Jim Jordan declines ‘unprecedented and inappropriate’ Jan. 6 committee request for cooperation

Published January 10, 2022 2:02am ET



Rep. Jim Jordan will not comply with the Jan. 6 Select Committee’s request that he voluntarily appear before the panel and provide investigators with information about his conversations with former President Donald Trump.

“It amounts to an unprecedented and inappropriate demand to examine the basis for a colleague’s decision on a particular matter pending before the House of Representatives,” the Ohio Republican said in a Sunday letter to Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, chairman of the committee.

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