The House committee investigating the events of Jan. 6 will hold its next public hearing on Oct. 13 at 1 p.m., the panel announced Thursday.
Rescheduled Jan. 6 committee hearing is set for next Thursday 10/13 at 1pm.
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The much-anticipated hearing will be the panel’s ninth public meeting and possibly its last before lawmakers release their final report later this year. The hearing was scheduled to take place on Sept. 28 but was postponed due to Hurricane Ian making landfall in Florida and traveling up the East Coast.
One of the committee members, Rep. Stephanie Murphy (D-FL), represents a district that was in the path of the hurricane. Murphy represents Florida’s 7th Congressional District, which covers much of the north-central part of the state between Orlando and Daytona Beach.
The hearing is expected to feature “substantial footage” of the Capitol riot and “significant witness testimony” that has not been previously seen, Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-MS) said last month. It will also be the first public hearing since the FBI conducted its raid of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in August, although it’s unclear whether that search provided any new evidence for the committee’s investigation.
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The focus of the hearing is not clear, but each of the eight other public meetings over the summer had a specific theme seeking to tie Trump’s actions in the weeks after the election to the Capitol riot.
If Republicans recapture the House in the midterm elections, they are expected to seek revenge against the Jan. 6 committee, giving its members a fast-approaching deadline to complete their work. Thompson said his panel might release some interim information before the November elections, but a final report would come after those contests.
