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Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi objected when CNN anchor Chris Wallace asked if she’d “opened the door” for Republicans to kick Democratic members of Congress Adam Schiff, Eric Swalwell, and Ilhan Omar off of their committees...... WALLACE: Didn’t you open the door to this? PELOSI: No, we set a precedent which I hope they will follow. If they have members, as they did, who threatened the security of our members on the committee or a danger to our members, threatening them, then they will go off the committee. So if they have that accusation about any of our...

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is seeking to become House Speaker next year. He's promised to remove Rep. Adam Schiff and two other Democrats from their committees if elected. Schiff has called him a "very weak leader." Rep. Adam Schiff criticized House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy for vowing to remove three Democrats from their committee assignments if elected speaker. McCarthy has his sights set on removing Rep. Ilhan Omar, who is on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Reps. Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell, who are on the House Intelligence Committee, from their assignments, according to USA Today. "I'll keep...

The mainstream media has been hyper-focused on previously little-known House Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene after old videos surfaced of her allegedly promoting conspiracy theories. Few, however, have spent equal time and energy on her statement yesterday denouncing those past views and her 20 minute speech earlier today explaining more about who she is and why she is passionate about being an elected official. At the end of her speech, which covered a variety of topics, she warned Christians not to be lukewarm and to share the Gospel “with everyone.” You can see that full speech [At Link]:

House Republicans are facing a brain drain of historic proportions atop their committees — as many as half of their chairmen could be forced to step down next year, thanks to a 20-year-old rule. The shakeup is due mostly to the GOP’s self-imposed limit, adopted in 1994, on how long a Republican congressman can chair a committee. It’s a policy that is widely popular within the Republican Conference, but is increasingly being questioned by members losing their gavels. The impending shuffle will do little to change the demographics of the Republican leadership structure — almost all of the white men...

Three House committees subpoenaed in connection with the bribery investigation into imprisoned former Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham and his associates reached an agreement with federal prosecutors Tuesday allowing the subpoenas to be withdrawn, a spokesman for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said. Under the agreement, five outstanding subpoenas will be withdrawn and the committees will voluntarily hand over documents in addition to material already provided, according to a statement released by Brendan Daly, a spokesman for Pelosi. Two committee staffers will appear March 1 before the grand jury in San Diego that has been considering evidence stemming from the Cunningham case,...

Texas would get its own seat on the House panel that hands out chairmanships and committee assignments under a proposal Speaker J. Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., outlined in a letter to his Republican colleagues yesterday. Last week, Texas elected 21 Republicans to the House, the most of any state. That included five new GOP seats won as a result of Majority Leader Tom DeLay's successful effort to redraw his home state's congressional districts. Under the proposed changes, Texas would join the 20-member California delegation and the 18-member Florida delegation as the only states with a guaranteed representative on the 28-member Republican...