{"id":1801363,"date":"2023-01-10T14:20:09","date_gmt":"2023-01-10T19:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1801363"},"modified":"2023-01-10T16:42:56","modified_gmt":"2023-01-10T21:42:56","slug":"mccarthy-to-remove-schiff-omar-and-swalwell-from-congressional-committees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mccarthy-to-remove-schiff-omar-and-swalwell-from-congressional-committees\/","title":{"rendered":"McCarthy to Remove Schiff, Omar, and Swalwell From Congressional Committees"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmccarthy-to-remove-schiff-omar-and-swalwell-from-congressional-committees%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1801363&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Kevin McCarthy, Speaker of the House, confirmed Monday night that Eric Swalwell and Adam Schiff, Democratic California Representatives were removed from the House Intelligence Committee. The House will also vote to remove Ilhan Omar, Minnesota Rep. from the Foreign Affairs Committee.<\/p>\n<p>In February, McCarthy\u00a0told\u00a0the Daily Caller that if he is elected Speaker that he intends to strip Omar from the Foreign Affairs Committee and Swalwell and Schiff from the Intelligence Committee. On Monday, McCarthy\u00a0confirmed\u00a0to The Associated Press (AP) that he would be moving forward with that decision, saying both Swalwell and Schiff should not have seats on the committee.<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy has said Swalwell\u2019s\u00a0reported\u00a0relationship with a Chinese spy and Schiff\u2019s defense of the Steele dossier are some of the reasons they should be removed from the committee. McCarthy has said Omar\u2019s\u00a0anti-Semitism is a reason she should be removed from Foreign Affairs.<\/p>\n<p data-inc=\"1\">\u201cSwalwell can\u2019t get a security clearance in the private sector. I\u2019m not going to give him a government security clearance. Schiff has lied to the American public\u2026,\u201d McCarthy spoke to The Associated Press.\u00a0<strong>(RELATED: Gingrich Defends McCarthy\u2019s Threat To Remove Dems From Committees, Says Pelosi \u2018Set The Precedent\u2019)<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7618194\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter featured-image relative\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7618194\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Ilhan Omar, a Democratic-MN Representative, attends a Press Conference to celebrate U.S. president Joe Biden&#8217;s cancelling of student debt on Capitol Hill September 29, 2022 in Washington DC. (Photo by JemalCountess\/Getty Image for We,The 45 Million).<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Democrats took Marjorie Taylor Greene, Republican Georgia Rep., from her assignments to committees in 2021.\u00a0<strong>(RELATED : EXCLUSIVE : Kevin McCarthy Plans An Investigation Avalanche If the GOP Retakes the House)<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"readmore\"><\/div>\n<p>The Daily Caller contacted Swalwell, Schiff, and Omar\u2019s offices about McCarthy\u2019s decision to move forward and have them removed from committee assignments to which they did not immediately respond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin McCarthy, Speaker of the House, confirmed Monday night that Eric Swalwell and Adam Schiff, Democratic California Representatives were removed from the House Intelligence Committee. The House will also vote to remove Ilhan Omar, Minnesota Rep. from the Foreign Affairs Committee. In February, McCarthy\u00a0told\u00a0the Daily Caller that if he is elected Speaker that he intends &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[5458,5365,4490,3663,5205,4987,3819,5159,6741],"class_list":["post-1801363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-bongino","tag-committees","tag-congressional","tag-mccarthy","tag-omar","tag-remove","tag-report","tag-schiff","tag-swalwell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1801363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1801363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1801363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1801363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}