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Resolution to Censure Schiff Returns to House with a Crucial Tweak

The House motion to censure Rep. Adam Schiff just got a second chance.


A week ago, the California Democrat dodged receiving a public rebuke from his colleagues because a score of Republicans voted with Democrats to table the resolution, but now the wannabe senator from Southern California is going to face judgment again.

And with the numbers adding up against him, it couldn’t happen to a nastier guy.

Schiff is the former chairman of the House Intelligence Committee who spent most of 2017 to 2020 repeatedly abusing his position to lie to the American people about supposed evidence in the “Russia collusion” hoax against then-President Donald Trump.

His reputation, and record, of dishonesty were so established that when Republicans took over the House after the 2022 midterms, one of the first things new House Speaker Kevin McCarthy did was strip Schiff of even being a member of the committee he once chaired. (McCarthy also kicked Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell off the Intelligence Committee, but there were some other … more exotic reasons for that.)

Last week, a resolution to censure Schiff was tabled on a vote of 225 to 196, with seven members abstaining.

According to the House roll call, the vote on tabling the motion included 20 Republicans in support, two who voted “present” and three who didn’t vote. If all the Republicans who either supported the motion to table the resolution, voted “present” or cast a vote to support the resolution in a new form, it would pass the House with a 221-vote majority, more than 50 percent of the House’s 435 seats

And pass it might.

For most of the Republicans who voted to table the resolution, the sticking point was that the language of the resolution text included fining Schiff $16 million, or half the estimated cost of the special counsel investigation into the “Russia collusion” hoax.

The Washington Times reported Monday that the resolution’s sponsor, Florida Republican Anna Paulina Luna, is planning to introduce the resolution again without the fine.
graphite · 61-69, M
Republiwimps always looking to "break bread with our friends across the aisle." Dimwits
DavidT8899 · 22-25, M
@graphite But I think that just might be starting to change.Granted,the Repubs should have learned that lesson a long time ago......
graphite · 61-69, M
@DavidT8899 There's a few, like Marjory Taylor Greene, who know the score: Democrats want anyone who dares oppose them imprisoned.
DavidT8899 · 22-25, M
@graphite Yes,but I was thinking more along the lines of Kevin McCarthy.Hes being aggressive but in a way that doesn't turn off independents.I respect Greene,but sometimes she acts in a way that defeats her purpose.Acting as crazy as Adam Schiff ,etc is NOT the way to set things right.
akindheart · 61-69, F
he needs to be punished. as for the RINOS who didn't vote, there election time will come. Schiff is one POS
DavidT8899 · 22-25, M
@akindheart But dispite that,the fine,as morally justifiable as it was in his particular case,was problematic on a legal level.Ive heard they are reintroducing the motion without it.
akindheart · 61-69, F
@DavidT8899 i think it has something to do with him paying half of the costs of a trial? that they are excluding.
DavidT8899 · 22-25, M
@akindheart As they should.Schiff deserves it,but it raises Constitutional concerns.But hopefully the censure itself will go through,but he should be expelled.
HoraceGreenley · 56-60, M
A lying sack of shit Shifty Schiff is
HoraceGreenley · 56-60, M
@SomeLikeItHot
Deflection from Pedo Joe.
@HoraceGreenley
No indictment on Joe…ever maga boy!
Budwick · 70-79, M
@SomeLikeItHot [quote]This 13 year old girl[/quote]

Is that the FBI description?
Don't be CNN and make shit up.
That's a huge fine and I'm sure the movers' point can be made without it.
DavidT8899 · 22-25, M
@SomeLikeItHot Whether I have voted in an election is immaterial to being able to see basic truth.Schiff did NOTHING BUT lie during his time on that committee!
@DavidT8899
Baby deplorables growing up.
is there anything more outright frightening?
DavidT8899 · 22-25, M
@SomeLikeItHot For one thing,people such as yourself.But at any rate,let's end this here.Ive wasted enough time with the likes of you.
Spotpot · 41-45, M
He exposed Trump and now we know he was right all the time.
@trollslayer Exposing what?
Budwick · 70-79, M
@Spotpot [quote]He exposed Trump and now we know he was right all the time.
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DavidT8899 · 22-25, M
@Budwick No,he's just willfully stupid.
What excuse will 20 rinoshits use this time..
🍿
DavidT8899 · 22-25, M
@TheOneyouwerewarnedabout It's possible,but let's wait and see.
@DavidT8899 c’mon man, it’s the uniparty.
They not gunna punish they guy who fired all their bullets.
He’s due for a big kick back ..
can you say.. book deal
DavidT8899 · 22-25, M
Musicman · 61-69, M
The Democrats need to be held accountable. This free ride crap has to stop!
DavidT8899 · 22-25, M
Let's hope it passes.Schiff deserves it,and much worse.
If Dems want to overlook those years of Russia Gate, we can't change that.
Obviously the lies originated with Hillary, and drowned out all the real political news Americans made for three years.
Even Rachel Maddow kept Russia Gate in front - darkening the public view of everything else.
If this is what Americans want, we can't stop it

It's the same kind of focus we used in Vietnam and Korea, making the real news a far out weirdo concern
As a weirdo I know - lies, lies and only lies will occupy the place where politics and a moral compass should have been in the USA.
Any minute of any day that America can collapse like a house of cards and reveal the actual liars that we are, killing the planet.
4meAndyou · F
No one should hold their breath.
DavidT8899 · 22-25, M
@4meAndyou Let's see first.The House Republicans have actually been pretty effective so far.
4meAndyou · F
@DavidT8899 They are largely made up of UniParty Rinos...so don't count your chickens.
DavidT8899 · 22-25, M
@4meAndyou I realize that there's no guarantee,and if they don't follow through the way they should,I'll be the first to condemn them.But Kevin McCarthy has been a pretty effective leader in terms of actual follow-through-at least more than any speaker has been for awhile-so I'm going to wait and see.
SW-User
Desperation😂 Shouldn't the House at least Pretend to run the country instead?
DavidT8899 · 22-25, M
@SW-User Hope you can maintain your facetious attitude when "your side"ends up on the other side of that particular coin.When it happens,I'll give you a preview of your response:"Ohhh,this is SOOOO unfair,what an abuse of power......"
SW-User
@DavidT8899 It won't happen because "my side" are not crooks like Trump.
DavidT8899 · 22-25, M
@SW-User We shall just have to see.
Briggett · T
Do like the republican did before the last election. Use the same platform and play book. Two can play the game without any difficulties, after all they set the rules and the standards of the game.
trollslayer · 46-50, M
THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE FACING THE USA TODAY!
trollslayer · 46-50, M
@DavidT8899 Agreed. That is why Trump was indicted.
DavidT8899 · 22-25, M
@trollslayer No,he was indicted as a means of "getting him off the board";when Bill Clinton refused to part with classified documents after the end of his last term,the case was taken to the Supreme Court and it was ruled that the President -even an outgoing one-has the sole and unilateral power to make that determination.I suppose that changes when the Presidents name is Trump.Go figure.And remember the joke that the Russiagate "investigation"was revealed to be,as well as the mountain of what appears to be very real evidence of Joe Biden accepted bribes for favors that is still being slow-walked by the F.B.I and ignored by the mainstream media.And I point this out as someone who hopes that Trump doesn't win the Republican nomination.
trollslayer · 46-50, M
@DavidT8899 https://www.politifact.com/article/2023/jun/12/why-the-bill-clinton-sock-drawer-case-is-not-compa/. The rest of your claims are not worth bothering with.
Schitt shouldn't be censured, the dumb fuck needs to be expelled.
Spotpot · 41-45, M
@NativePortlander1970 Perhaps you mean Trump.
akindheart · 61-69, F

 
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