- GOP members are calling on party leaders to boot duo from other committees
- One Republican questioned if the pair has ‘already effectively left’ the party
- ‘Today, I was asked by the Speaker to serve on the House Select Committee to Investigate January 6th and I humbly accepted,’ Kinzinger said in a statement
- Kinzinger and Cheney will participate in the panel’s first hearing on Tuesday
- The Illinois congressman was the first Republican House member to call for Trump’s removal from office by invoking the 25th Amendment
- Wyoming Rep. Cheney joined Kinzinger in voting for Trump’s second impeachment
- Pelosi said on Sunday that Kinzinger ‘and other Republicans have expressed an interest to serve on the select committee’
- The GOP warned Democrats should ‘expect endless retaliation’
- ‘I didn’t think things could get more partisan in the House,’ a top GOP aide said
- Added: ‘Pelosi’s decision to remove Republicans from the January 6th Committee just took things to an entirely new level’
- Pelosi vetoed Reps. Jim Banks and Jim Jordan from serving on the committee
- McCarthy pulled all five picks and accused Pelosi of ‘breaking this institution’