Washington, D.C. February 9, 2023 – Today, Reps. Adam Schiff (D-California), Ilhan Omar (D- Minnesota), and Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-Florida) introduced legislation to prohibit schools that receive federal funding from requiring information regarding students’ menstrual cycles after Republican elected officials in several states proposed regulations that would require students to turn over their private medical data […]
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Congressman Adam Schiff: House Republicans Establish a Select Committee to Investigate Federal Investigations
Washington, D.C. January 10, 2023 – Congressman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) issued the following statement after House Republicans passed a resolution to establish a Select Subcommittee to investigate ongoing federal investigations: Today, House Republicans voted to form a select subcommittee to investigate deep state conspiracy theories. Make no mistake: This bogus committee is designed to […]
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Chairman Schiff: Statement on National Intelligence Estimate on Climate Change
Washington, D.C. October 21, 2021 – Today, Congressman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, released the following statement after the Intelligence Community released a National Intelligence Estimate on the threat of climate change: Climate change is an existential threat that will have a devastating impact on the health, economic […]
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Rep. Adam Schiff: A lack of political courage by one party alone is the biggest impediment to achieving our aspirations as a nation
Washington, DC, February 13, 2021 – Today, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) released the following statement: Early this week, and at the outset of the trial, my brilliant colleague and the lead House manager, Jamie Raskin, quoted from a Capitol Police officer who defended the Congress against the violent mob and failed insurrection on January 6th. After watching marauders […]
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Rep. Adam Schiff: Insurrection at the U.S. Capitol
Washington, DC, January 8, 2021 – Today, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) released the statement below following the insurrection at the United States Capitol: “Now that the dust has settled, all too literally, on the events at the Capitol on Wednesday, I wanted to share a few thoughts on what it was like to be there, what it means […]
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Chairman Adam Schiff: Statement on Solar Winds Hack
Washington, DC, December 14, 2020 – Today, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, released the following statement: Cyber-attacks, particularly from malign state-sponsored actors in Russia, China and Iran have grown only more sophisticated as the hacking arms race accelerates, but their goals remain the same – to […]
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Schiff, California Colleagues Urge Department of Defense to Continue Assisting State Efforts to Combat Wildfires
Washington D.C. December 3, 2020 – Today, Rep. Adam Schiff (CA-28) and 28 members of the California delegation sent a letter to Christopher Miller, Acting Secretary of the Department of Defense (DOD), requesting the department continue assisting California and other states in their efforts to combat wildfires. Specifically, the letter requests that the Department continue […]
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Chairman Schiff Statement on Bill Barr’s Appointment of a Special Counsel
Washington, DC, December 1, 2020 – Today, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, released the following statement: More than eighteen months after Bill Barr first appointed John Durham to ‘investigate the investigators’ as part of an effort to distract from the President’s Russia and Ukraine related misconduct, […]
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Chairman Adam Schiff: Statement on Trump’s Firing of CISA Director
Washington, DC, November 17, 2020 – Today, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, released the following statement: Throughout this election, the CISA and Director Krebs have worked diligently to safeguard our elections, provide vital support to state and local election officials, and inform the American people about […]
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Rep. Adam Schiff: We will once again be the force for freedom, prosperity, and democracy that the American people and the world need us to be
Washington, DC, November 7, 2020 – Today, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) issued the following statement: It is now clear that, after all of the votes are counted, on January 20, 2021, we will have a new President and Vice President, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Our fellow citizens came out in historic numbers and voted […]
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Chairman Schiff Statement on Senate Intelligence Committee Trump-Russia Report on Counterintelligence Vulnerabilities
Washington, DC, August 18, 2020 – Today, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, released the following statement: “The bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee report affirms what we have all known for years: the Trump campaign had a breathtaking number of contacts with Russians tied to the Kremlin – at the same time that the […]
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Chairman Schiff Sends Letter to Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman
Washington, DC, July 8, 2020 – Today, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, sent a letter to Lt. Colonel Alexander Vindman after he announced he would retire from the Army. The letter can be found here, and the full text can be found below Forty years ago, […]
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Adam Schiff: Crown Prince, Top Advisors Cleared of Wrongdoing in Khashoggi Murder by Saudi Court Despite Evidence
WASHINGTON, D.C. Dec. 23, 2019 – Today, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, released the following statement in response to the announcement by Saudi Arabia’s public prosecutor that five people have been sentenced to death in connection to the killing of U.S. resident and journalist Jamal Khashoggi. “The death sentence handed […]
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Joint Statement from Committee Chairs on Release of Ukraine Call Record
WASHINGTON, D.C. September 25, 2019 – Today, Rep. Adam Schiff, the Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Rep. Jerrold Nadler, the Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and Rep. Eliot L. Engel, the Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, […]
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Schiff Issues Subpoena for Whistleblower Complaint Unlawfully Withheld by Acting DNI from Intelligence Committees
Washington, Sept. 16, 2019 – Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, issued a subpoena to the Acting Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Joseph Maguire to compel the production of a whistleblower complaint that the Intelligence Community Inspector General’s (IC IG) determined to be credible and a matter […]
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House Intelligence Committee Requests Documents, Interviews on White House Efforts to Suppress Climate Change Testimony
Washington, DC, June 11, 2019 – Today, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, sent a letter to Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR) Assistant Secretary Ellen McCarthy to request documents and interviews regarding prepared written testimony of Dr. Rod Schoonover, a senior analyst in the Office of […]
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Chairman Schiff Response to Special Counsel Mueller’s Statements on Conclusion of Investigation
LOS ANGELES, CA, May 29, 2019 – Today, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, released the following statement: “First and foremost, I want to thank Robert Mueller for his lifetime of public service, not just as Special Counsel, but also as a Marine, at the Department of […]
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House Intelligence Committee Issues Subpoena for Counterintelligence and Foreign Intelligence Materials in Mueller Investigation
Washington, DC, May 8, 2019 – Today, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, issued a subpoena to Attorney General William P. Barr for documents and materials related Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, including all counterintelligence and foreign intelligence materials produced during the Special Counsel’s investigation, the full unredacted report, […]
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House Intelligence Committee Invites Special Counsel Mueller to Testify
The House Intelligence Committee has formally invited Special Counsel Mueller to testify on the counterintelligence investigation. After a two year investigation, the public deserves the facts, not Attorney General Barr’s political spin. pic.twitter.com/PWIXvl7MLv — Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) April 18, 2019
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Adam Schiff: At 70, NATO remains a crucial alliance. So why does Trump keep attacking it?
March 29, 2019 – Seventy years ago this week, President Harry Truman led the United States and 11 other nations in establishing the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, a defensive alliance to protect Western Europe against Soviet aggression. Since 1949, NATO has grown to include 29 member countries, becoming the world’s largest peacetime military alliance — […]