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GOP House leader subpoenaed

- United States are favoured to recapture the House majority in this years’s midterm elections, and have promised retributio­n for Democrats if they do so. The panel had asked for voluntary cooperatio­n from the five lawmakers, but all of them refused.

A House panel has issued subpoenas to House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy and four other GOP lawmakers in its probe into the violent January 6, 2021 insurrecti­on at the US Capitol – an extraordin­ary step that has little precedent and is certain to further inflame partisan tensions over the attack. The panel is investigat­ing McCarthy’s conversati­ons with thenPresid­ent Donald Trump the day of the attack, and meetings the four other lawmakers had with the White House beforehand as Trump and his aides worked to overturn his 2020 election defeat. The panel has already interviewe­d nearly 1000 witnesses and collected more than 100,000 documents as it investigat­es the worst attack on the Capitol in two centuries. The move is not without risk, as Republican­s

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