Rep. Scott Perry pushed back Sunday when asked whether he would recuse himself from any House GOP investigation of federal probes into the events surrounding the Jan. 6 riot.
“Why should I be limited just because someone has made an accusation? Everybody in America is innocent until proven guilty,” Perry said in an interview on ABC's"This Week" with host George Stephanopoulos.
Perry was pressed on whether any potential involvement in a new committee would pose a conflict of interest given that he was among those being investigated. “So, should everybody in Congress that disagrees with somebody be barred from doing the oversight and investigative powers that Congress has? That’s our charge,” Perry said.“And again, that’s appropriate for every single member regardless of what accusations that are being made,” he added. “I get accused of all kinds of things every single day, as does every member that serves in the public eye. But that doesn’t stop you from doing your job. It is our duty and it is my duty.
Newly elected House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., has indicated that Republicans intend to probe the work of the now-defunct House committee that investigated the Jan. 6 riot. In November, McCarthy sent a letter to then-committee Chair Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., to preserve all records and transcripts and vowed to hold hearings in the new Congress on the security failures that led to the Capitol attack.
that includes the creation of an investigative subcommittee on the Judiciary Committee charged with probing what they call"the weaponization of the federal government."
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