The prestigious House Intelligence Committee will now be short two Republican members come April, when Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) plans to retire from Congress, leaving it up to the party’s top leaders to decide who will take their place on the coveted committee.
Gallagher, who also chairs the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, will be the second Republican to leave the intelligence committee following his departure from the House on April 19. He follows Rep. Chris Stewart (R-UT), who retired from Congress in September last year due to his wife’s illness.
The decision on who will replace Gallagher and Stewart on the permanent select committee falls on the backs of the GOP Steering Committee, a panel of around 30 members comprised of top Republican leadership and elected
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