Ilhan Omar will not be kicked off Foreign Affairs Committee, chairman says

The House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman said he won’t remove Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., from the panel over comments that have been criticized as anti-Semitic, despite Republican calls for her ouster. “I don’t know that that would do anything except exacerbate the situation even more,” Rep. Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., told CNN, saying that he wasn’t even considering booting the freshman lawmaker from the committee. He said the decision would be up to House leadership, not him.