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
no. did the democratic majority subpoena all core witnesses with firsthand evidence on any potential quid pro quo with the ukrainian controversy? no. has anyone in the trump administration been charged with or convicted of a crime under the current allegations related to the ukraine? no. let me continue. it s my understanding that the minority properly exercised its right under clause 2-j-1 of rule 11 to demand a minority hearing. is that the case? that is correct. what day did you ask for that hearing? we asked for it on the first day of our when we convened in the judiciary committee. i don t remember the date. i have it right in front of me, i ll be happy to provide that. has that hearing been scheduled? no. it was summarily dismissed by the long letter which said in