Kevin McCarthy says he'll strip top Democrats of committee assignments if GOP takes control of House

Kevin McCarthy.
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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) is threatening to remove several prominent Democratic lawmakers from their committee assignments should Republicans take control of the chamber in the midterm elections, a move that Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) said would be "purely for retaliation reasons."

McCarthy complained to Breitbart on Monday that Democrats "are picking and choosing who could be on a committee. Never in the history have you had the majority tell the minority who could be on committee." If able, McCarthy said he would remove Swalwell and Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) from the House Intelligence Committee and Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) from the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia is night editor for TheWeek.com. Her writing and reporting has appeared in Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, The New York Times, The Book of Jezebel, and other publications. A Southern California native, Catherine is a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.