McCarthy expected to keep 3 Democrats off House committees

[groundloop]

Source: ABC News

Speaker Kevin McCarthy and leading Republicans are expected to soon make good on a vow to keep three Democrats from seats on influential committees in the new House.

McCarthy's focus is Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar, who has served on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, as well as Reps. Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell, two California lawmakers who have served on the House Intelligence Committee.

"Speaker McCarthy confirms that Adam Schiff, Eric Swalwell, and Ilhan Omar are getting kicked off the Intel and Foreign Affairs Committees. Promises made. Promises kept!" Rep. Troy Nehls, a member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, tweeted on Tuesday.

McCarthy has long pledged to oust the three, citing objections to their behavior and the precedent of the previous House removing committee assignments for Republican Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Paul Gosar of Arizona.

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/mccarthy-expected-3-democrats-off-house-committees/story?id=96344389

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Moderators: I'm posting this as "news" since Troy Nehls has stated emphatically that these three Democrats will be kicked off of their committees. "Speaker McCarthy confirms that Adam Schiff, Eric Swalwell, and Ilhan Omar are getting kicked off the Intel and Foreign Affairs Committees. Promises made. Promises kept!" Rep. Troy Nehls, a member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, tweeted on Tuesday.

[Bev54]

1. If this happens, I am sure they will all find a place on other committees and here is the thing

the dem party is deep with very qualified people to take their places. This is pure revenge but it will not help them in any fashion.

[SouthernDem4ever]

2. They need to stuff the clown car with more clowns

Schiff, Swalwell and Omar don't have the outfits and Greene and Gosar won't give them a spare plastic red nose.

[Thomas Hurt]

3. Like school yard bullies, everything thing done to the corrupt fascists must be retaliated against

in like manner and more.

[C_U_L8R]

4. What chickenshits.

Their existence is ruled by their own cowardice.

[lapfog_1]

5. When Democrats regain the House

the "rules" adopted for the House should simply exclude all repukes from anything other than the House floor... give them zero opportunity to speak... only allow them to vote.

[onecaliberal]

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[Bayard]

6. So childish

They were mean to us! So they dump the smartest people in the room, who are probably just as glad not to have to deal with their antics.

Its just embarrassing to have these morons in Congress.

[BOSSHOG]

7. "Objections to their Behavior"

They told the truth and exposed us for the scum we are. We object. Gosh it’s a good thing for master speaker that those three are the only competent Dems in the house. Wink, wink.

[hibbing]

8. Talk about false equivalency n/t

[vlyons]

9. More time for them to ---

raise money and campaign for other Dems, go on MSM and tell the truth and ridicule assholes

[Martin68]

10. Fuck that!

[NoMoreRepugs]

11. Schiff, Swalwell and Omar - MTG & Gosar. Comparing a beach to a grain of sand.

[Ford_Prefect]

12. Four legs good. Two legs bad!

[truthisfreedom]

13. Best to simply ignore them

They don’t deserve a single moment of joy.

[Hassler]

14. They can use their free time to give speeches mocking

Speaker McCarthy, Gym Jordan, et al, and calling for votes to oust Charlie McCarthy. Eventually some in the GOPee will want him gone.

[Turbineguy]

17. Anybody with a functioning brain is at risk.

They'll probably put Screwy Louie Gohmert on the Intel committee.

At least Putin will be happy.

[Sneederbunk]

18. Gohmert no longer in House.

[Turbineguy]

19. Sorry.

He'll have to find some other idiot.

[BumRushDaShow]

24. Maybe one of the other "Goxxxx" loons

Paul Gosar!

[roamer65]

20. Can Schumer remove 3 Repuke senators in retaliation?

[DashOneBravo]

21. Dang

There goes any attempt to find the smoking gun we were promised by Rep Swalwell amd Schiff.

They were on television shows like 4.372 times talking about it.

My humor sorry.

[hvn_nbr_2]

22. The speaker can't do that on his own.

It took a vote of the house (and some Republicans supported) to remove the three Rs. Good luck getting all those Rs that won in Biden districts to support it. Heck in that fractious caucus, on any given day, there might be five for whom that's a crazy and Mephistophelean bridge too far.

[FBaggins]

25. Unfortunately, that's incorrect

There's a difference between standing committees and select committees. Note the January 6th committee.

[iemanja]

23. That sucks about Schiff and Swalwell

because they are so effective at their jobs. I'm not sure what their beef with Omar is. Perhaps her tweets or that she's Muslim?

[maxsolomon]

29. Omar doesn't back down.

Not sure why AOC is exempted from this petty revenge.

[bucolic_frolic]

26. Transparently pure political vengence without justification

MTG and Gosar are disruptors. Our Democrats have good minds and contribute to public policy.

McCarthy is a mental midget and has declared himself with these actions illegitimate.

[Omaha Steve]

27. kick

[PhylliPretzel]

28. McCarthy's Objection

to Rep. Omar serving on the Foreign Affairs Committee, I think, has to do w/ 1) She was born in Somalia, was displaced by war there, and immigrated to the USA. Repugs don't like "furriners."
2) She has the audacity to hold Israel accountable for its many human rights violations against the Palestinians. Repugs don't like that.