McCarthy threatens to strip GOP members of committee assignments if they accept an offer from Pelosi to serve on 1/6 commission
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy on Wednesday issued a blanket threat during a meeting with freshmen members of his caucus that he would strip any Republican member of their committee assignments if they accept an offer from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to serve on the select committee to...
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Basically, after the House passed a commission to look into the January 6th insurrection, the House minority leader Kevin McCarthy has told all Republicans that, if they accept Nancy Pelosi's offer to serve on the select committee to investigate the insurrection, they will be stripped of all their other committee assignments.
Specifically, Liz Cheney has been named as one of the members of the committee by Nancy Pelosi, and will apparently be losing her other committee assignments in the process.
McCarthy claims that this isn't a threat, of course. To quote the article: "I'm not making any threats about committee assignments, but you know how Congress works," McCarthy said when asked why Cheney would lose her committee assignments over the appointment. "You get elected by your district and you get your committees from your conference ... I don't know in history where someone would go get their committee assignments from the Speaker and expect to have them from the conference as well."
