House rejects GOP resolution to boot Swalwell from Intel panel
By Cristina Marcos - 03/18/21 08:59 PM EDT The House on Thursday rejected a Republican effort to remove Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) from the Intelligence Committee over his past ties to a suspected Chinese spy.
Lawmakers voted mostly along party lines 218-200, with three Republicans voting “present,†to table a resolution that House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) introduced earlier in the day after Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) re-appointed Swalwell to the House Intelligence Committee last week.
Republicans have seized on an Axios report from late last year that Swalwell had a connection to Christine Fang, an alleged Chinese spy who helped raise funds for the California Democrat's 2014 reelection campaign and helped place an intern in his office.
Swalwell, who briefly ran for president in 2019 and served as one of the House prosecutors during the Senate impeachment trial of former President Trump last month, was among multiple up-and-coming politicians that Fang targeted.
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