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
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
you got to give me credit. that was as slow as you ve ever heard me talk. you were making an effort in the beginning, and so was i. they accuse me of the same. he raises some really important points, and i have the chance to briefly address them. one thing we ve been hearing is that we didn t charge crimes. in some sense that just duplicates a basic confusion people have about what the process is. we are not criminal prosecutors prosecuting a criminal defendant in court to send to jail. that s not what we re doing. we re members of congress. we re working to protect the country against a president who is committing high crimes and misdemeanors that is constitutional offenses against the people of the country. now, lots of the conduct that we plead in our specific articles alleging abuse of power and obstruction of congress
same thing about my accent. you have to give me credit, that was as slow as you ve ever heard me. they accuse me of the same. he raises some really important points and i would love the chance to briefly address them. one thing that we ve been hearing is that we didn t charge crimes. and in some sense that just duplicates a basic confusion that people have about what the process is. we are not criminal prosecutors prosecuting a criminal definite in cou defendant to send him to jail. we re talking about high crimes and misdemeanors, that is, constitutional offences against the people of the country. lots of the conduct we plead in our specific articles alleging abuse of power and obstruction