Washington I mean he held the House Rules Committee is today setting the parameters for how much time each side gets to debate in the upcoming impeachment vote the rules committee is typically the last stop before a vote in the full House if the House votes to impeach the Senate will hold a trial in the New Year and N.P.R.'s Kelsey Snell reports Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is rejecting Democrats' request call witnesses calling it a strange request the majority leader is denying a request from Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer to reach an agreement on witnesses McConnell says it's not the Senate's job to build a case against the president that also shows his road it's their duty to investigate is their duty to made the very high bar for undoing a national election in a letter sent Sunday Schumer asked McConnell to agree to call for administration officials including former national security adviser John Bolton and acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney even if McConnell and Schumer do not come to an increment senators can still try to call witnesses once a trial has begun those requests would be subject to a simple majority vote Kelsey smell n.p.r. News Washington a federal judge has sentenced Trump's former deputy campaign chairman Rick gates to $45.00 days in jail plus 3 years probation and ordered him to pay a $20000.00 fine Gates had pleaded guilty to conspiracy money laundering and other charges he went on to provide what prosecutors say was extraordinary assistance on a number of cases that spun out of the Russia investigation the judge is allowing gates to serve his 45 days on weekends home construction in the u.s. Is at a 12 year high Here's N.P.R.'s Scott Horsley a survey by the National Association of Home Builders this week showed builders are as bullish as they've been in more than 2 decades and that's reflected in the pace of home building activity the Commerce Department says housing starts jumped more than 3 percent last month while applications for building permits surged their highest level since before the recession housing have been a drag on the economy for all. All of last year and the 1st half of this year but the industry's mounting a comeback low mortgage rates and a strong job market more fueling demand for housing mortgage rates have ticked up in recent weeks but are still more than a full percentage point below their recent peak near 5 percent last fall Scott Horsley n.p.r. News Washington a Pakistani court today sentenced former president Pervez Musharraf to death the treason case relates to the state of emergency Musharraf imposed in 2007 while he was still in power Musharraf was sentenced in absentia he's been out of the country since 2016 when he was allowed to leave on bail to seek medical treatment abroad his lawyer says he will appeal the sentencing Musharraf has been living in Dubai and is reportedly so ill that he is unlikely to travel home to face the sentence. I mean he held in Washington and you're listening to n.p.r. News support for n.p.r. 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News in Washington I'm Amy held the House Rules Committee hearing is under way to set the parameters of the full House vote on 2 articles of impeachment against President Trump that vote is expected as soon as tomorrow meantime Trump has indicated he supports the massive government spending plan hammered out by Congress and he intends to sign the $1.00 trillion dollars budget bill into law according to White House advisor Kellyanne Conway Congress still has to pass the legislation trumps signature would have hurt a partial government shutdown when funds run out this weekend a federal judge has sentenced Paul manna Forte's former right hand man brick gates to 45 days in jail as N.P.R.'s Brian Lucas reports Trump's former deputy campaign chairman became a key witness in the Moeller investigation in a brief statement to the court Rick Gates said he accepts full responsibility for his crimes and asked for leniency the decision rested with Judge Amy Berman Jackson in announcing her sentence Jackson said she struggled how to balance Gates his crimes with the vital information he provided investigators after pleading guilty and agreeing to cooperate with special counsel Robert Muller she acknowledged that Gates provided extraordinary assistance he met with investigators more than 50 times and testified for the government in 3 trials but she said his lies in years of criminal conduct can't be ignored she sentenced him to.