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
thank you, mr. chairman. in this document, chairman nadler wrote, quote, we cannot wait four years to vote mr. trump out of office so we must do everything we can to stop trump and his extreme agenda now, unquote. mr. raskin, on august 8th, chairman nadler stated with respect to the judiciary committee s hearing regarding the mueller report that, quote, this is a formal impeachment proceedings, but the unquote, but the house did not actually authorize impeachment he proceedings until the adoption of h.res 660. mr. chairman, was nadler correct on august 8th or when the house authorized them on october 31st?