CONTROVERSIAL Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is calling for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to be investigated in connection with the insurrection at the Capitol and delayed requests for National Guard assistance.

Greene's tweet comes as Pelosi has received criticism for maintaining the House rules requiring masks in the House chamber, despite this week's loosened mask guidelines from the CDC.

Greene, a Republican from Georgia with a history of spreading conspiracy theories, tweeted that Pelosi should be investigated for delaying the mobilization of the National Guard during the Capitol riot on January 6.

"That was a very serious and grave action taken to ignore the President’s request for (National Guard) troops at the Capitol," Greene tweeted. "There needs to be accountability for that."

The accusation appears to be in reference to a debunked claim propagated by Trump-supporting Republicans that the Speaker denied Trump's request for National Guard troops ahead of the insurrection.

Trump also claimed that Pelosi rejected his offer of national guard support, but that claim has been proven false as well.

There are legitimate lingering questions about the response time of the National Guard, and lawmakers agreed this morning to a bipartisan commission to investigate the events of January 6.

Greene's tweet comes as House Republicans are pushing back on Pelosi for maintaining the mask rule, which requires members to be masked while on the House floor unless they are debating.

Pelosi told CNN she would keep the mask requirement, despite the CDC's new guidelines that vaccinated people can stop wearing masks indoors.

"Are they all vaccinated?" Pelosi asked, referring to her colleagues in Congress.

The Capitol Attending Physician confirmed that the mask requirements in the House will “remain unchanged until all Members and floor staff are fully vaccinated."

In April, Pelosi said 75 percent of House representatives had been vaccinated, although some have refused the shot outright.

"We can't require vaccinations for the members of Congress," Pelosi said at the time. "The (House) physician cannot tell us Democrats, Republicans or who — and that's right, we should be respecting people's privacy."

Ohio Republican Rep. Bob Gibbs objected, saying the new CDC guidance means members of Congress should be able to stop wearing masks.

"There is no reason the House of Representatives should not be fully open and returned to normal operations," Gibbs said in a statement. "It’s time to end the House’s mask mandate and staggered voting.”

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