House rules committee to meet Tuesday to set up impeachment vote
The House rules committee said this morning that it plans to meet on Tuesday to establish procedures for the full House of Representatives to follow when it considers two
The House rules committee said this morning that it plans to meet on Tuesday to establish procedures for the full House of Representatives to follow when it considers two
articles of impeachment against Donald Trump next week.
The panel’s meeting, set for 11am ET, sets the stage for a debate before the full House of Representatives that is likely to begin on the floor on Wednesday, Reuters writes.
The panel’s meeting, set for 11am ET, sets the stage for a debate before the full House of Representatives that is likely to begin on the floor on Wednesday, Reuters writes.
The committee generally sets the terms for House debates the day before action on the House floor. So, as mentioned earlier, so far the vote can be expected to take place on Wednesday, but that’s not set in stone.
Trump is charged with abuse of power and obstruction of Congress in the two articles of impeachment.
The first relates to his pressuring the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, by withholding crucial military aid and effectively dangling an Oval Office meeting in return for Ukraine publicly investigating Trump’s 2020 US
election Democratic rival Joe Biden, whose son Hunter previously sat on the board of a Ukrainian gas company despite not having specialist expertise in that industrial sector.
The second relates to Trump doing a very effective job at
The second relates to Trump doing a very effective job at
blocking most aides and administration officials from testifying to the impeachment inquiry in the House and defying subpoenas both to appear as witnesses and hand over documents and other evidence relating to the president’s allegedly corrupt dealings with Ukraine.
