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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has vowed that if he becomes House Speaker, were the GOP to retake the lower congressional chamber in November, that Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Adam Schiff (D-CA), and Eric Swalwell (D-CA) would be stripped of committee assignments. “The Democrats have been creating a new thing where they’re picking and choosing who can be on committee,” McCarthy told Breitbart in an interview published Monday. “Never in the history have you had the majority tell the minority who can be on committee.” “If Eric Swalwell cannot get a security clearance in the private sector, there’s no reason...

Iraqi Commandos conduct clearing operations with U.S. soldiers from 1st Battalion, 184th Infantry Regiment during Operation Clean Sweep in south Baghdad, Oct. 28-29, 2005. More than 350 houses were searched and nearly 50 terror suspects were detained. U.S. Army photo by Spc. Dan Balda 'Clean Sweep' Captures Terror Suspects The goal of Operation Clean Sweep was to clear neighborhoods of terrorist activity. By U.S. Army Spc. Dan Balda 4th Brigade Combat Team BAGHDAD, Iraq, Nov. 18, 2005 — Iraqi and U.S. forces recently detained dozens of terror suspects during searches in south Baghdad in Operation Clean Sweep, a mission...

For the two Pennsylvania Supreme Court justices up for re-election this year, the foe is public perception, not a candidate of the opposition party. Justices Russell M. Nigro and Sandra Schultz Newman are fighting for new 10-year terms because of rising anger toward the court, stirred largely by a pay raise that state lawmakers gave themselves in the middle of the night last summer. (snip) "There is a serious disconnect in Pennsylvania between our elected officials" and the people, said Russ Diamond, chairman of PACleanSweep, a political action committee committed to ousting every incumbent in the Legislature. Citizen activists and...