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Rep Lofgren: Wednesday’s Jan. 6 hearing postponed due to overwhelmed staff

The House Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol said on Tuesday that its staff is overwhelmed by demands amid back-to-back public hearings scheduled for this month.

The committee announced that it would postpone its third public meeting scheduled for this month, originally schedule for Wednesday, offering few details behind the delay.

But Rep. Zoe Lofgren, California Democrat and member of the committee, told MSNBC soon after that the delay was due to the overwhelming demands placed on staff to churn out the videos used in the hearings.

“The staff putting together all the videos, you know, doing 1, 2, 3 — it was overwhelming,” Ms.