Ranking Members Raskin, Swalwell Recommend Eight Hearing Topics to Guide New Jan. 6th Select Subcommittee’s Work

Washington, D.C. (September 16, 2025)—Today, Rep. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, and Rep. Eric Swalwell, Ranking Member of the Select Subcommittee to Investigate the Remaining Questions Surrounding January 6, 2021, sent a letter to Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan and Select Subcommittee Chairman Barry Loudermilk pressing them for assurances that their newly formed Select Subcommittee will hold public hearings and work in a bipartisan manner. Ranking Members Raskin and Swalwell suggested eight potential hearing topics that would address outstanding questions surrounding the insurrectionist attack on the Capitol, including whether Congress is adequately supporting the law enforcement officers who defended Congress on January 6, the public safety consequences of President Trump’s sweeping pardons for violent cop beaters, and whether the events surrounding January 6 contributed to the subsequent rise of political violence and domestic violent extremism that we are seeing today. 

“It is essential that our newly formed select subcommittee operate with the same commitment to bipartisan investigation, scrupulous devotion to the facts and public transparency that defined the work of its predecessor in the 117th Congress. We thus call upon you to commit to a fully transparent process with open hearings and full public disclosure. Surely the American public, which witnessed the unprecedented mass violent attack on the peaceful transfer of power on January 6, and the law enforcement officers who put their lives on the line to protect us, deserve no less,” wrote Ranking Members Raskin and Swalwell.

On September 5, 2025, House Republicans snuck into a procedural vote language to authorize another Select Subcommittee to investigate the January 6 attack on the Capitol. 

As Republicans’ new Select Subcommittee seeks to address outstanding questions regarding the January 6 attack, Ranking Members Raskin and Swalwell are urging their Republican colleagues to pursue several pertinent areas of investigation, including into the public safety and policy consequences of pardoning nearly 1,600 criminals who attacked the Capitol and assaulted police officers and whether Congress has sufficiently supported all the law enforcement officers who defended the Capitol with their lives and were violently injured on January 6.

The Ranking Members additionally pressed the Republican Chairmen for assurances that Congress can secure the testimony and full cooperation of the individuals who were witness to, or participated in, the insurrectionary effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election, but who willfully defied Congressional subpoenas from the predecessor Select Committee and were held in contempt of Congress for obstructing the investigation.

In December 2022, the bipartisan Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol released an 800-page report, together with a library of supporting materials that remains online to this day, detailing the findings of its 18-month investigation into the facts, circumstances, and causes that led to the violent attack on the Capitol. The report was based on the Committee’s interview of more than 1,000 witnesses and its review of more than 1 million documents and hundreds of hours of video.

Click here to read the letter.