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
that is correct. did that impeachment report rely on hearsay to support their insertions? yes. what explanation does chairman schiff provide when asked why hearsay rather than firsthand testimony was incorrectbly presented as evidence? besides his own discussion making up the phone call to start with, he s not provided one because he didn t testify in my committee. did you ask chairman nadler to invite chairman schiff to come testify? i did. just to be clear, you were asked to vote on articles of impeachment against our commander in chief based on a report full of hearsay and you were not permitted to ask the author of the report any questions? that is correct. all i got was a staff member. i would like to note for the record, mr. chairman, chairman schiff refused to discuss the report with the minority, and he was more than willing to appear on fox news sunday, two days ago, it s unfortunately