……The censure resolution against Schiff, the former chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, was approved by a vote of 213-209 with six lawmakers opting to vote “present.”
Reps. Michael Guest (R-Miss.), David Joyce (R-Ohio), Andrew Garbarino (R-NY), John Rutherford (R-Fla.) and Michelle Fischbach (R-Minn.) — all members of the House Ethics Committee — voted present, as did Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.).
An initial resolution to censure Schiff failed 225-196 last week, with 20 Republicans voting to kill the effort.
That resolution featured a provision to fine Schiff $16 million, half of the money taxpayers doled out for special counsel Robert Mueller’s collusion probe, according to Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.), who sponsored both bills.
The resolution voted on Wednesday scrapped the fine and made other modifications to win over members of the House like Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), who opposed the initial version.
……Schiff served as a manager during the first impeachment proceedings against Trump, which went to trial in the Senate in 2020.
In 2017, the California congressman read portions of the now-discredited Steele dossier into the Congressional Record, and contended as late as 2019 that there was “ample evidence of collusion in plain sight.”
Schiff was removed from the Intelligence Committee in January.
Luna’s censure resolution came against the backdrop of special counsel John Durham’s release last month of his report on the FBI’s Russia investigation, dubbed “Crossfire Hurricane.”
The report found that “neither U.S. law enforcement nor the intelligence community appears to have possessed any actual evidence of collusion in their holdings at the commencement of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation.”
Durham testified publicly before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday about flaws he found in the Trump-Russia inquiry.
The House Dems threw tantrums. Tough shit. Dems are getting a taste of accountability for a change.
Where were the arrests?
These unruly Democrats broke several laws—disorderly conduct, civil disorder, using loud language in the Capitol—and I’m often told NO ONE is above the law. https://t.co/eJHwvkLY0p pic.twitter.com/JZMf2O72ae
— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) June 22, 2023
Adam Schiff should be charged with the illegal subpoena of phone records, lying to Congress about the “whistleblower” and abuse of power. Schiff met with a Chinese Communist Party official previously responsible for spearheading the regime’s foreign influence operations on a visit to Washington, D.C. sponsored by the China-United States Exchange Foundation.
He has lengthy connections to corrupt socialist billionaire George Soros. He fabricated the transcript of a 2019 phone call between former President Donald Trump and Ukraine’s president, and doctored text messages between Mark Meadows and Rep. Jim Jordan.
He lied repeatedly to promote the Trump-Russia “collusion” hoax.
The 6 Jan ‘committee’ was unconstitutional leftwing partisan hackery. That includes RINOs Lynn Cheney and Adam Kinzinger.
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