Home Minority Chief Kevin McCarthy referred to GOP Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger as “Pelosi Republicans” Monday after Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi tapped the 2 to take a seat on the choose committee investigating the Jan. 6. Capitol riots.
McCarthy made the feedback as he attended an occasion marking the thirty first anniversary of the signing of the Individuals with Disabilities Act within the Rose Backyard.
Requested if he would mete out punishment to Kinzinger and Cheney for accepting seats on the panel, McCarthy mentioned: “We’ll see.”
“Have you ever spoken with former President [Donald] Trump about what occurred with the committee?” reporters requested.
“I don’t discuss January sixth. I spoke to the president,” he mentioned, including that he “couldn’t inform” when he final spoke to Cheney or Kinzinger.
Pelosi named Cheney of Wyoming and Kinzinger of Illinois to the Jan. 6 panel after she rejected McCarthy’s decisions of GOP Reps. Jim Jordan and Jim Banks.
McCarthy mentioned Pelosi’s rejecting Jordan and Banks turns the committee right into a “sham.”
“In the historical past of Congress by no means has a speaker carried out that. … She’s damaged Congress. Then it simply makes the entire committee a sham and the end result predetermined,” McCarthy mentioned.
After Pelosi pulled Jordan and Banks, each of whom are Trump allies, McCarthy withdrew his different decisions – Reps. Rodney Davis of Illinois, Kelly Armstrong of South Dakota and Troy Nehls of Texas.
Cheney and Kinzinger are the one two Republicans on the panel.
The committee will maintain its first listening to on Tuesday and is anticipated to hearken to testimony from Capitol Cops about their experiences on Jan. 6.
Requested what he considered the witnesses, McCarthy replied, “I don’t know.”
