Speaker Kevin McCarthy is reiterating that he will block Democratic Reps. Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell of California from serving on the House committee that oversees national intelligence.
FILE - House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., left, joined by Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., speaks to reporters at a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Feb. 23, 2022. Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries has nominated the two California lawmakers for the Intelligence Committee in open defiance of House Speaker Kevin McCarthys vow to block them. Jeffries asked that Schiff and Swalwell be reappointed to the Intelligence panel.
Unlike most committees, appointments to the Intelligence panel are the prerogative of the speaker, with input from the minority leader. McCarthy tried to have Swalwell removed from the Intelligence panel in March 2021 based on his contact with a suspected Chinese spy. His resolution against Swalwell, which was voted down in the Democratic-led House, cited information that the suspected spy, Christine Fang, came into contact with Swalwell’s campaign as he was first running for Congress in 2012 and participated in fundraising for his 2014 campaign.
Schiff told colleagues in 2021 that Republican leaders in 2015, including then-House Speaker John Boehner and the then-chairman of the intelligence panel, Republican Rep. Devin Nunes, were briefed on the situation with Swalwell and “expressed no opposition to his continued service” on the Intelligence committee.“We're going to make the Intel Committee back to what it was supposed to be. No longer will we miss what happened in Afghanistan.
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