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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.”
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., pictured on July 1, has rejected two of the five members nominated by Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy to serve on the Jan. 6 select committee to investigate the U.S. Capitol riot.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has vetoed two Republican nominees to the panel set to investigate the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
Citing statements and actions made by the pair Reps. Jim Banks of Indiana and Jim Jordan of Ohio Pelosi said she was rejecting their nominations with respect for the integrity of the investigation. The unprecedented nature of January 6th demands this unprecedented decision, Pelosi said.
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Wyoming Republican Rep. Liz Cheney once again broke from her party Wednesday, supporting Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s decision to veto two GOP nominees to sit on the Jan. 6 House panel.
The panel was intended to include a bipartisan group of lawmakers, though with more Democrats than Republicans, to investigate and report on what happened during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. I agree with what the Speaker has done, Cheney told reporters from in front of the Capitol.
Pelosi blocked GOP Reps. Jim Jordan of Ohio and Jim Banks of Indiana from serving on the investigatory panel after they were nominated by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy earlier this week.