{"id":1825551,"date":"2023-01-26T18:34:54","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T23:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1825551"},"modified":"2023-01-26T18:35:21","modified_gmt":"2023-01-26T23:35:21","slug":"gaetz-takes-jab-at-schiff-with-pencil-act-reintroduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gaetz-takes-jab-at-schiff-with-pencil-act-reintroduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaetz Takes Jab At Schiff With \u2018PENCIL Act\u2019 Reintroduction"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fgaetz-takes-jab-at-schiff-with-pencil-act-reintroduction%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=1825551&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>U.S. Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/matt-gaetz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Matt Gaetz<\/a> (R-FL), reintroduced Thursday legislation titled the \u201cPENCIL Act\u201d That would mean that Adam Schiff (D-CA), a fellow congressman, is prohibited from handling classified information.<\/p>\n<p>Gaetz created the acronym resolution. \u201cPreventing Extreme Negligence with Classified Information Licenses,\u201d Former President Donald Trump, who was the first to call Schiff \u201clittle pencil neck\u201d During a rally held in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCongressman Adam Schiff led the effort for years to weaponize lies from the Clinton campaign and a corrupt Department of Justice to smear President Trump while destroying any trust the country had left in America\u2019s intelligence agencies,\u201d Gaetz told <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2023\/01\/26\/exclusive-matt-gaetz-pencil-act-adam-schiff\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Daily Caller<\/a>It was the first to receive the legislation text.<\/p>\n<p>Gaetz reintroducing the legislation comes two days after House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) formally booted two high-profile Democrats from the House Intelligence Committee \u2014 Schiff and fellow California Democrat Rep. Eric Swalwell.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSpeaker McCarthy kept his promise to remove Rep. Schiff from the Intelligence Committee, and with the PENCIL Resolution, we will express the sense of Congress that he should be barred from accessing any classified information at all,\u201d Gaetz added. \u201cHe can no longer be trusted by his colleagues in Congress or the American people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy has the unilateral power to remove members of the House Intelligence Committee from their position as speakers.<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy pledged to lift Schiff and Swalwell off the perches that they had held for many years. McCarthy has also spoken out about the possibility of taking Rep. Ilhan Omr (D-MN), off the Foreign Affairs Committee. But that would need to be voted on by the House floor.<\/p>\n<p>Schiff posted the TikTok app, owned by Chinese companies, after McCarthy removed McCarthy from the House Intelligence Committee. The speaker had pulled Schiff \u201cfor doing my job, for holding Trump accountable and standing up to the extreme MAGA Republicans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Schiff denied taking classified information while speaking with MSNBC\u2019s Andrea Mitchell, who asked if he had taken any records home while serving on the committee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is what\u2019s so astounding, I think, for all of us on the Intelligence Committee,\u201d Schiff <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/schiff-claims-he-never-took-classified-docs-home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>. \u201cI never take classified documents to my house.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know any reason why people would,\u201d Schiff was added.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Pompeo, a former Trump administration official, accused Schiff of leaking classified data after Swalwell and Schiff were removed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring my time as CIA director and secretary of state, I know that he leaked classified information that had been provided to him,\u201d Pompeo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/former-cia-director-accuses-schiff-of-leaking-classified-information\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>Addition: When the administration provided information Schiff and his staff, such documents \u201cended up in places it shouldn\u2019t have been with alarming regularity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>This report was contributed by Daniel Chaitin<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) reintroduced legislation Thursday titled the \u201cPENCIL Act\u201d that would call to ban fellow Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) from handling any classified information. Gaetz derived the resolution acronym, \u201cPreventing Extreme Negligence with Classified Information Licenses,\u201d from former President Donald Trump, who first called Schiff \u201clittle pencil neck\u201d during a rally in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":429,"featured_media":1825554,"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":[16603,5617,3624,8678,16636,5159,4259],"class_list":["post-1825551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-pencil","tag-act","tag-gaetz","tag-jab","tag-reintroduction","tag-schiff","tag-takes"],"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\/1825551","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\/429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1825551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1825554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1825551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1825551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1825551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}