House Republican lawmakers aligned with former President Donald Trump are planning to host counterprogramming events in order to set the record “straight” ahead of the Jan. 6 hearings starting this week, according to a top GOP member.
Republican leadership in the House will address the media at 10:45 a.m., an event that will include Reps. Jim Banks (R-IN) and Jim Jordan (R-OH), both of whom were rejected by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) from sitting on the select committee investigating the Capitol riot. Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA), Republican Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik of New York, and Republican Conference Secretary Richard Hudson of North Carolina are also scheduled to appear.
The Capitol Hill stakeout will take place after the House Republican conference’s weekly meeting. The Jan. 6 committee’s summer hearings, set to begin Thursday, will be just one topic lawmakers discuss, a spokesperson for the House Republican Conference told the Washington Examiner. A representative for Scalise even went so far as to say the stakeout is “not a prebuttal” to the hearings.
Still, Stefanik, the third-ranking Republican in the House, is promising a wider-scale campaign to pick apart the efforts of the Jan. 6 panel.
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