Gives the house the sole power of impeachment and the power to determine its own rules. When president nixon, during the time he was going to be impeached, the chairman of the Rules Committee, chairman madden, actually spoke on house floor and announced there would be a rule governing how that proceeding would move forward. When the clinton articles of impeachment were brought forward, there was a unanimous consent request to kind of govern how we conducted ourselves. And im not sure how likely it would be that we would get a unanimous consent request. I would like to ask unanimous consent without objection to enter into the record a letter sent to the chairman of the Judiciary Committee signed by 70 republican members including kevin mccarthy, the republican leader, and basically, and let me read the key lines here, we will avail ourselves of every parliamentary tool available to us on the committee and house floor, in other words to try to delay and make this process as
impossible as
collins wrote seven letters to chairman nadler on the committee s consideration of impeachment. on november 12th he wrote regarding the manner in which the intelligence committee conducted their investigation. november 14th wrote chairman nadler demanding the same transparency and fairness that existed in prior impeachment inquiries be prioritized in the current inquiry. on november 18th, he wrote chairman nadler regarding the credibility of a particular witness and chairman schiff s coordination with certain witnesses to conceal basic and relevant facts. november 21st he wrote chairman nad her asking that he obtain all documents and documents from chairman schiff pursuant to house resolution 660 and accompanying procedures. on november 30th, the persistent mr. collins wrote chairman nadler asking for an expanded panel and a balanced composition of academic witnesses to opine
these articles of impeachment, isn t the minority hearing day now irrelevant? i believe it is and i believe that s the concern that many of us have who institutionally love this place. okay. mr. raskin, even if chairman nadler didn t believe chairman nadler didn t believe the house rules required him to schedule the minority hearing a day prior to marking up the articles of impeachment, as a member of judiciary and rules committee, wouldn t you agree it would have been better for the institution and the american people, to schedule the hearing, it s one day. thank you. again, i just learned of it the other day when mr. collins raised it. i looked at the rule and the rule does say that chair of the committee is not required to schedule the minority hearing as a condition precedent to the continuing course of legislative action. i, having been in the minority for my first term, i feel your exasperation about that, that it might not happen before the bill