GOP Rep Introduces Measure to Hit Schiff With $16 Million Fine

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) is facing another resolution aimed at punishing him for his comments about the FBI’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

On Tuesday, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) tweeted, “This will be a privileged motion to censure a $16 million dollar fine (half the cost of the Russia hoax investigation) meaning I WILL bring this vote to the house floor.”

“I will not back down from this and I, along with my Republican colleagues, look forward to holding Schiff ACCOUNTABLE for his actions,” she added.

Last week, Luna introduced a measure to expel Schiff from the House for the same reason, as IJR reported.

“Knowingly using your position on House Intel to push a lie that ripped apart our country, cost taxpayers millions of dollars, and authorized spying on a US President and then proceeding to double down on the lie within days of the Durham report coming out makes you unfit for office,” she wrote on Twitter.

Schiff responded to the two resolutions on Twitter, writing, “Last week a GOP Representative filed a motion to expel me from the U.S. House of Representatives. Just now that same representative filed a motion to censure and fine me—to the tune of $16 million. They aren’t getting the message: It will not work. I will not back down.”

The resolution comes after Special Counsel John Durham released his report detailing the conclusions of his investigation of the FBI’s Russia probe.

His report concluded the investigation was launched without a proper basis