{"id":1953538,"date":"2023-06-21T20:07:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-22T00:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-votes-to-censure-adam-schiff-2\/"},"modified":"2023-06-21T20:08:02","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T00:08:02","slug":"house-votes-to-censure-adam-schiff-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-votes-to-censure-adam-schiff-2\/","title":{"rendered":"House censures Adam Schiff"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">8<\/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%2Fhouse-votes-to-censure-adam-schiff-2%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=1953538&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--><h2>The House Votes to Censure Rep. Adam Schiff for Misleading the Public<\/h2>\n<p>The Republican-led House on Wednesday voted to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/adam-schiff-faces-house-censure-vote-and-prospect-of-steep-fine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">formally<\/a> rebuke Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/adam-schiff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Adam Schiff<\/a> (D-CA) for playing up allegations of bad behavior by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> across multiple investigations into the former president.<\/p>\n<p>Passed by a 213-209 vote along party lines, the resolution reprimands Schiff for \u201cmisleading the American public and for conduct unbecoming of an elected Member of the House of Representatives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Democrats gathered on the House floor and chanted \u201cshame, shame\u201d as the vote got underway. They gave Schiff a round of applause when House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) called him to the well to read the censure.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8 BREAKING: The House has voted to censure Adam Schiff and he will now face an ethics investigation.  <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RpULQp85uI\">pic.twitter.com\/RpULQp85uI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bennyjohnson\/status\/1671653007824437254?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 21, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Schiff is now the <a href=\"https:\/\/history.house.gov\/Institution\/Discipline\/Expulsion-Censure-Reprimand\/#censure\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">25th member of the House<\/a> ever be censured, and the third this century.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/118\/bills\/hres521\/BILLS-118hres521ih.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">four-page resolution<\/a>, introduced by Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/meet-anna-paulina-luna-the-firebrand-conservative-who-wasnt-supposed-to-win\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anna Paulina Luna<\/a> (R-FL), accuses Schiff of abusing his position and telling falsehoods about the Russia investigation. Is also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-votes-to-censure-adam-schiff-2\/\" title=\"House censures Adam Schiff\">mentions issues related<\/a> to the Ukraine-focused impeachment inquiry against Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Once passed, the resolution told Schiff to report to the well of the House chamber to hear the censure and called on the House Ethics Committee to investigate his conduct.<\/p>\n<p>Six Republicans voted \u201cpresent.\u201d Five of them are members of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cruz-hawley-to-face-secretive-senate-ethics-committee-panel\/\" title=\"Cruz, Hawley To Face \u2018Secretive\u2019 Senate Ethics Committee Panel\">ethics panel<\/a>, a C-SPAN producer noted.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">6 House Republicans voted Present on censuring Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) <\/p>\n<p>5 are GOP members of the House Ethics Committee:<br \/>Chair Michael Guest (MS), David Joyce (OH), Andrew Garbarino (NY), John Rutherford (FL) and Michelle Fischbach (MN). Ken Buck (R-CO) also voted Present.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Craig Caplan (@CraigCaplan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CraigCaplan\/status\/1671653396158226433?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 21, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/meet-anna-paulina-luna-the-firebrand-conservative-who-wasnt-supposed-to-win\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Luna<\/a> reintroduced the resolution after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/house-rejects-schiff-censure-seeking-hefty-fine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">prior version of it was defeated<\/a> last week when 20 Republicans joined with a majority of Democrats to table it.<\/p>\n<p>A sticking point among GOP defectors last week was a clause that said Schiff should be fined $16 million, which is about<span class=\"gmail-Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/08\/02\/politics\/mueller-report-cost\/index.html#:~:text=The%20Mueller%20investigation%20cost%20a,figures%20from%20the%20Justice%20Department.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">half the cost<\/a> of<span class=\"gmail-Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>special counsel Robert Mueller\u2019s investigation into Russian election interference, if the House Ethics Committee found that he lied and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/adam-schiff-faces-house-censure-vote-and-prospect-of-steep-fine\/\" title=\"Schiff may be censured and fined by House.\">abused sensitive information<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/thomas-massie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Thomas Massie<\/a> (R-KY), one of the Republicans who voted against the censure last week, raised constitutionality concerns about the fine. The language was removed in the new version of the resolution.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans have long accused Schiff, who served as chairman of the committee for four years, of being a repeat liar, particularly because he insisted there was evidence of collusion. GOP frustration with Schiff led McCarthy (R-CA) to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/mccarthy-formally-kicks-schiff-and-swalwell-from-house-intel-integrity-matters-more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">kick him off the intelligence panel<\/a> earlier in January after Republicans took over control of the House.<\/p>\n<p>Schiff is now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/pelosi-endorses-schiff-for-senate-with-one-caveat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">running for the seat<\/a> held by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and has used the censure effort as a fundraising tool. He said he would wear the censure as a \u201cbadge of honor\u201d and defended his comments about Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMAGA Republicans are going after me because I dared to hold Donald Trump accountable. These efforts to intimidate me will not succeed. I will always defend our democracy,\u201d Schiff <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepAdamSchiff\/status\/1669086633516253185\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> in a tweet last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The GOP-controlled House voted 213-209 to censure Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) for exaggerating allegations against ex-President Trump in various investigations. The resolution accuses Schiff of misleading the public and behaving improperly as an elected official.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1588,"featured_media":1953539,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[5156,3966,3653,5159],"class_list":["post-1953538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-adam","tag-censures","tag-house","tag-schiff"],"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\/1953538","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=1953538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1953539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1953538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1953538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1953538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}