I think you are mistaken. Impeachment comes from the House. Removal (conviction) comes from the Senate. Article II section IV of the Constitution uses the terms “impeachment” “removal” and “conviction”.
By long parliamentary practice, predating the Constitution, neither House is officially aware of what goes on in the other until it receives notice from the other House.
It’s good practice.
The liberal democrat lawyer Feldman affirmed my take that impeachment is initiated in the House (the sole body that can set it in motion) and is then disposed of in the Senate, that it’s a process, a two-step process that cannot be separated into only one part belonging to the House.
If the charges of impeachment never make it to the Senate, the impeachment was never delivered, it is as good as abandoned, it is left incomplete.
The President is therefore NOT impeached.
I believe there is something far more sinister taking place:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3802497/posts?page=45#45