This week, in a partisan political stunt, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy unilaterally stripped two of us — Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell — from our positions on the House Intelligence Committee, where the latter serves as ranking member. And the speaker is attempting to remove another one of us, Ilhan Omar, from the House Foreign Affairs Committee, despite opposition from within his own party.
Combined, Reps. Swalwell and Schiff have served on the Intelligence Committee for more than two decades. Both have a wealth of experience overseeing our intelligence agencies and both have investigated misconduct at the highest levels of our government. One of those investigations led to the impeachment of former President Donald Trump.
We will not dignify or amplify the flimsy pretexts McCarthy has given for removing us from our committees by repeating them here.
A survivor of civil conflict herself, Omar is the first African-born member to serve in the House, has sat on…
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