House Appropriations Committee/Screenshot by NPR hide caption toggle caption House Appropriations Committee/Screenshot by NPR Acting U.S. Capitol Police Chief Yogananda Pittman testified on the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection. House Appropriations Committee/Screenshot by NPR Acting U.S. Capitol Police Chief Yogananda Pittman, testifying remotely through a video link, told a House committee that her agency head had requested military backup about a half-dozen times in the first hour after the Capitol complex was breached on Jan. 6, the day of the insurrection. Pittman based her assessment on phone records her agency obtained for then-Chief Steven Sund showing he reached out to the Capitol's top security officials starting shortly before 1 p.m. in the first of six calls requesting the National Guard to respond.