S . Roo vote vote vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change their vote . Seeing none, the yeas are 52, the nays are 39. The nomination is confirmed. The clerk will report the next nomination. The Clerk Department of state, John Joseph Sullivan of maryland to be ambassador of the United States of america to the russian federation. The presiding officer the question is on the nomination. A senator i ask for the yeas and nays. The presiding officer is there a sufficient second . There appears to be. The clerk will call the roll. Vote vote vote vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or wishing to change their vote . Seeing none, the ayes are 70, the nays are 22, and the nomination is confirmed. Under the previous order, the motions to reconsider are considered made and laid upon the table, and the president will be immediately notified of the senates action. The clerk will report the next nomination.
A trial of the senate after the house of representatives indicted him on 2 charges. Well President Trump divides the impeachment process as an assault on america and his Republican Party. For only the 3rd time in u. S. History a president has been impeached following a heated debate the democratic controlled house of representatives voted to formally charge donald trump with abuse of power and obstruction of congress the yes our 230 the nays are 197 present is one article one is adopted. Well democrats and republicans made their case for more than 8 hours about whether trump violate the constitution it paves the way for a trial in the senate where a republican majority is expected to block trumps removal from office with todays illegal unconstitutional and partisan impeachment. They do nothing democrats and they are doing nothing all they want to do is focus on this what they could be doing are declaring their deep hatred and this thing for the american voter. This lawless partisan ple
The rules committee will come to order. We welcome back our two witnesses. At this time i am happy to yield to my distinguished i would like to yield to our colleague for some questions she may have. Without objection. Our witness. Without objection. Thank you. I just wanted to clarify one thing. We had a line of questioning from mr. Cole right before we broke and it had to do whether or not there had been subpoenas issued for Ranking Member nunes phone records and, you know, there seemed to be some confusion from our two witnesses here. But i recall the testimony that we had in judiciary which was that in fact no subpoenas had been issued for any member of congress or for any journalist that the Intel Committee has subpoenaed meta data, just call records, not actually phone taps, of four people who had been involved in this scheme to abuse the power of office and smear ambassador yovanovitch. After each of those people had been subpoenaed individually, so that was giuliani, sondland,
Following the house votes to impeach President Trump, House Speaker nancy pelosi joined by House Democratic leaders including Intelligence Committee chair adam schiff and judiciary Committee Chair jerry nadler holt held a news conference. The speaker was asked whether she would delay sending the articles of impeachment to the senate. This is a sad day that we had to introduce articles of impeachment. We have been legislating, investigating and litigating. To a, that came culmination on the floor of the house and the judiciary the guidance of Jerrold Nadler of new york and the Intelligence Community under adam schiff of california brought the articles of impeachment to the floor to a conclusion where they have passed. I thank them for their tremendous leadership. I think chairwoman Maxine Waters of california of the Financial Services committee and the chair of the ways and means committee, carolyn malone, chair of the government reform Oversight Committee and of course, adam schiff, th
You dont think that affects our National Security, if you think ukraine is our ally as i believe you do and i do . I just dont accept the premise of your premises of thoughts. All right. What value for ukraine do you see in the oval office visit that was being sought . Youd have to ask ukraine. Do you recognize that such a visit would send a strong message to russia sort of like lavrov being in the Oval Office Last week and the rest of the world that the United States supported ukraine and was ready to defend it against russian aggression. I think a better statement was when mr. Trump sent russian weapons to shoot down russian assets. That ignored the fact that the aid was withhold and hot war was going. All due respect were going in circles. I do not believe there was anything wrong for the reasons stated. And mr. Trump did more for the ukrainians in the hot war than was previously done. You know, ive heard that before. Im not going to elaborate. But i can assure you if they point as