Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) criticized Republicans’ bids to boot him and Reps. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) and Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) from their committee assignments while supporting far-right members in their own conference, telling CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday that “the hypocrisy just grabs you by the throat.”
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) formally removed Schiff and Swalwell from their seats on the House Intelligence Committee last week, the latest in an ongoing tit-for-tat battle with Democrats over committee assignments.
McCarthy had vowed to remove the lawmakers over Swalwell’s association with a Chinese spy and Schiff’s promotion of the Steele dossier. The move was a reprisal for the decision by Democrats and some Republicans in 2021 to remove Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) from their committees.
McCarthy previously vowed to remove Omar from her seat on the Foreign Affairs Committee over comments she has made about Israel that colleagues in both parties labeled anti-Semitic. The move is opposed by a group of House Republicans.
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