{"id":1820739,"date":"2023-01-23T15:34:44","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T20:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1820739"},"modified":"2023-01-23T15:42:37","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T20:42:37","slug":"democratic-leader-picks-schiff-and-swalwell-for-intel-panel-in-defiance-of-mccarthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democratic-leader-picks-schiff-and-swalwell-for-intel-panel-in-defiance-of-mccarthy\/","title":{"rendered":"Democratic Leader\u00a0Picks Schiff And Swalwell For Intel Panel In Defiance Of McCarthy"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fdemocratic-leader-picks-schiff-and-swalwell-for-intel-panel-in-defiance-of-mccarthy%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=1820739&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-->\n<p>Democrats dare to be Speaker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/kevin-mccarthy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kevin McCarthy<\/a> (R-CA), to keep his promise to eliminate two House Intelligence Committee Members.<\/p>\n<p>Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), Minority Leader, is officially recommended \u201ceminently qualified\u201d With a Saturday letter, Reps. Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell continue to serve on the panel. McCarthy is the recipient of the missive. <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/01\/10\/mccarthy-confirms-he-will-boot-schiff-swalwell-and-omar-from-house-panels\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">vowed retribution<\/a> He accused Democrats of creating a \u201cnew standard\u201d After GOP members were removed from their committee assignments during the last session,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is my understanding that you intend to break with the longstanding House tradition of deference to the minority party Intelligence Committee recommendations and deny seats to Ranking Member Schiff and Representative Swalwell,\u201d Jeffries stated in the letter <a href=\"https:\/\/punchbowl.news\/leader_jeffries_letter_regarding_hpsci_appointments\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">published by Punchbowl News<\/a>. \u201cThe denial of seats to duly elected Members of the House Democratic Caucus runs counter to the serious and sober mission of the Intelligence Committee.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy rose to the speakership while making promises to bump Schiff and Swalwell from their Intelligence Committee perches \u2014 a move he has the power to make unilaterally. McCarthy also spoke out about the possibility of bouncing Rep. Ilhanomar (D-MN), from the Foreign Affairs Committee. However, that would require a House floor vote. McCarthy in November accused Schiff of lying before the American public. \u201ctime and again\u201d and said Swalwell would be unable to get a security clearance in the public sector, alluding to Swalwell\u2019s intimate ties to an alleged Chinese spy years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Long regarded to be apolitical, the House Intelligence Committee became ground zero for partisan sniping during former President Donald Trump\u2019s presidency with investigations into the 2016 election and Trump\u2019s alleged ties to Russia. Schiff, who became the chairman in 2019, claimed there was an &#8220;invisible hand&#8221;. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2019\/04\/21\/adam-schiff-collusion-trump-1283786\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cample\u201d evidence<\/a> Russia collusion<\/p>\n<p>In reacting to McCarthy\u2019s threat to remove him from the panel, <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/sunday-talk-shows\/3751782-schiff-knocks-mccarthys-threat-of-removal-from-intelligence-committee\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Schiff told CNN<\/a> In November \u201cMcCarthy\u2019s problem is not with what I have said about Russia\u201d but rather McCarthy\u2019s bid to earn enough votes to become speaker. \u201cSo, he will misrepresent my record,\u201d Schiff also added. Swalwell argued McCarthy\u2019s actions appeared to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-4wvrTe8Wuo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cpolitical vengeance\u201d<\/a>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/eric-swalwell-denies-wrongdoing-chinese-spy-scandal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">defended himself<\/a> in the Chinese spy scandal by\u00a0pointing to FBI officials <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/03\/18\/eric-swalwell-fbi-christine-fang-477020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">telling the media<\/a> He was cooperative in any investigation and was not suspected to be wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<p>Jeffries argued that Democrats didn&#8217;t set a precedent during their last session as Congressmen, particularly with Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Paul Gosar (R\u2013AZ) losing their committee assignments due to a series of inflammatory comments and a controversial social media video.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the 117th Congress, two Members were removed from their committee assignments after a bipartisan vote of the House found them unfit to serve on standing committees for directly inciting violence against their colleagues,\u201d Jeffries wrote. \u201cThis action was taken by both Democrats and Republicans given the seriousness of the conduct involved, particularly in the aftermath of a violent insurrection and attack on the Capitol.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The House GOP Steering Committee met last week <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/marjorie-taylor-greene-set-to-make-comeback-with-new-committee-assignments\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">elected to give Greene and Gosar fresh committee<\/a> assignments, including on House Oversight Committee.<\/p>\n<p>Jeffries also raised the issue <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/records-contradict-george-santos-claim-his-mother-was-in-world-trade-center-on-9-11-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cserial fraudster\u201d Rep. George Santos (R-NY)<\/a>\u00a0To support his argument. Republicans chose to assign the freshman lawmaker, who admitted to lying about certain aspects of his personal life, committee assignments, despite Santos being subject to multiple investigations and calls for his resignation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe apparent double standard risks undermining the spirit of bipartisan cooperation that is so desperately needed in Congress,\u201d Jeffries said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats are daring Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) to make good on his pledge to remove two members from the House Intelligence Committee. Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) formally recommended \u201ceminently qualified\u201d Reps. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Eric Swalwell (D-CA) continue serving on the panel with a letter dated Saturday. The missive is addressed to McCarthy, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1588,"featured_media":1820742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[16150,4009,7526,16149,3663,8636,5159,6741],"class_list":["post-1820739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-defiance","tag-democratic","tag-intel","tag-leader-picks","tag-mccarthy","tag-panel","tag-schiff","tag-swalwell"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1820739","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\/1588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1820739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1820739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1820742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1820739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1820739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1820739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}