The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol will hold a sixth hearing on Tuesday, June 28, after previously stating that it would not be holding more hearings for the remainder of the month.
The decision comes as the committee plans to “present recently obtained evidence and receive witness testimony” according to an advisory released June 27. The hearing will be held at 1 p.m. Eastern time. No further details were provided.
The House committee had previously been scheduled to take a break from hearings until July.
“We’ve taken in some additional information that’s going to require additional work. So rather than present hearings that have not been the quality of the hearings in the past, we made a decision to just move into sometime in July,” Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) told reporters on June 22….