Kevin McCarthy
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy of California points to the newly-installed sign as he arrives at his office after he was sworn in as speaker of the 118th Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on January 7, 2023.
  • House Speaker Kevin McCarthy rejected two democrats' bids to be on the intelligence committee.
  • McCarthy said that Reps. Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell were not fit to serve on the committee.
  • The two democrats served on it from 2015 to 2019 and headed up impeachment efforts against Trump.

House Speaker Rep. Kevin McCarthy announced that two prominent democrats would not be re-assigned with the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence in a bold partisan articulation of his new term.