US CAPITOL (VINnews) — Rockland Congressman Mike Lawler was one of 20 House Republicans who voted not to censure and fine Adam Schiff on Wednesday.
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In a tweet explaining his reasoning for going against the majority of his party, and siding with over 200 Democrats, Lawler wrote: “We will hold Adam Schiff accountable, but we must do so constitutionally.”
Lawler posted the following graphic accusing Schiff of ‘abusing his power and lying to the American people’, but saying that he believes in “due process”:
The resolution, which ultimately failed, called to censure and condemn Schiff for being the poster boy of the Russia collusion hoax, and falsely claiming numerous times there was circumstantial evidence against President Trump.
Trump was fully exonerated of the baseless allegations.
The resolution also called to censure Schiff for his role in leading an impeachment inquiry against Trump. During that inquiry, while sitting in the chamber, Schiff recited a made-up phone conversation between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelensky, pretending that Trump asked him to fabricate evidence against Joe Biden.
The resolution stated that the American taxpayer paid $32 million to fund the special counsel into Trump, based on Schiff’s “lies, misrepresentations, and abuses of sensitive information.”
It also called for Schiff to be fined $16 million if the Committee on Ethics found that Schiff “lied, made misrepresentations, and abused sensitive information.”
The chamber voted 225-196-7 for the unsuccessful resolution.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy removed Schiff from the Intelligence Committee for his egregious behavior.
My, my–We didn’t sign up for this, Mike. You’re allowing a dark scumbag to get away with his disgusting treasonous filth.
Election time , the sure-to-come askans will drag him to Jewish heimish kugel parties and hope we forget. RINOS are like pings in car motor. They won’t go away, they’ll only get worse and kill your car.
This was a political resolution to “get” Schiff, as much as we don’t like him. You guys don’t know Mike Lawler; I do. In terms of petty political point-scoring, the Congressman did the right thing. Also, it will not cost him votes–if anything, it’ll score him more Democratic votes in this mixed district. As for us Republicans, we’ll vote for him because he’s been sincerely supportive of our yeshivos (he was at our yeshivah’s dinner just a few weeks ago and made it perfectly clear where he stands), and I know for a fact that he does a lot behind the scenes for community members, as well as working to reduce anti-Semitism from our lovely Preserve Ramapo “friends” up here in Monsey.
dumb guy. if they would fine him people would think twice before making things up about the president
You elected a common sense politician, which is rare to find, and you can’t appreciate him.
Schiff lied and put our president and country thru heck. What’s wrong with you, Lawler ?
This will cost him many votes in Rockland County and maybe his reelection.
Rino out !
Bad choice whiff is evil
When historians will write about how our country self destructed, Lawler’s name will be there.
We citizens don’t know what back door deals are happening. Lawler is another one who thinks we’re bouncing fools.
Thank you for echoing my thoughts. This is true about all politicians , DA , FBI, etc. stop spending all day investigating and going after politicians. Let it be . Let Trump be and let hunter be
They are. Next week. They’re just taking out the fine. This was the right choice by Lawler.
He was not fully exonerated, that is a lie.
Read the report.
Trump said it was a ‘total exoneration’, which is another proof that it wasn’t.
wrong move but we still must support this hero who has defended our heilger yeshivos from the odious liars of yaffed/nyt whose miserable existence seems to be solely based on spreading hatred of the heilger gehobene yeshivos hakedoshos