Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has appointed recently sworn-in Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) to a powerful committee role in the upper chamber.
According to Breitbart, Schumer appointed Schiff to the powerful Senate Judiciary Committee.
The committee oversees judicial appointments.
Schiff’s appointment will echo his time in the House, where he served on the House Judiciary Committee for years.
The California lawmaker also served on the California Senate Judiciary Committee while serving in the state Legislature.
Schiff received a number of plum appointments from Schumer, including a seat on the Judiciary; Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry; Environment and Public Works; and Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
The California Democrat released a statement on his X account following the assignments.
“I just received my Senate committee assignments: Judiciary, Agriculture, Small Business, and Environment & Public Works,” Schiff wrote.
“These assignments will allow me to help build a stronger economy, support our agriculture industry and small businesses, and protect our democracy and planet.”
I just received my Senate committee assignments: Judiciary, Agriculture, Small Business, and Environment & Public Works.
These assignments will allow me to help build a stronger economy, support our agriculture industry and small businesses, and protect our democracy and planet.
— Adam Schiff (@SenAdamSchiff) January 2, 2025
He also released a longer statement thanking Schumer for the assignments.
In his statement, Schiff said:
“I am grateful for the opportunity to serve on four committees of keen interest to all Californians.
“These assignments will allow me to work directly on the high cost of housing and other inflation issues, to support our critical agriculture industry, to address crime and public safety concerns, to support our small businesses, to attack fentanyl, to reform our broken immigration system, to preserve and protect our environment, to deliver vital water and transportation infrastructure, to protect our democracy, rights and our freedoms, and so much more.
“I’m committed to working across the aisle to deliver for Californians in the U.S. Senate and eager to get started.”
Social media users torched Schiff after he announced the news.
Many noted that Schiff repeatedly lied to the American people about having evidence linking President Donald Trump to Russia.
“You belong in jail,” one X user wrote.
Another X user wrote:
“Your actions on the Russia hoax should disqualify you from Judiciary.”
On June 21, 2023, the House of Representatives censured Schiff in a party-line vote on H.Res. 521.
The House investigated Schiff’s role as Chairman of the Intelligence Committee in promoting the conspiracy theory that Trump colluded with Russia in the 2016 presidential election.
The resolution established that Schiff misled the American public with “falsehoods, misrepresentations, and abuses of sensitive information” about the election.
He pushed the lies as part of the first impeachment of Trump.
Schiff has denied the allegations, however, calling them “defamatory.”
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