House scuttles GOP attempt to boot Swalwell from intel panel

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Please try again later {{ /verifyErrors }} The House has dismissed a Republican attempt to remove California Rep. Eric Swalwell from the House intelligence panel over his contact more than six years ago with a suspected Chinese spy who targeted politicians in the United States. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff said in a letter to colleagues on Thursday that Swalwell is a “trusted member of our committee” and that he had “acted fully in accordance with his responsibilities” after the 2015 counterintelligence briefing. Schiff said that Republican leaders, including then-House Speaker John Boehner and the then-chairman of the intelligence panel, Republican Rep. Devin Nunes were briefed on the situation at the time and “expressed no opposition to his continued service on the committee.” McCarthy requested his own briefing about Swalwell after the Axios report in December. “And I think people see through that.” The vote comes after the House voted to strip Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene off both her committees last month, an unprecedented punishment that Democrats said she’d earned by spreading hateful and violent conspiracy theories.