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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 a ....
Essence it was dilatory. i ve never heard the minority called dilatordilatory. on the first day the request had been made. the minority is entitled to one additional day of related hearings at which to call their own witnesses if a majority of the minority members make their demand before the committee hearing has been gavelled closed. i believe mr. collins invoked that at the hearing. statements posted on the rules majority website in a document entitled, quote, house rules which govern the committee hearing process, unquote, based on review of the hearing video the minority properly presented their request to chairman nadler before the original hearing concluded. are you familiar with a memo written by mr. iran rraskin, ....