The committee investigating the events of Jan. 6, 2021, said Monday it would be referring four Republican members of Congress to the House Ethics Committee for refusing to comply with subpoenas.
Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., made the announcement near the conclusion of the House select committee’s final meeting, in which referrals for criminal charges were made against former President Donald Trump for his role in inciting the violence of Jan. 6 and attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. The members being referred to the committee include House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy and Reps. Andy Biggs of Arizona, Jim Jordan of Ohio and Scott Perry of Pennsylvania, all Republicans.
In 150 pages of “introductory material” released at the conclusion of the meeting, the committee laid out its reasoning for why it wanted to speak with each legislator and why their lack of participation hurt the investigation. The committee said that McCarthy had multiple conversations with Trump and then-Vice President Mike Pence on and about Jan. 6, including one in which Trump referred to his supporters storming the Capitol by saying, “Well, Kevin, I guess these people are more upset about the election than you are.”
The committee stated that Jordan participated in a number of postelection strategy meetings with White House officials and Trump's personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, who was a point person in pushing false allegations about the election being stolen....
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