Rep. Rodney Davis (R-Ill.), who McCarthy initially appointed to serve on the committee before retracting all his picks: “The proof’s gonna be in the pudding later when they start asking questions. … Remember, the security posture was a failure of epic proportions … because of failures of leadership in this institution.”

Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.), who’s running for Senate in Alabama, told Axios’ Sarah Mucha: “I haven’t given it any substantive thought at all. I’ve chuckled, on occasion, but what’s going on with this group of people that Nancy Pelosi has put together?”

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.): “She kicked Jim Jordan off. It can’t be perceived as anything but partisan.”

Rep. Debbie Lesko (R-Ariz.): “Speaker Pelosi kicked off her partisan circus. It’s a sad state of affairs when Congress has an opportunity to provide the American people with answers but the authoritarian House Speaker has put her partisan narrative over pursuing the facts.”