Attorney General Merrick Garland said Wednesday he is open to testifying before the House Judiciary Committee, after Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, subpoenaed him to appear last month.

At a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing, Rep. Ben Cline, R-Va., asked on Jordan’s behalf if Garland would ever reply to Jordan’s January request to testify.

"My chairman, Mr. Jordan, has asked me to ask you about a letter he sent back in January, asking you to appear before his committee," Cline said. "He has not gotten a response to that letter. Can I get a commitment from you to respond to him in the immediate future…?"

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"Of course I’m going to appear before the House Judiciary Committee," Garland replied. "I understand there are discussions about scheduling that have been going on. I don’t think there’s any problem in that respect."

"There’s been no response to the letter, so I think there’s some question about whether you would be willing to appear," Cline said. "So getting your commitment to appear is helpful."

"I am willing. More than willing," Garland said.

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In early February, Jordan subpoenaed Garland and other Biden administration officials to testify on the government’s "misuse of federal criminal and counterterrorism resources" to target parents at school board meetings.

The Justice Department called Jordan’s subpoena "premature" and said it has offered to engage with the committee.

"We have offered to engage with the Committee and provide information voluntarily, so a subpoena is premature," wrote Carlos Felipe Uriarte, assistant attorney general for the Office of Legislative Affairs.

In today’s hearing, Garland defended the Justice Department’s memo that called for a closer look at threats of violence against school administrators. The memo was motivated in part by a National School Boards Association letter that said threats from parents might be seen as a form of domestic terrorism, and Republicans say DOJ inappropriately took a step in that direction with its memo.

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But Garland said the memo was only aimed at violent threats, not parents with complaints about how their schools are run.

"The memo was aimed at violence and threats of violence, it was not aimed at parents protesting to their school board," he said. "It was very clear in the second sentence that that is constitutionally protected. The memo was not aimed at parents in any respect, it was aimed at violence and threats of violence against school administrators and teachers."

Rep. Nancy Pelosi, who identifies as a Roman Catholic, lectured Americans Tuesday on why they should vote not based on their religious views but on how politics will influence their lives.

"Give some advice to those who are frustrated by our politics now," MSNBC host Joy Reid requested of Pelosi.

Reid asked Pelosi to speak to Americans directly and convince them "to vote not on how politics will impact your religion, but how it will impact your life. You’re a religious person," Reid said to Pelosi. 

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Pelosi referenced John F. Kennedy, the first Catholic President of the United States, in her answer. 

"'It’s not important what religion I believe in. What’s important is what America I believe in,’" Pelosi said, quoting Kennedy. 

"And that’s what we have to be thinking in terms of taking it to people," she said. 

She also seemingly used the opportunity to take potshots at former President Donald Trump and his supporters. 

"I do think that many of the people who fell for what’s-his-name’s line, because they just didn’t see a path in the future, in the economy the way it was. I think many of them are really patriotic. I think some of them are racist and bigots, but I think many of them are very patriotic."

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Pelosi addressed Republican members of Congress in the same interview, telling them that their "political survival is nothing compared to the survival of our children in their schools, in their playgrounds, wherever they happen to be."

It was a reference to the Nashville, Tennessee shooting from Monday, during which 28-year-old Audrey Hale, who identified as transgender, opened fire on students and staff at a private Christian school in an attack that shocked the country. 

Hale was shot dead by police after killing six, including three children. 

Pelosi, President Joe Biden and other Democratic Party leaders have called on Congress to ban assault weapons in the wake of the shooting. 

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Pelosi also drew attention last week for calling out San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone after he barred her from receiving communion within his church.

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Archbishop Cordileone told Pelosi that she would have to renounce her support for abortion and go to Confession before she could be allowed to receive communion within the Church.

Fox News’ Brie Stimson contributed to this report.