick, in remarks she made in the run-up to the vote. 
'Not having a January 6 Commission to look into exactly what occurred is a slap in the faces of all the officers who did their jobs that day,' Klobuchar said, reading the comment. 

Johnson, who held up the vote for hours, was among the Republican senators who weren't moved to support a commission after plees from Glady Sicknick, and the longtime girlfriend of Brian Sicknick, who attended meetings with GOP lawmakers Thursday.