{"id":56127,"date":"2023-01-24T17:17:39","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T01:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=56127"},"modified":"2023-01-24T17:17:39","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T01:17:39","slug":"mccarthy-formally-blocks-schiff-swalwell-from-intel-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=56127","title":{"rendered":"McCarthy formally blocks Schiff, Swalwell from Intel panel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Tuesday formally rejected two Democrats \u2014\u00a0Reps. Adam Schiff (Calif.) and Eric Swalwell (Calif.) \u2014\u00a0from serving on the Intelligence Committee, escalating the two-year, tit-for-tat battle between the parties over who is qualified for certain positions on Capitol Hill.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)\u00a0had written to McCarthy on Saturday\u00a0asking that both Schiff and Swalwell be seated on the Intel panel, where membership assignments come solely at the discretion of the Speaker.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy rejected the request, saying Schiff and Swalwell\u2019s previous actions make them unfit to serve on a panel with jurisdiction over and access to sensitive issues of national security.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Tuesday&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56128,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56127\/revisions\/56128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}