A cold job by his democratic rivals will begin on tuesday hello this is aljazeera Adrian Finnegan here with our coverage in doha lets bring in our correspondent joe castro whos on capitol hill right now heidi just explain to us once again what it is were seeing right now. Well sure youre seeing the Senate Members are preparing to receive the articles of impeachment which in minutes time we were told they are to be serum only only walked across the building the u. S. Capitol building from the u. S. House of representatives side which is where all of the impeachment proceedings thus far have unfolded those hearings those votes and those articles would have been printed out they allege that trump abused his the power of this office and. Who did not cooperate with. Investigators in obstruction of congress with the impeachment investigation and those articles will be delivered by hand accompanied by 7 appointed impeachment managers these are the democratic members of the house who have been
Receive the managers of the house of representatives to exhibit the articles of impeachment against Donald John Trump, president of the United States. The president pro tempore the hour of 12 00 noon having arrived and a quorum being present, the sergeant at arms will present the managers on the part of the house of representatives. The sergeant at arms mr. President and members of the senate, i announce the presence of the managers on the part of the house of representatives to conduct proceedings on behalf of the house concerning the impeachment of Donald John Trump, president of the United States. The president pro tempore on the part of the house will be received and escorted to the well of the senate. The president pro tempore the sergeant at arms will make the proclamation. The sergeant at arms hear ye, hear ye, hear ye all persons are commanded to keep silent on pain of imprisonment while the house of representatives is exhibiting to the senate of the United States articles of i
Of todays debate on impeachment. It begins with the reading of the articles. In the name of itself and of the people of the United States of america against donald john trump, president of the United States of america in maintenance and support of its impeachment against him for high crimes and iss demeaners. Article 1, abuse of power. The house of representatives should have the soul power of. Mpeachment in his conduct of the office of president of the United States, and in violation of his constitutional oath faithfully to execute the office of president of the United States and to the best of his ability, preserve, protect and defend the constitution of the United States and in violation of his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, donald j. Trump has abused the powers of the presidency in that using the powers of his high office, President Trump solicited the interference of a Foreign Government, ukraine, in the 2020 United States president ial elec
Where the house of representatives has begun a session to debate and then vote on whether to send him to a senate trial. Well lets have a little bit of business then hearing the m. P. H. Meant ossicles being read out lets take an injured the interests of the nation President Trump and gauged in this scheme or course of conduct through the following means one President Trump acting both directly and through his agents within and outside the United States government corruptly solicited the government of ukraine to publicly announce investigations into a a political opponent former Vice President joseph r. Biden jr and b. A discredited theory promoted by russia alleging that ukraine rather than russia interfered in the 2016 United States president ial election 2 with the same corrupt motives President Trump acting both directly and through his agents within and outside the United States government condition to official acts on the public announcements that he had requested a the release o
Welcome. We are pleased to have you. The committee will now come to order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time, pursuant to commit people five and house rule 11. The chair may postpone further proceedings today on the question of approving any measure or matter for adopting reit ant of a recorded vote. Pursuant to notice, i call up the federal Rotational Cyber Workforce Program act of 2019. ,he clerk will report the bill which was distributed in advance. The federal rotational Workforce Program act of 2019. Without objection, the bill is considered read and open to amendment at any point. I now recognize myself for five minutes. I want to thank my colleagues in the senate. , margaretry peters hassan, and ron johnson, for on the federal Rotational Cyber Workforce Program act of 2019. The bipartisan bill passed the senate by unanimous consent at the end of april, and i am pleased to consider it today. This measure would create a pro