Posted on 10/29/2019 8:54:20 AM PDT by jazusamo
Full title: Newt Gingrich: Pelosi announces Trump impeachment inquiry vote Here's what I am on the lookout for now
Senator Lindsey Graham has created a new reality for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Graham has written a powerful resolution which Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell joined in co-sponsoring. Together they have attracted 50 co-sponsors which means with Vice President Pence supporting them they would win a vote to dismiss any phony impeachment from the House that failed to meet a key standard of fairness.
The resolution:
calls on the House of Representatives, prior to proceeding any further with its impeachment investigation into President Trump, to vote to initiate a formal impeachment inquiry;
calls on the House of Representatives to provide President Trump, like every other American, with due process, to include the ability to confront his accusers, call witnesses on his behalf, and have a basic understanding of the accusations against him that would form any basis for impeachment; and
calls on the House of Representatives to provide members of the minority with the ability to participate fully in all proceedings and have equal authority to issue subpoenas and other compulsory process.
Faced with this new reality, Speaker Pelosi suddenly ended months of avoiding a vote on the impeachment process and announced today that the House would vote this week.
As a practical matter, the House Democrats had no choice but to bring the impeachment process to a vote. They were faced with a Trump administration that refused to cooperate with a secret investigation which lacked rules and authorization by the full House. They were also faced with a Senate that was prepared to reject a kangaroo court-style secret approach.
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I think, being so close to an election year for him, Mitch is gonna want to get lots of face time to boost his poll numbers for “having killed the impeachment”.
It will all seem very tense for a while and then he’ll come out the hero even though he could just not even hear it or like you say, kill it fast.
Yes, they have enough to pass it now...they should do it, regardless of whatever noises are being made by Pelosi. With her, its all a setup and she has no intention of making this a legally accountable action.
Hey Pelosi this is not The Gong Show.
CatOwner, I think there is something fundamentally wrong with your FR handle. In my experience, you don’t own a cat. It owns you.
Just like Nancy "deemed" that O'Care passed the House and handed that sloppy mess off to the Senate.
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OpEd: "Deem & pass" forced Obamacare past democratic process
If supporters of government health care couldn't summon the votes necessary to pass health-care reform through the democratic process, they would just bypass the democratic process.
In the House, a process called "deem and pass" was legislative tricker to enact legislation that does not have majority backing. It meant the House would pass the 2,700-page health-care bill without ever actually voting for it. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said it all when she said, in the final days of the debate, "But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it."
Public outrage and the protests of both Republican and Democratic members compelled Speaker Pelosi to back away from the "deem and pass" strategy of passing the bill without actually voting on it. The ugly health-care debacle finally came to an end with final passage of the overhaul in the House on March 21, 2010. The minority party was completely excluded from the shaping of major reform legislation.
Source: Young Guns, by Reps. Ryan, Cantor & McCarthy, p. 97-99 , Sep 14, 2010
Our nation is founded upon the Rule of Law. Totalitarian countries are founded upon the Rule by Law.
Our nation is ruled by laws agreed upon by a process of approval by the Legislative and the Executive branches and adjudicated by the Judicial branch.
Communist and other Totalitarian countries are ruled by an all powerful Executive who creates law as needed to satisfy political interests.
Laws controlling speech and political activism are totalitarian. They adjudicate specifically against political opponents.
I agree!
May heaven help us if these Dems ever get the House, Senate and White House again.
Pelosi and ShifftyEyes are all about smoke and mirrors.
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