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The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol published 34 witness transcripts on Dec. 21, 2022, adding to the public record as it moved through a late-stage release of investigation materials. The committee’s witness-materials page lists that Dec. 21 batch separately from later transcript drops in the final days of the panel’s work. ([january6th-benniethompson.house.gov](https://january6th-benniethompson.house.gov/media-center/select-committee-witness-materials))

The newly posted records broadened the paper trail around the committee’s probe into efforts to overturn the 2020 election. The materials page shows the Dec. 21 release sitting alongside later uploads on Dec. 22, Dec. 23, Dec. 27, Dec. 29, Dec. 30 and Jan. 2, confirming that the committee’s transcript releases continued after the first 34 were made public. ([january6th-benniethompson.house.gov](https://january6th-benniethompson.house.gov/media-center/select-committee-witness-materials))

The index does not, by itself, say everything about every transcript in that Dec. 21 batch, so it is safest to describe the release as a set of witness records rather than to overstate which named figures were included without checking each individual entry. The committee’s materials page does show a large roster of people whose testimony was eventually posted, including Trump allies and advisers, along with others tied to the post-election effort. ([january6th-benniethompson.house.gov](https://january6th-benniethompson.house.gov/media-center/select-committee-witness-materials))

For a panel that spent months compiling witness accounts, phone records, documents and interview transcripts, the late-December postings were less a fresh revelation than a final cleanup of the record. The practical effect was simple: more of the committee’s evidence became searchable, downloadable and available for anyone comparing testimony, public statements and the sequence of events around Jan. 6. ([january6th-benniethompson.house.gov](https://january6th-benniethompson.house.gov/media-center/select-committee-witness-materials))