On the recordMarch 18, 2021
I have rarely heard such pernicious nonsense as we heard from the minority leader a few minutes ago. He accused Mr. Swalwell of having a Chinese spy or Chinese agent in his campaign. I understand he has introduced a resolution to remove Mr. Swalwell from his committee for that purpose. The fact is we all have hundreds of people in our campaigns--hundreds of people. Can we vouch for any of them? Do we know everybody's associations? Do we know whether someone in the campaign is a spy or a thief, or whatever? Do we do a police investigation, an FBI investigation of every member of our campaigns? That is absurd. And I think Mr. McCarthy ought to be ashamed because he is an experienced campaigner--he knows this--for raising these spurious allegations. ____________________
