Loudermilk told CNN that while the specifics of the new committee are still being worked out, one possibility is to give Johnson more control over the panel\u2019s composition (referred to as a \u201cselect committee\u201d) and operations.<\/p>\n
The creation of a new committee to draw attention to Loudermilk\u2019s work\u2014which included a report that recommended the FBI charge former GOP Rep. Liz Cheney\u2014keeps the Republican campaign focused on preventing President Donald Trump from being held accountable for the January 6 violence.<\/p>\n
Loudermilk described the previous January 6 select committee, which Adam Schiff and Liz Cheney assisted in leading, as \u201cso singularly focused that basically Trump created this entire problem.\u201d \u201cWhen, in fact, there were numerous failures at various levels.\u201d<\/p>\n
Johnson has declared in public that the new investigation into January 6 will be \u201cfully funded.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cContinuing its investigation into the previous January 6 select committee \u2013 which featured Cheney as a vice chair and had another Republican member \u2013 and broader security response to the Capitol attack is not the only way Republicans plan to use their new majority to carry over their previous investigations that remain politically charged,\u201d according to CNN.<\/p>\n
According to two people familiar with the situation, Republicans reissued subpoenas on Monday regarding two Justice Department tax investigators who worked on the Hunter Biden case and special counsel Robert Hur\u2019s investigation into President Joe Biden\u2019s handling of classified documents, CNN reported. The outlet also stated that those subpoenas would revive previous Congress\u2019s efforts that have been contested in court and not settled for months.<\/p>\n
This week, Sen. Adam Schiff, a Democrat from California, discussed the Jan. 6 committee and rumors that President Joe Biden was thinking about pardoning him, Cheney, and other individuals.<\/p>\n
Schiff stated on Monday that he does not want Biden to establish a \u201cprecedent\u201d by pardoning him and others in advance for their work on the House Jan. 6 committee.<\/p>\n
Setting such a precedent would be incorrect. In an interview with CNN\u2019s Dana Bash, Schiff stated, \u201cI don\u2019t want to see each president go out the door now issuing a broad category of pardons.\u201d<\/p>\n
Schiff said, \u201cWell, and here I\u2019m just speaking for myself, those of us that were on the Jan. 6 committee who [President-elect Trump] has put in the crosshairs, we\u2019re all enormously proud of the work that we did,\u201d in response to a question about the possibility of a more focused pardon.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe maintain our position. We believe that the Speech and Debate Clause protects us. He continued, \u201cSo, I\u2014my own feeling is, let\u2019s just avoid this kind of broad precedent.\u201d<\/p>\n
Schiff said of Biden, \u201cI\u2019m urging that he not go down that road,\u201d without going so far as to say he would \u201cno\u201d to such a pardon if it were offered.<\/p>\n
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