Speaking before a formal decision had been made, Representative Bennie Thompson said his panel had not agreed on who would be the subject of the referrals or what the charges would be.
The reversal of a district judge’s intervention in the Mar-a-Lago documents investigation shows the complexity of former President Donald J. Trump’s judicial legacy.
The letter demanding that the panel preserve its records a step already required was the latest indication that the G.O.P. is planning its own counter-investigation into the Jan. 6 attack.
Mr. Ornato, a former Secret Service agent and White House aide, is at the center of a dispute over competing accounts of President Donald J. Trump’s actions.