House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy is demanding that the Select Committee on Jan. 6 preserve documents related to its investigation into the Capitol riot.
House Minority Leader
, R-Calif., is demanding that Democrats in charge of the Jan. 6 committee preserve all records and transcripts from its investigation into the riot at the U.S. Capitol., McCarthy pointedly wrote that the Jan. 6 investigation's work will end once Republicans take over the House of Representatives in January and reminded the chairman that all documents related to the investigation must be preserved"for transparency.
"You have spent a year and a half and millions of taxpayers' dollars conducting this investigation. It is imperative that all information be preserved not just for institutional prerogatives but for transparency to the American people," McCarthy wrote."The official Congressional Records do not belong to you or any member, but to the American people, and they are owed all the information you gathered – not merely the information that comports with your political agenda.
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