Posted on 10/31/2019 8:51:37 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Update: Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives secured enough votes on Thursday to pass legislation setting up the next steps in the fast-moving impeachment process involving Republican President Donald Trump.
The vote is the first formal test of support for the inquiry that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi launched on Sept. 24. The impeachment inquiry focuses on whether Trump pressured Ukraine into helping him in his 2020 re-election campaign, a charge the president denies.
Previous report:
WASHINGTON - U.S. lawmakers will cast the first vote on Thursday in the impeachment investigation of President Donald Trump as the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives takes up a measure that sets up the next steps in the fast-moving effort.
The vote will be the first formal test of support for the inquiry launched on Sept. 24. Democrats, who control 234 seats in the 435-seat chamber, need a simple majority to approve the resolution.
The measure calls for public hearings and the release of transcripts from closed-door proceedings. It also outlines what rights Republican lawmakers and Trump himself would have to participate as the process moves ahead.
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What “High Crime and/or Misdemeanor” are they accusing the President of? What did Trump do that is illegal? The Constitution is pretty specific on this.
This hearing was nothing more than fodder for their comrades in the media to be able to report this as “official”. It’s all a lie.
This impeachment is like a sentencing hearing where there has been no grand jury, no charges filed, no indictment, no arrest, no trial and no conviction. But we are going to punish the accused?
Anybody who still supports democrats is either too stupid to be part of a self governing republic or pure evil that promotes slavery.
Why is this in bloggers?
The house today personified bias corruption while totally ignoring the will of the people they were elected to REPRESENT.
The biggest lie:
“The vote is the first formal test of support for the inquiry that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi launched on Sept. 24.”
What was the vote count? Or was it a voice vote?
Okay, ask the mods to switch it to news.
Already did...
Wait. Doesn’t legislation mean that it has to pass the Senate and then get signed by Trump? Lol.
MSMLSD gang will tout about Trump’s impeachment even though he wasn’t.
President Ford was once asked; “What is an impeachable offense?”
He replied:
“An impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history.”
1776 = 2020
The donkeys are on thin ice and are close to causing a civil war.
Yes, all they did was set House rules. All an embarrassing joke/abuse on the constitution.
So it turns out this “impeachment” scam is all about the DC Swamp criminals trying to divert attention off the current AG investigation. No wonder they were all panicked by the call, they knew the noose was being slipped over their heads.
Lindsey Gramham all ready annouced this a sham vote to continue the current neo facist Kangaroo court. This is DOA at the go.
I’ve had a similar tag line.
Almost certainly this is what drives the dems irrationality and desperate acts.
the vote has not occurred yet.
It would mean that, if this were “legislation,” but it’s not. In the usually understood sense it isn’t a “measure,” either. It is a resolution. Honestly the persistent sloppiness in reporting drives me nuts.
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