Rep. Michael Guest (R-Miss.), who voted to overturn the results of the 2020 election, is House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s (R-Calif.) pick to lead the House Ethics Committee.
Fellow election deniers, Reps. John Rutherford (R-Fla.) and Michelle Fischbach (R-Minn.), were also appointed to the panel. All three were among the 139 House Republicans who objected to the counting of the electoral college votes for Joe Biden win after a pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
McCarthy also voted to overturn the election results and not certify Biden’s win.
The two other Republicans appointed to the committee — Reps. David Joyce (Ohio) and Andrew R. Garbarino (N.Y.) — have disavowed efforts to overturn the 2020 election, and both supported a bipartisan effort to create an independent commission that would have been tasked with investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection. Senate Republicans blocked the creation of such a commission. Instead, then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) moved ahead with the establishment of a select committee that investigated the attack.
Guest — who also voted in favor of the failed commission — was also one of 126 House Republicans who signed an amicus brief in support of a lawsuit filed by the state of Texas in the Supreme Court contesting the results of the 2020 election.
In a statement Tuesday, McCarthy said House Republicans are “working to restore integrity, accountability, and transparency to the halls of Congress.”
“The Members on this committee will work to build trust among the American people,” he added.
Fellow election deniers, Reps. John Rutherford (R-Fla.) and Michelle Fischbach (R-Minn.), were also appointed to the panel. All three were among the 139 House Republicans who objected to the counting of the electoral college votes for Joe Biden win after a pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
McCarthy also voted to overturn the election results and not certify Biden’s win.
The two other Republicans appointed to the committee — Reps. David Joyce (Ohio) and Andrew R. Garbarino (N.Y.) — have disavowed efforts to overturn the 2020 election, and both supported a bipartisan effort to create an independent commission that would have been tasked with investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection. Senate Republicans blocked the creation of such a commission. Instead, then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) moved ahead with the establishment of a select committee that investigated the attack.
Guest — who also voted in favor of the failed commission — was also one of 126 House Republicans who signed an amicus brief in support of a lawsuit filed by the state of Texas in the Supreme Court contesting the results of the 2020 election.
In a statement Tuesday, McCarthy said House Republicans are “working to restore integrity, accountability, and transparency to the halls of Congress.”
“The Members on this committee will work to build trust among the American people,” he added.
