The Republicans are trying to pass a rule that would prevent the materials from going to the National Archives.
The raw information gathered by the House committee investigating the insurrection will be sent to the National Archives, where it will be locked away for up to 50 years.
The new Congress will vote on Tuesday on a package of rules that will require any record created by the panel to be sent to the House Committee on House Administration.
It's possible that the House Republicans will try to rebut the investigation. The investigation concluded that Trump deliberately misled and provoked the insurrectionists in order to stay in power after he lost the election.
In November, Kevin McCarthy sent a letter to the chair of the committee demanding the preservation of all records collected.
The official Congressional Records don't belong to you or any member, but to the American people, and they are owed all of the information you gathered.
The governing body of Capitol Police needs to be changed, according to House Republican leaders.
The House Committee on House Administration is the custodian of the records. Under House rules, the committee must give the official records to the House clerk, who then sends them to the National Archives. The National Archives can't release committee records for more than 30 years. It can take up to 50 years for sensitive records to be made public.
It's unusual to target a single committee's records for retention rather than submit them to the national archives. The committee records can be recalled by the House at any time for official use.
The proposed change requires the quick transfer of records from the January 6th Select Committee to the House Administration Committee. The National Archives may not get the records before the new Congress ends.
The House Rules Committee and the House Committee on House Administration did not reply to requests for comment Monday.
The National Archives has begun to receive records from the committee.
The committee is set to end at midnight. On Tuesday, Eastern Standard Time published hundreds of interview or deposition transcripts and thousands of pages of evidence from the report to an online repository. Dozens of previously undiscovered transcripts, expert statements, and nearly 400 documents were included in the report. The repository has at least 75 videos that were shown during the committee's nine hearings.
Only the information that was cited in the report was released. Most of the information it released was tailored to back up the conclusions of the final report. The National Archives was expected to get the rest of the material the panel got.
Emails and text messages that witnesses or federal agencies provided to the committee that were not included in the final report are among the information that wasn't made public. The National Archives was expected to get raw footage from witness depositions, police video cameras, and documentary filmmakers that were not shown during hearings.
Of the hundreds of text messages and emails former White House Chief of Staff MarkMeadows handed over while he was complying with the committee, only the emails or text messages referenced in the report have been officially released. All records produced by the Secret Service or Department of Defense about what they knew about the threats of violence on January 6 will be kept confidential.
Internal White House emails and communications, call logs and other records that the committee received from the National Archives after a lengthy legal battle with former President Trump were expected to be sent back to the Archives.
The political forces that led to the attack were the subject of the committee's investigation. Only a small portion of the interviews were transcribed and released through the repository.
Many of the millions of pages of information and evidence collected by the committee were obtained through subpoenas or lengthy court battles, including one over White House records that was decided in the committee's favor by the Supreme Court
The scope of information collected by the committee goes far beyond what appears in the repository and does not exist in any other place. The Republicans blocked the creation of an independent, nonpartisan commission to study the attack because they didn't like the way it was done.
Steve Bannon, an informal advisor to the president, sent a text to his spokeswoman about the capitol being surrounded by a million people after Biden was inaugurated.
Experts were concerned that a limited release of information would hurt the committee's goals of accountability and guaranteeing the historical record is accurate. The people watching the hearings, including journalists and government watchdog groups, have been waiting for the panel to give them raw information so they can continue their investigations.
The Department of Justice's investigation isn't likely to be made public. In December, the Department of Justice requested information from the committee.
The story was originally published in the LA Times.
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