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McCarthy confirms Schiff, Swalwell, Omar will lose committee seats

by January 11, 2023
January 11, 2023
McCarthy confirms Schiff, Swalwell, Omar will lose committee seats

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., said he will keep his promise to block three headline-grabbing Democrats from their committee assignments in the 118th Congress.

McCarthy told Punchbowl News in an interview published Tuesday that he will act to prevent Reps. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., and Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., from sitting on the House Intelligence Committee. He will also seek to remove Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., from the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

‘Swalwell can’t get a security clearance in the private sector. I’m not going to give him a government security clearance,’ McCarthy said, echoing statements he made to Fox News in November. ‘Schiff has lied too many times to the American public. He should not be on Intel.’

As for Omar, McCarthy has previously argued she should be stripped of her committee seat for her outspoken criticism of Israel, which critics say is borderline antisemitic.  

‘I made all [three] cases before. It’s not like it’s anything new … Remember, this is what Nancy Pelosi, this is the type of Congress she wanted to have,’ he added. 

In the last Congress, then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., removed Reps Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., and Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., from their committees after separate controversies involving each lawmaker. 

The House voted in 2021 to oust Greene from the Committee on Education and Labor and the House Budget Committee after she made several conspiratorial posts on social media and shared a picture of herself holding a gun alongside images of Reps. Omar, Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. Greene has since renounced some of the conspiracy theories she once espoused. 

Gosar was censured by the House and stripped his committee assignments after posting a video of an animated cartoon that showed him killing Ocasio-Cortez and attacking President Biden. 

At each time, Republicans said Democrats were setting a dangerous precedent by kicking members of the minority off their committees. McCarthy had promised that if Republicans captured the House majority in 2022, Greene and Gosar would get their committee assignments back, and he would block the three Democrats from being seated on their committees.

Fox News reached out to McCarthy for comment, as well as the three Democrats in question, but did not immediately receive a response. Omar’s office pointed to a statement she made in November on McCarthy’s ‘threat.’ 

‘McCarthy’s effort to repeatedly single me out for scorn and hatred—including threatening to strip me from my committee—does nothing to address the issues our constituents deal with. It does nothing to address inflation, healthcare, or solve the climate crisis,’ Omar said in November. 

Swalwell tweeted that McCarthy was acting ‘purely out of vengeance.’ 

Chris Pandolfo is a writer for Fox News Digital. Send tips to chris.pandolfo@fox.com and follow him on Twitter @ChrisCPandolfo.

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