Photograph: Rex/Shutterstockĭozens of people in Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi reported seeing a remarkably bright meteor on Wednesday after hearing loud booms. What if the figures don’t cooperate? The panel will then consider ways to compel them to: subpoenas are no longer off the table.īritish Virgin Islands premier arrested on cocaine charges in US sting operationĪ meteor streaks across the sky during the annual Perseid meteor shower in August 2021. Have they been asked to testify before? It would be the second time McCarthy, Jordan and Perry are requested to appear. The list is expected to be authorized as soon as this week. When will the letters be sent? Either this week or next week, according to the sources. The panel is understood to be particularly interested in McCarthy after it emerged this week he had told the Republican leadership that days after the Capitol attack Donald Trump admitted at least partial responsibility to him. The list has not yet been finalized, but two sources said that Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Mo Brooks, Lauren Boebert, Andy Biggs, as well as some Republican senators, are being considered. The House select committee investigating the Capitol attack is expected to issue letters asking significant Republican figures, including the House minority leader, Kevin McCarthy, and about a dozen others, to appear before the panel voluntarily, sources close to the matter said. The scope and subjects of the letters are not yet finalized. Kevin McCarthy, the House minority leader.