House Speaker Kevin McCarthy confirmed that he will make good on his pledge to boot three high-profile Democrats – Reps. Adam Schiff, Eric Swalwell and Ilhan Omar – from their House com…
Schiff and Swalwell would be removed from the House Intelligence Committee while Omar would be kicked off the House Foreign Affairs Committee.almost exactly a year ago that he would remove the three Democrats if Republicans won back the House in the 2022 midterm elections and repeated that promise last November after his prediction was realized.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy confirmed that he will remove three Democrats – Reps. Adam Schiff, Eric Swalwell and Ilhan Omar – from their House committees.Bloomberg via Getty Images “The Democrats have created a new thing where they’re picking and choosing who could be on committee,” McCarthy said last January. “Never in the history [of Congress] have you had the majority tell the minority who could be on committee but this new standard, which these Democrats have voted for — if Eric Swalwell cannot get a security clearance in the private sector, there’s no reason why he should be given one to be on Intel or Homeland Security.
. “You have Adam Schiff, who had lied to the American public time and again. We will not allow him to be on the Intel Committee either.”Rep. Ilhan Omar, a Democrat from Minnesota.Schiff drew Republicans’ ire after he headed up the first impeachment of former President Donald Trump and was a member of the House select committee that examined Trump’s role in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.
McCarthy has said that he would boot Omar, of Minnesota, a member of the progressive “Squad” along with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, from the Foreign Affairs Committee because of her“I promised you last year that as speaker she will no longer be on Foreign Affairs, and I’m keeping that promise,” he told a crowd at the Republican Jewish Coalition’s 2022 leadership meeting last November.
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