House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., has spoken to multiple Republican members of his conference about serving on the House select committee to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, multiple congressional sources told NBC News.
The discussions signal that he doesn’t plan to boycott the committee, as was initially unclear. He is ultimately expected to make appointments to the five unfilled committee seats, the sources said.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has the final say over which lawmakers McCarthy can appoint to the panel.
Some GOP members have publicly volunteered to serve on the committee. Meanwhile, others who have spoken to McCarthy view serving on the committee, whose work could drag well into the 2022 election cycle, less enthusiastically.