Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., presented video evidence which showed for the first time just how close House lawmakers were to rioters.
New security video showed members -- many in gas masks -- being escorted by Capitol Police out of the chamber and to another location, as police officers had guns drawn, with some rioters lying on the ground with their hands zip-tied.
Swalwell also played video of the senators being escorted out of the Senate chamber.
"Some of you, I understand, could hear them. But most of the public doesn't understand how close the rioters came to you," he said. "You were just 58 steps away from where the mob was amassing and where police were rushing to stop them."
"If the doors to the chamber had been breached just minutes earlier, imagine what they could have done with those cuffs," he said, showing a photo of a rioter in the chamber with plastic flex cuffs.
He then played video of senators walking by a group of Capitol Police officer barricading a hallway between them, and the rioters.
Swalwell also showed what he described as Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer's "near miss" with rioters, playing a video of Schumer being escorted down a hallway and doubling back to avoid running into the mob.
"They came within just 2 yards of the rioters and had to turn around," Swalwell said.
He also played video from Rep. Dan Kildee, D-Mich., from the House gallery during the riot in which Rep. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., a Marine veteran, can be heard shouting to his colleagues, "Take your pins off!"
-ABC News' Benjamin Siegel
