The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol announced it would meet Monday for a business meeting ahead of the discharge of its widely-anticipated end-of-year report because it wraps its nearly 18-month-long investigation.
The panel, which is about to dissolve soon after the completion of its report and under a Republican-controlled House in the brand new yr, is predicted to release its report next week after Monday’s 1 p.m. meeting, where it’s set to be formally adopted.
With the announcement, it stays unclear whether the meeting will function similarly to the numerous public hearings the committee has previously conducted. Its last public meeting in October, where the committee took the daring step of voting to subpoena former President Donald Trump, was likewise billed as a “business meeting,” giving the panel the power to conduct a vote on “further investigative motion.”
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Questions on whether and the way the committee will make a criminal referral for the previous president – or others – have circulated in recent weeks. Such a move can be largely symbolic, especially with a DOJ investigation already underway. And the committee could also be just as effective with its widely anticipated end-of-year report that – like its many hearings – will likely argue that Trump and others near him committed crimes of their effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson of Mississippi told reporters on Tuesday that the panel would release its final report back to the general public on Dec. 21. Others have noted that the report could also be released even sooner. And announcements about criminal referrals are expected to return during Monday’s meeting.
The meeting is about to be conducted within the newly renamed Speaker Pelosi Caucus Room, after Rep. Zoe Lofgren of California, a member of the Jan. 6 committee, introduced a resolution to designate the room as such following Pelosi’s announcement that she’s going to step down from her decades-long leadership in the brand new Congress.