“As Chair of the House Intelligence Committee, Adam Schiff launched an all-out political campaign built on baseless distortions against a sitting U.S. president at the expense of every single citizen in this country and the honor of the House of Representatives,” she said. “With access to sensitive information unavailable to most members of Congress and certainly not accessible to the American people, Schiff abused his privileges, claiming to know the truth while leaving Americans in the dark about this web of lies.”
Before the vote, Luna told reporters she expected Republicans to reject the motion to table and said she was “fairly confident” the measure would be adopted.
“I’m not on Ethics but I think that they have a good start," she said, citing the work of special counsel John Durham, who investigated the FBI's handling of allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 election to help Trump.
Rep. Tom McClintock, who opposed the version of the resolution that was considered last week, said he did so “not to defend Mr. Schiff’s lies, but to defend the process that exposed those lies.”
“We must never punish speech in this House, only acts,” he said. “This new version removes the fine and it focuses instead on specific acts, most particularly the abuse of his position as Intelligence chairman by implying he had access to classified information that did not exist and his placement into the Congressional Record of the Steele Dossier, that he knew or should have known was false.”
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