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In other news: today is markup day for the articles of impeachment for President Donald Trump. Live tweet kicks off tonight at 7PM ET.
#AbuseOfPower #ObstructionOfCongress

A markup FYI is when a bill or resolution - in this case, this res 🔽 - is debated, amendments proposed/considered in a sort of legislative drafting tug of war. Because Dems have cmte majority, I dont anticipate many proposed GOP changes getting through.
documentcloud.org/documents/6572…

Tonight's hearing is a bit unusual in that it will be broken up over two days (It happens, just not often). Tonight's hearing starts at 7PM, so lawmakers will likely deliver speeches, get into a bit of debate and then save the meat of the "marking up" for the Thursday 9AM session

But I suppose you won't know unless you tune in.😀And I might know a gal who can help.

Story coming up with my colleague @KlasfeldReports.

@KlasfeldReports NEW: 45 years ago, Republicans and Democrats on the House Judiciary Cmte voted to approve articles of impeachment against Richard Nixon. Tonight, a new set of players and a much different mood hangs over Washington as Trump's articles are finalized.
courthousenews.com/tensions-sure-…

@KlasfeldReports Ken Hughes (@FatalPolitics), an expert on Watergate with the University of Virginia’s Miller Center, has spent time recently reviewing decades-old remarks from members of the 1974 committee.
History, as it often does, has repeated itself, Hughes noted in a recent interview.

"Republicans in 1974 called the impeachment inquiry a witch hunt and a kangaroo court. They complained their witnesses were not being called, that hearings were held in closed doors in exec. session and that the pres. was the victim of selective leaks. That much hasn’t changed.”

But congressional Republicans of yore, like the 1974 committee’s ranking Republican member Edward Hutchinson, were willing to “stand up for the constitutional role of Congress,” Hughes said.

Hutchinson urged members to understand that a pres. couldn't use exec. privilege to withhold witnesses or docs. The committee’s own R counsel at the time, Albert Jenner, agreed w/Hutchinson & warned the cmte that Nixon's refusal to comply would be the basis for an article of imp.

Hutchinson would be the equivalent on the committee today to Representative Doug Collins, the Republican ranking member who has put forward a staunch defense, top to bottom, of Trump’s conduct with Ukraine and the president’s refusal to submit to congressional oversight.

Read our story in full for more: courthousenews.com/tensions-sure-…
cc: @KlasfeldReports
@CourthouseNews

And my thanks to @FatalPolitics for speaking with me for this story.