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Committee Actions to Date

On July 15, 2024, Chairman Peters and Ranking Member Paul announced their

investigation into the assassination attempt on former President Trump and called for a briefing

and public hearing within 15 days. 12 On July 24 and 25, 2024, Chairmen Peters and Blumenthal

and Ranking Members Paul and Johnson sent ten letters requesting documents and information

to the USSS, FBI, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Intelligence and Analysis,

Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), Beaver County District Attorney,

Butler County District Attorney, Butler County Sheriff, Butler Township Police Department,

Pennsylvania State Police (PSP), and Clairton Sportsmen’s Club as well as a letter requesting

voluntary transcribed interviews with USSS individuals responsible for planning and security on

July 13.13

On July 25, 2024, Acting USSS Director Rowe and FBI National Security Branch

Executive Assistant Director Wells provided a closed-door unclassified briefing for HSGAC and

Judiciary Committee Members. 14 And on July 30, 2024, Acting Director Rowe and FBI Deputy

Director Paul Abbate testified at a joint public hearing before the Senate HSGAC and Judiciary

Committees.15

On August 14, 2024, the Committee wrote DHS Secretary Mayorkas and FBI Director

Wray seeking additional information about the July 12, 2024 arrest of Asif Merchant for

12 Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Gary Peters and Ranking Member

Rand Paul letter to Honorable Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary, Department of Homeland Security and Honorable

Christopher Wray, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice (July 15, 2024).

13 Letters from Chairman Gary Peters and Ranking Member Rand Paul, Senate Committee on Homeland

Security and Governmental Affairs, and Chairman Richard Blumenthal and Ranking Member Ron Johnson,

Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, to Acting Director Ronald Rowe, U.S. Secret Service,

Department of Homeland Security (July 24, 2024), Director Christopher Wray, Federal Bureau of

Investigation, Department of Justice (July 24, 2024), Undersecretary Kenneth Wainstein, Office of

Intelligence and Analysis, Department of Homeland Security (July 24, 2024), District Attorney Nathan Bible,

Beaver County District Attorney’s Office (July 24, 2024), District Attorney Richard Goldinger, Butler County

District Attorney’s Office (July 24, 2024), Sheriff Michael Slupe, Butler County Sheriff’s Office (July 24,

2024), Acting Chief of Police Lt. Matthew Pearson, Butler Township Police Department (July 24, 2024),

Commissioner Colonel Christopher Paris, Pennsylvania State Police (July 24, 2024), Acting Director Ronald

Rowe, U.S. Secret Service, Department of Homeland Security (July 25, 2024); Clairton Sportsmen’s Club

(July 25, 2024); Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (July 25, 2024).

14 Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Secret Service, and Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of

Investigation, Briefing with Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and Senate

Committee on the Judiciary (July 25, 2024).

15 Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and Senate Committee on the Judiciary,

Examination of the Security Failures Leading to the Assassination Attempt on Former President Trump, 118th Cong.

(July 30, 2024) (S. Hrg. 118-XX).

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