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
I believe these documents are also of great importance to making sure senators have the information necessary to make a fully informed decision this terribly weighty decision. The house has built a very strong case against the president. Maybe thats why Leader Mcconnell doesnt seem to want witnesses, at least not agree to them now. Maybe thats why the president is afraid because the house case is so strong that they dont want witnesses that might corroborate it. The evidence the house put together includes public testimony given under oath by numerous senior officials appointed by President Trump. These are trump appointees were calling, not some partisan democrat but some republican senators have said that while the charges are serious, they
havent seen enough evidence to make a decision. Thats one of the reasons ive proposed subpoenas for these witnesses and documents all directly relevant from officials who have yet to testify under oath during any stage of the house process. Senato
Hunter biden behind closed doors. And so now the huge irony is that as the process moves to the senate, when republicans are going to control the entire process, theyre saying even though our argument was that we were cheated and this is unfair in the house, now that we control it, we dont want witnesses and we dont want a trial. Unbelievable. Thank you so much, heidi. Let me go back to garrett on the floor. Whats happening now . That measure did not succeed . Reporter it wont succeed. Were waiting on a few more votes to be cast. Im watching a couple more tick off the board. We expect this will probably be the last of the procedural hurdles at this phase of the game. We expect the next thing to happen will be the debate on the actual rules setting the terms of debate for the Articles Of Impeachment. This will look like an actual debate when it gets started. You will see members start to hash out not just the Process Arguments that you heard from heidi, but also democrats will
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house voted to authorize the official impeachment investigation, in h. res 660, the process did not include the robust minority protections afforded the minority party in previous impeachment investigations. even more concerning, chairman nadler, chairman schiff, refused to comply with the very rules of the house in granting access to committee records for members and scheduling a minority hearing in a reasonable amount of time, thus preventing the american people from being equally represented in the process. refusing to allow members to access their own records, these are records of members of the house of representatives that they were not allowed to access these records obtained down in secret under armed guard in the intelligence committee, but it s required under section 2e, rule 11. they ve denied members the ability to do their job. the judiciary committee did not hear testimony from even one fact witness.
the distinguished chairman of the republicans congress for the unanimous consent request. i ask unanimous consent to amend h. res 767 for a manual call of the role so american people can see precisely who is supporting the impeachment of a duly elected president. members should be required to stand and identify themselves openly and on camera on the question of adoption of these articles of impeachment. our time has been yielded for the purpose of debate by the gentleman from massachusetts. does the gentleman from massachusetts yield for this unanimous cobb sent request? i do not. gentleman from massachusetts does not yelled, therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. gentleman from oklahoma. thank you, madam speaker. i yield to the gentleman from missouri, the distinguished secretary of the conference for