June 21 (UPI) — The Republican-majority U.S. House on Wednesday voted to censure Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., over his role in Democrats’ past investigations into former President Donald Trump.
The effort was led by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., who attempted to push forward last week with a similar measure that was tabled.
In a 213-209 vote along party lines, the House approved the measure to “condemn and censure” Schiff over his leadership of the first impeachment inquiry on Trump in 2019.
While serving as chair of the House Intelligence Committee, Schiff alleged ties between Trump and Russia, and pushed for investigations.
When the vote results were in, Schiff was forced to stand on the House floor to be verbally rebuked by Speaker Kevin McCarthy, during which Democrats shouted chants of “Shame!” and “Disgrace!” in interruption.
Earlier, a Democrat-led measure to table the motion was rejected 218-208, which fell along party lines.
Luna has accused Schiff of lies and misrepresentations, arguing he should be fined $16 million. She later removed the fine mentioned in the previous resolution, nixing it from the latest version in order to move it forward.
“Adam Schiff abused his position as Chair of Intel to lie and lead America through a national nightmare with the fake Russia collusion narrative,” House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, a California Republican, tweeted Wednesday afternoon.
“As speaker, I removed him from the Intel Committee, and now the full House will vote to censure him and open an ethics investigation.”
Schiff last week dismissed the attempt to condemn and censure him.
“I think it says that Trump and his MAGA supporters view me as a threat,” Schiff said of the initial resolution.
“There’s a reason they singled me out — they think I was effective in holding them accountable. And they won’t stop me.”