WASHINGTON — House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries renominated two California Democrats to serve on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, setting up a clash with Speaker Kevin McCarthy over committee assignments he has vowed to block.
In the last Congress, Rep. Adam B. Schiff, D-Calif., chaired the committee, and Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., led its Intelligence Modernization and Readiness Subcommittee, but McCarthy has long signaled that Schiff, Swalwell and Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) would lose their committee assignments if he became speaker.
His threat followed moves by his predecessor Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., Democrats and a few Republicans to strip Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., and Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., of their committee assignments when Democrats were in control.
