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WASHINGTON — Former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence said Wednesday that he would consider testifying before a House committee investigating the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol if he receives an invitation. Stated.
Pence's aide told the commission in June that former President Donald Trump pressured then-Vice President to reverse his 2020 election loss. .
Pence said Trump believed it was wrong to believe that the Vice President had the power to overturn the outcome of the election.
Trump has repeatedly denied wrongdoing.
One of Pence's senior aides testified before the committee, and Mark Short, his top staff member at the time, testified before a federal grand jury investigating the attack. . However, the committee has not officially issued an invitation to Mr. Pence.
In a speech at an event in New Hampshire on Wednesday, Pence said he would give any invitation to testify to "due care."
"The invitations addressed to me would force me to think about the unique role I had served as Vice President," Pence said at a "political&egg" breakfast at the New. He told the assembled people that he had his college in St. Anselm, Hampshire.
A spokesperson for the 6 January Commission did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Wednesday. Committee members said in June they were considering whether to coerce Pence to testify.
Pence said Wednesday that "it is unprecedented in history for a Vice President to be subpoenaed to testify before Congress."
According to the U.S. Senate websitehttps://www.senate.gov/committees/SittingPresidentsVicePresidentsWhoHaveTestifiedBeforeCongressionalCommittees.htm, from 1869 he served as Vice President to Ulysses S. Grant until 1873. Participated in the special committee voluntarily.
At least six of his current and former presidents have also testified before congressional committees, according to the website.
(Reporting by Rami Ayyub and Patricia Zengerle, Editing by Tim Ahmann and Howard Goller)
