Constitution 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 mad n madden, actually spoke on the house floor and snouannounced t would be a rule on how that procedure would move forward. When clinton rules of impeachment were brought forward, there was unanimous request to kind of govern how we conducted ourselves. Im not sure how likely it would be that we would get a unanimous consent request. Id like to ask for unanimous consent without objection to enter into a record a letter written by the Judiciary Committee signed by seven people, including kevin mccarthy, the republican leader. The key line here is we will avail ourselves of every parliamentary tool available to us to highlight your inaction. Translated it means to try and delay to make this process as
impossible as it can be made. Im not sure, in light of this letter, that w
chairman mcgovern, i ask unanimous consent this this memo be made part of the record. i will note that the memo states in part that a point of order may lie against reported measure in which the minority s demand for a hearing was rejected. objection noted. i also refer in the record our response to kwour lettyour lett can talk about that afterward. chairman nadler overruled the ranking member s point of order, and determined that the rule requires that the normal hearing day would permit the minority to improperly delay proceedings. were you improperly trying to delay proceedings, mr. collins? no, in this hearing i actually follow a proper set of