Today the full House of Representatives will debate and vote on the articles of impeachment against Trump.
On Tuesday the House Rules Committee announced the parameters of today’s impeachment debate.
The Rules Committee approved six hours of debate on the House floor, which will be divided equally by Democrats and Republicans and will be led by the House Judiciary Committee leaders. The House will also have one hour of debate before taking the procedural vote to approve the rule governing the debate.
The House will then vote on the two articles of impeachment on abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. No amendments will be allowed. Finally, The House Rules Committee has allowed for the House to approve a resolution naming impeachment managers after the articles of impeachment have been passed.
If Trump is impeached, the process will then move to the Senate, where a trial will be held to determine whether Trump is guilty of the charges outlined in the articles of impeachment.
Today’s House session is scheduled to begin at 9:00am EST. You can watch live online on:
You can also listen online via:
On Tuesday the House Rules Committee announced the parameters of today’s impeachment debate.
The Rules Committee approved six hours of debate on the House floor, which will be divided equally by Democrats and Republicans and will be led by the House Judiciary Committee leaders. The House will also have one hour of debate before taking the procedural vote to approve the rule governing the debate.
The House will then vote on the two articles of impeachment on abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. No amendments will be allowed. Finally, The House Rules Committee has allowed for the House to approve a resolution naming impeachment managers after the articles of impeachment have been passed.
If Trump is impeached, the process will then move to the Senate, where a trial will be held to determine whether Trump is guilty of the charges outlined in the articles of impeachment.
Today’s House session is scheduled to begin at 9:00am EST. You can watch live online on:
You can also listen online via:
- C-Span or
- Download the C-Span Radio App
- Articles of Impeachment against President Trump
House Proceedings
- House Debate and Vote on HRes 660 - Thursday, 10/31/2019
- House Intelligence Committee Report on Impeachment Inquiry - Executive Summary
- House Intelligence Committee Report on Impeachment Inquiry - Complete Report
- Speaker Nancy Pelosi Statement, requesting Chaimen to proceed with Articles of Impeachment - r/politics Megathread
- Constitutional Grounds for Presidential Impeachment - Report by the Majority Staff of the House Judiciary Committee
- House Democrats Announce Articles of Impeachment
- Articles of Impeachment against President Trump
- Impeachment of Donald J. Trump, President of the United States - Report of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives
* Letter from President Donald Trump to Speaker Nancy Pelosi
The Accusation:
The Evidence:
The Defense:
- Trump illegally withheld Congressionally-approved military aid (from the Ukraine) and used the power of his office to ask a foreign leader to announce an investigation into 2020 Democrat Presidential candidate, Joe Biden (also the former VP and lifetime Democratic politician whom Republicans greatly like and esteem and respect and often praise)
The Evidence:
- The call memorandum - Link to Memorandum
- trump's on-camera confession on the White House lawn that he wanted Ukraine to investigate the Biden's - Link to Video
- Mick Mulvaney's on-camera confession that there was in fact a quid pro quo. Link to Video
- Text messages corroborating that aid was being withheld until the investigation was announced - Text Messages PDF
- trump cut anti-corruption funding - Article 1, Article 2, Article 3
- Testimony from career diplomats corroborating that aid was being withheld until the investigation was announced.
- Ukraine call summary was moved to classified server....by accident - Article 1, Article 2, Article 3
- Neither Republican controlled House nor the White House raised corruption or the Bidens before releasing aid in 2018 - Article 1 , Article 2
The Defense:
- The process is unfair: Republicans changed the House rules in 2015 - 2015 Article, Article 2, Article 3
- The aid was released (after they got caught) - August 28: Politico publishes article about aid being on hold. September 9: House launches investigation, September 11: Aid is released - Article with Time Line, September 30: End of fiscal year. Defense Dept. had to spend the military aid or lose it. trump did't have much time. Article
- No investigation was announced or started (because they got caught & because the aid was released after they got caught) - Article 1, Article 2
- The victim, whose country still depends on U.S. aid, says he's not a victim.
- No fact witnesses (blocked by trump) - Article 1, Article 2, Article 3
- No evidence (see above + subpoenas blocked by trump). Article 1, Article 2
- Democrats wanting to impeach since day one.
- The process is going too fast.
- We couldn't question the author of the House Judiciary Committee report.
- A republican house member was caught communicating with president's personal attorney regarding Ukraine.
- Ukraine was corrupt (The appropriate channels had cleared Ukraine; 2017 & 2018 aid was released) - Article 1, Article 2, Article 3
- trump was only fighting corruption (let us see his anti-corruption agenda) -
- trump rolls back anti-corruption efforts in oil industry - Article
- trump wanted to weaken Foreign Corruption Practices Act - Article
- trump illegally used charity foundation, pays $2 million - Article
- trump sham university, pays $25 million - Article
- trump companies accused of tax evasion in Panama - Article
- how trump inherited his money - Article
- profitable to lenders, less profitable to tax officials - Article
- Individual 1 - Article
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