Kevin McCarthy: When We Take the House, We're Stripping Ilhan "Omar" Nur, Eric Swalwell, and Adam Schiff of Their Committee Posts

It's not everything but it's something.

I am happy about the Schiff defenestration most of all.

Although all three are security risks.

"The Democrats have created a new thing where they're picking and choosing who can be on committees," McCarthy said. "Never in the history [of Congress] have you had the majority tell the minority who can 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 is no reason why he should be given one to be on Intel or Homeland Security. He will not be serving there."

"Yes," McCarthy replied when asked if that meant he will use the standard Democrats have created by stripping Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Paul Gosar (R-AZ) of their committee assignments to remove Swalwell from those two committees.

McCarthy also said he will remove Omar from the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

"Ilhan Omar should not be serving on Foreign Affairs," McCarthy said. "This is a new level of what the Democrats have done."

In addition, he said he will pull Schiff--the current HPSCI chairman--off the Intelligence Committee.

"You look at Adam Schiff--he should not be serving on Intel when he has openly, knowingly now used a fake dossier, lied to the American public in the process and doesn't have any ill will [and] says he wants to continue to do it," McCarthy said.

Eric Swalwell claimed that McCarthy was targeting him not because he was Three Deep inside Chinese Intelligence, but because he was such a darned effective member of #TheResistance.

McCarthy is targeting me for 1 reason: I'm effective. He wants to carry water (& sort Starbursts) for Trump's Big Lie & not be called out. He's projecting onto me b/c he's incapable of facing down the Ku Klux Klan elements in his caucus. If he thinks he's silencing me, he's not. https://t.co/43OcNj3mWk

-- Rep. Eric Swalwell (@RepSwalwell)

Yeah that must be it. Chinese communist intelligence has a stack of whatever the Chinese word for kompromat is against you, but you're being kicked off the Intelligence committee because you're "effective."

posted by Ace at 01:15 PM

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