The House on Thursday launched a Republican bid to rep. Eric Swalwell
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Lawmakers mostly voted along party lines 218-200, with three Republicans voting “present” to pass a resolution passing the House of Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy
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Republicans seized on a report by Axios late last year that Swalwell had an affair with Christine Fang, a suspected Chinese spy who helped raise funds for the California Democratic re-election campaign in 2014 and helped ‘ to place an intern in his office.
Swalwell, who briefly ran for president in 2019 and served as one of the House Prosecutors during the Senate trial against former President Trump
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Swalwell was warned by federal investigators around 2015 about Fang’s efforts to gain proximity to U.S. politicians, which U.S. officials said were intended to gather political intelligence and influence lawmakers on issues related to China. Officials do not believe Fang received or passed on classified information.
Swalwell said he immediately severed ties with Fang and provided information about her to the FBI.
Earlier Thursday, Swalwell called McCarthy’s resolution “the new McCarthyism”.
“Meet the new McCarthyism. Many sentences in resolution read ‘Swalwell did not deny …’, but fails to include multiple statements from the FBI on ‘no wrongdoing’ and has done nothing but ‘get along’ “All this to dismiss @ GOPLeader’s support for QAnon,” Swalwell tweeted.
McCarthy had earlier said that “there is no place for QAnon in the Republican Party”, but the Democrats tried to commit him to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene
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McCarthy argued that Swalwell’s earlier connection to the alleged spy would make it difficult for Swalwell to obtain a security clearance in the private sector and asked about close contact with a foreign citizen in the past seven years and suggested that the information of an information session further strengthens his case. ‘[Pelosi has] has 200 other members who can serve on the committee, and I think the only criteria anyone has to meet from the beginning is that you have a security license in the private sector? “If you can not meet the bar, you will not be able to meet a bar to serve on the Intel committee,” McCarthy said at a Capitol press conference.
Home Information Committee Chair Adam Schiff
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“It’s disturbing that Kevin McCarthy is trying to use classified counter-intelligence briefings as a political hug, and using that to smear a colleague in the house,” Schiff said.