The January 6 committee proposed on December 19 that four Republican congressmen be referred to the House Ethics Committee for failing to honor the subpoenas.
These are the representatives Kevin McCarthy (R-California), Rep. Jim Giordano (R-Ohio), Rep Scott Perry (R-Penn.) and rep Andy Bigg (R-Ariz.).
In the same session, the committee recommended criminal charges against the former president. Donald Trump related to break-in inside Capitol on January 6, 2021.
The House Ethics Committee subpoenaed Reps. McCarthy, Jordan, Perry and Biggs to testify, but none did.
Biggs responded on Twitter, saying the committee wants testimony from members of Congress “so they can edit and misinterpret our statements to push their false narratives, as they have done with so many witnesses.”
Jay Ostrich, a spokesman for Perry, said in an email to The Epoch Times that these are “more games of a smug and soon-dead court kangaroo, desperate for vengeance and struggling to shake off the burden of own irrelevance. “
“Congressman Perry stands by his pledge to help his constituents, who again, unlike many members of this dishonest entity, have overwhelmingly sent him back to Washington to fix what President Biden and his supporters have destroyed,” Ostrich continued.
The Epoch Times has reached out to Jordan and McCarthy for comment, but has not received a response as of press time.
Russell Dye, spokesman for Rep. Jim Jordan, told the Daily Caller that the allegations were “another partisan and political ploy by a Select Committee who knowingly tampered with evidence, which for the first time in the history of the House of Representatives of the United States blocked minority representation on a Committee and did not respond to Mr. Jordan’s many letters and concerns about the politicization and legitimacy of the Committee’s work.
Raskin told reporters the reason the recommended charges named only four members of Congress was because there was ample evidence they had been involved in crimes related to Jan. 6, 2021.
The January 6 committee did not invoke any charges of seditious conspiracy, Raskin told media. This accusation has mainly been applied against the Keepers of the oath and the Proud boys.
The January 6 Committee it has been criticized since its inception for its factionalism and animosity against Trump. The committee is led by Democrats. Only two of its nine members are Republicans, and both are strong critics of Trump who voted to impeach the former president in January 2021 and were chosen by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif).
Correction: An earlier version of this article incorrectly described the nature of the committee’s recommendations regarding Congressional Republicans. The Epoch Times regrets the error.
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