9 days ago
Breitbart
Jan. 24 (UPI) — House Speaker Kevin McCarthy formally rejected the reseating of Reps. Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell on the House intelligence committee on Tuesday night, fulfilling a promise to bar the senior California Democrats from reappointment on the grounds of national security. McCarthy, who picked up the House gavel earlier this month, had long vowed to kick the pair of Democrats off the committee as the speaker repeatedly accused Schiff, the committee’s former chair, of using his position to publicly lie about Trump. McCarthy also accused Swalwell of connections to a suspected Chinese spy. To reporters Tuesday, prior to notifying Jeffries of his decision, McCarthy accused Schiff of “lying to the American public again and again.”“He does not have a right to sit on that,” he said. McCarthy on Tuesday accused those moves of being politically motivated and that what he was doing was not in retaliation.
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