Hoyer calls on Ryan to remove Nunes after release of memo
Source: The Hill
BY JULIA MANCHESTER - 02/02/18 02:32 PM EST
Democratic House Whip Steny Hoyer (Md.) called on Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) to remove House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) on Friday after the release of a memo Nunes drafted alleging abuse of surveillance authorities at the Department of Justice.
"As Speaker, you have the authority to remove Chairman Nunes from his position, which at this time I believe is the only appropriate course of action," Hoyer wrote in a letter to Ryan.
"The Chairmans behavior has undermined the trust of this House and of the American people in his leadership of the Intelligence Committee and the Committees work. It has been condemned by FBI and Justice Department officials appointed to their posts by President Trump," he continued.
"Now is a moment to assert, in bipartisan fashion, Congresss status under our Constitution as a co-equal branch, one not subordinated to the will and whims of the President, no matter to which party that president belongs."
Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/house/372052-hoyer-calls-on-ryan-to-remove-nunes-after-release-of-memo
murielm99
(30,741 posts)Seriously. What is the point? Distraction?
BigmanPigman
(51,600 posts)Ryan is the one who should step down along with Nunes.
bucolic_frolic
(43,173 posts)How much taxpayer money - staff time - did Nunes use to write that partisan memo?
BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)Was there between Nunes staff and White House staff? Yet another criminal act.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,348 posts)Don't just remove Nunes "from his position"; remove him from the House and from civilized society. He and his co-conspirators should be in jail to protect society from the harm they intend to inflict and have inflicted.