House Rules Cmte. voted along party lines to approve 6 hours of debate on the House floor as lawmakers vote on 2 articles of impeachment against President Trump.
"These articles charge that the president is engaged in systematic abuse of powers," Raskin said.
Collins accused Democrats of having"cherry-picked the evidence" to support the case against the president, saying Trump and Zelenskiy"said there was no pressure" to launch probes against Democrats. As the Rules meeting was underway Tuesday, the White House released a six-page letter that Trump sent to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., in which,"cheapened the importance of the very ugly word, impeachment” and said she was “declaring open war on American Democracy."
The Tuesday meeting marked a new process for the House, as the articles during the impeachment of President Bill Clinton did not come before the Rules Committee.early Monday laying out the majority's case for why Trump should be removed from office for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.to recommend that the full House consider the articles against the president.who told Congress of the president’s efforts to pressure Ukraine into launching investigations of the Bidens and Democrats.
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