And we certainly want to hear from manu and our colleagues who walk these halls every day. My understanding is its not going to happen right away. In fact, manu, let me go to you. I want to tell you this text that im getting is that youre probably hearing it from members who are coming off the floor right now. That manu, youre probably hearing from members saying that the jordan folks are very much lobbying many in the republican conference to hold off and not vote right now to empower Patrick Mchenry. So what is likely going to happen, and you telegraphed this earlier, is that once this vote is gavelled closed, theyre going to go back and talk again like they have done after every one of these, and that david joyce of ohio is going to try to make the case for why its time to move on for move on from jim jordan, and talk about giving Patrick Mchenry the functions of the United States government done at least in the short term. What are you hearing . Reporter yeah, i think we can expect
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
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essence it was dilatory. i ve never heard the minority called dilatordilatory. on the first day the request had been made. the minority is entitled to one additional day of related hearings at which to call their own witnesses if a majority of the minority members make their demand before the committee hearing has been gavelled closed. i believe mr. collins invoked that at the hearing. statements posted on the rules majority website in a document entitled, quote, house rules which govern the committee hearing process, unquote, based on review of the hearing video the minority properly presented their request to chairman nadler before the original hearing concluded. are you familiar with a memo written by mr. iran rraskin,