Jan. 6 Committee Subpoenas PA Gubernatorial Candidate

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Jan. 6 congressional committee investigating last year's U.S. Capitol attack has issued a subpoena to Doug Mastriano, a Republican state senator and Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate.

The committee is seeking records and testimony from Mastarino and the five other people subpoenaed. Mastriano has been instructed to produce the documents by March 1 and appear before the panel on March 10.

The committee said Tuesday that it was seeking information about efforts to send false slates of electors to Washington and change the outcome of the 2020 election.

"We understand that you have knowledge of and participated in a plan to arrange for an alternate slate of electors to be presented to the President of the Senate on January 6, 2021, and we understand that you spoke with former President Trump about your post-election activities," Rep. Bernie Thompson of Mississippi, the committee chair, wrote in a letter to Mastriano.

The committee also wants to ask Mastriano about his participation in the Jan. 6 riot by pro-Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol and delayed the certification of Joe Biden's win.

"Based on your public statements, we understand that you were present during the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, and that you witnessed “agitators...getting in the face of the police” and “agitators...start pushing the police up the [Capitol] steps," Thompson's letter stated.

"We would like to better understand...events that you witnessed or in which you participated, and communications we believe you may have had with national, state, and local officials about the outcome of the November 2020 election."

Mastriano was photographed at the insurrection but has denied entering the Capitol building.

Mastriano has yet to publicly respond to the letter.

Mastriano, of Franklin County, was among 63 GOP state lawmakers signed a statement in December 2020 asking Congress to block Pennsylvania's electoral votes from being cast for Biden.

Biden received 3,458,229 votes in Pennsylvania to Trump's 3, 377,674 and captured the state's 20 electoral votes. Biden's victory in Pennsylvania won the presidency for him.

Mastriano announced his gubernatorial bid last month, putting him among more than a dozen GOP candidates vying for the Republican nomination in the May 17 primary.

See the entire committee letter here.

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