{"id":543262,"date":"2023-01-25T03:56:32","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T00:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/mccarthy-formally-blocks-schiff-swalwell-from-intel-panel\/"},"modified":"2023-01-25T03:56:32","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T00:56:32","slug":"mccarthy-formally-blocks-schiff-swalwell-from-intel-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/mccarthy-formally-blocks-schiff-swalwell-from-intel-panel\/","title":{"rendered":"#McCarthy formally blocks Schiff, Swalwell from Intel panel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a261d5960d81\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a261d5960d81\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/mccarthy-formally-blocks-schiff-swalwell-from-intel-panel\/#McCarthy_formally_blocks_Schiff_Swalwell_from_Intel_panel\" >McCarthy formally blocks Schiff, Swalwell from Intel panel<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"McCarthy_formally_blocks_Schiff_Swalwell_from_Intel_panel\"><\/span>McCarthy formally blocks Schiff, Swalwell from Intel panel<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/mccarthykevin_011223gn11_w.jpg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Tuesday formally rejected two Democrats \u2014\u00a0Reps. Adam Schiff (Calif.) and Eric Swalwell (Calif.) \u2014\u00a0from serving on the House Intelligence Committee, escalating the two-year tit-for-tat battle between the parties over who is qualified for certain positions on Capitol Hill.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) had written to McCarthy on Saturday\u00a0asking that both Schiff and Swalwell be seated on the Intel panel, where membership assignments come solely at the discretion of the Speaker.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>But McCarthy said Schiff\u2019s and Swalwell\u2019s previous actions make them unfit to serve on a panel with jurisdiction over and access to sensitive issues of national security.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn order to maintain a standard worthy of this committee\u2019s responsibilities, I am hereby rejecting the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ointments of Representative Adam Schiff and Representative Eric Swalwell to serve on the Intelligence Committee,\u201d he <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpeakerMcCarthy\/status\/1618047779422769154\">wrote in a letter<\/a> to Jeffries on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The move was no surprise.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Republicans have been up in arms over the issue since 2021, when Democrats staged votes to remove GOP Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (Ga.) and Paul Gosar (Ariz.) from their committees following revelations that they had promoted violence against some of their Democratic colleagues. The eviction votes came after McCarthy declined to punish either lawmaker internally within the GOP conference, which is typically where such disciplinary actions are meted out.<\/p>\n<p>Still, McCarthy on Tuesday denied that his decision regarding Schiff and Swalwell was retribution for Greene and Gosar.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not not anything political. This is not similar to what the Democrats did,\u201d McCarthy told reporters on Tuesday evening just outside his office in the Capitol.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Schiff, the former chairman of the Intelligence Committee, had led a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> of investigations into former President Trump, serving as the lead impeachment manager of Trump\u2019s first impeachment, which both heightened his national profile\u00a0and made him radioactive among Trump\u2019s supporters.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy has accused him of lying to the public about Trump\u2019s ties to Russia \u2014\u00a0a charge that Schiff has dismissed as political retribution.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis objection seems to be that I was the lead impeachment manager in Donald Trump\u2019s first impeachment and that we held him accountable for withholding hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid from Ukraine in order to try to extort that country into helping his political campaign,\u201d Schiff told reporters Tuesday night.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr3_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Schiff also noted that McCarthy\u2019s road to the Speakership was successful only after he secured the support of former critics, including Greene, charging that the process had left him beholden to those conservatives.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s just another body blow to the institution of Congress, that he\u2019s behaving this way, but it shows just how weak he is as a Speaker that he has to give in to the most extreme elements of his conference, in this case the Marjorie Taylor Greenes and Paul Gosars,\u201d Schiff said.<\/p>\n<p>The accusations surrounding Swalwell are of a different sort. The California Democrat was associated with a suspected Chinese spy who had fundraised for his 2014 campaign \u2014\u00a0a revelation that was not made public until 2020 \u2014\u00a0and McCarthy has said that a confidential FBI briefing on the episode has left him convinced that Swalwell is a national security risk.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr4_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cWhen Eric Swalwell would be in the private sector and can\u2019t get the security clearance there, we are not gonna provide him with the secrets to America,\u201d McCarthy told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy has also vowed to block Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) from sitting on the House Foreign Affairs Committee as a rebuke for previous comments she made that were critical of Israel and its supporters, some of which have sparked allegations of antisemitism. In 2019, the congresswoman \u2014\u00a0who is a Somali refugee \u2014\u00a0apologized after suggesting that wealthy Jews were buying congressional support for Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Omar\u2019s situation, however, is different from that of Schiff or Swalwell. While McCarthy has the unilateral authority to block appointments to the Intelligence Committee, the full House must ratify committee membership for the Foreign Affairs panel \u2014\u00a0meaning a majority of the chamber will have to vote to block the congresswoman from serving.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr5_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>That effort is already proving to be an uphill battle. Rep. Victoria Spartz (R-Ind.) announced Tuesday that she will not support keeping Omar off the Foreign Affairs committee, and Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) has expressed a coolness to the idea.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans can afford to lose only four votes in the narrowly split House amid united Democratic opposition, which means the party can afford only two more defectors to still block Omar. That number could shrink to one if Rep. Greg Steube (R-Fla.), who is recovering in Florida from a fall, misses the vote. The congressman on Monday said he will be \u201csidelined in Sarasota for several weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear when a vote to block Omar from the panel will come to the floor. The House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee is slated to meet this week and finish committee assignments, and Omar is expected to return to the Foreign Affairs Committee. The full chamber would then be tasked with ratifying the rosters.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr6_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Asked on Tuesday how confident he is that there will be enough support to block Omar from the Foreign Affairs panel, McCarthy told reporters that \u201cit would be odd to me that members would not support that based upon her comments against Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pressed on those character allegations Tuesday, Omar told reporters that \u201call of those have been addressed three years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Schiff, Swalwell and Omar issued a joint defense minutes after McCarthy sent his letter, tying the GOP leader to the right flank of his party.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr7_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s disappointing but not surprising that Kevin McCarthy has capitulated to the right wing of his caucus, undermining the integrity of the Congress, and harming our national security in the process,\u201d the trio said. \u201cHe struck a corrupt bargain in his desperate, and nearly failed, attempt to win the Speakership, a bargain that required political vengeance against the three of us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Updated at 8:26 p.m.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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