GOP lawmaker introduces decision to expel Adam Schiff from Congress

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) on Wednesday unveiled a invoice that seeks to take away Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) from Congress over his claims of collusion between former President Donald Trump’s 2016 marketing campaign and Russia. 

“Knowingly utilizing your place on Home Intel to push a lie that ripped aside our nation, price taxpayers tens of millions of {dollars}, and approved spying on a US President after which continuing to double down on the lie inside days of the Durham report popping out makes you unfit for workplace,” Luna wrote in a tweet on Wednesday. “Ethics ought to examine.”

The freshman congresswoman included a photograph of the decision in her tweet. 

“Schiff lied to the American individuals. He used his place on Home Intel to push a lie that price American taxpayers tens of millions of {dollars}. He’s a dishonor to the Home of Representatives,” Luna said in a separate tweet from her official congressional account. 

Schiff, who led the Home Intelligence Committee’s investigation into Trump’s alleged ties with Russia, has lengthy asserted that there’s proof to help the collusion declare.

“I can actually say with confidence that there’s vital proof of collusion between the marketing campaign and Russia,” Schiff mentioned on March 13, 2018. 

“I believe there’s direct proof within the e-mails from the Russians by way of their middleman providing grime on Hillary Clinton as half of what’s described in writing because the Russian authorities effort to assist elect Donald Trump,” Schiff maintained a year later on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”

After the publication of Special Counsel John Durham’s report this week, which revealed that the FBI started its investigation of the Trump marketing campaign with none proof to help the collusion allegations, Schiff blasted the report as “flawed.”

“This was an investigation that began in a flawed method, it was carried out in a flawed method, and its conclusion is a flawed conclusion,” Schiff advised MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell on Tuesday.

Durham’s report famous {that a} college researcher felt he was threatened by a member of Schiff’s workers in November of 2018 after he refused to assist with the Home Intelligence Committee’s Trump-Russia probe. 

In January, a fellow member of Luna’s Sunshine State congressional delegation, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) introduced a measure that might limit Schiff’s entry to labeled data over his “baseless claims” of collusion between Trump’s 2016 marketing campaign and the Kremlin. 

The PENCIL Decision, an obvious nod to Trump’s derisive “Pencil-Neck” nickname for Schiff, requires the California Democrat to to not have entry to labeled data, for him to be investigated by the Home Ethics Committee, and to have feedback he made in Congress on Russian collusion and the Trump marketing campaign stricken from the report.

Home Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) refused to reappoint Schiff to the intelligence panel earlier this 12 months, citing an absence of “integrity” and his “misuse of this panel” throughout the Trump administration.

Earlier this 12 months, Schiff introduced his intentions to run for Senate in California, to interchange Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), who is not going to search re-election in 2024.