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Indiana Republican Rep. Jim Banks was just about to send a letter to Democrats requesting a GOP witness for the January 6 select committee s first hearing when he had the rug pulled out from under him.
By Melanie Zanona, CNN
Indiana Republican Rep. Jim Banks was just about to send a letter to Democrats requesting a GOP witness for the January 6 select committee’s first hearing when he had the rug pulled out from under him.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Wednesday afternoon that she was rejecting both Banks and Rep. Jim Jordan, an Ohio Republican, from serving on the investigation because of their roles in pushing to overturn the presidential election results an unprecedented decision that injected fresh fuel into the partisan brawl.
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Republican Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio suggested July 21 that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had been responsible for the security presence at the US Capitol on January 6
By Tara Subramaniam and Holmes Lybrand, CNN
Republican Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio suggested Wednesday that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had been responsible for the security presence at the US Capitol on January 6, after Pelosi rejected his appointment to serve on the select committee investigating the insurrection.
“Why wasn’t there a proper security presence at the Capitol that day,” Jordan asked at a news conference after House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy pulled all five members he had tapped for the committee in response to Pelosi rejecting two of them. The Ohio Republican added, “Only one person can answer that question. Only one. The Speaker of the United States House of Representatives.”
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YOU’RE FIRED ICYMI, and how could you have, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi vetoed two Republican nominees Rep. Jim Banks of Indiana and Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio from the bipartisan panel charged with investigating the deadly riots that erupted Jan. 6 on Capitol Hill.
“The only way to reverse this is to seat these five,” McCarthy said.
Most in the GOP have remained loyal to Trump despite the violent insurrection of his supporters that sent many of them running for their lives. McCarthy had wouldn’t say for weeks whether Republicans would even participate in the probe, but on Monday, he sent the five names to Pelosi.
Pelosi said in the statement that she had accepted McCarthy’s three other picks Illinois Rep. Rodney Davis, North Dakota Rep. Kelly Armstrong and Texas Rep. Troy Nehls. But McCarthy said that all or none would participate.