Denied standing on the Jan. 6 investigative panel, House Republicans are ratcheting up pressure on the Secret Service and former White House Counsel Pat Cipollone as they seek evidence to challenge the disputed testimony of former junior Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson.
Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.), chairman of the Republican Study Committee, fired off letters over the last week to the presidential protection agency and Cipollone, asking that they provide equal access to GOP investigators as they have given to the House Democrat-led panel as well as any records the service gave the Jan. 6 committee.
"As you know, Speaker [Nancy] Pelosi made the unprecedented decision to block two of Minority Leader McCarthy's appointments to the January 6 Select Committee, so it lacks minority representation," Banks wrote Secret Service Director Brian Murray in a letter dated Thursday. "As a result, Republicans are conducting our own investigation into the security failure at the Capitol, and Republicans on the House Administration Committee have announced a forthcoming investigation into the January 6 Select Committee's conduct."
