House votes to send impeachment resolution to Judiciary Committee
By Nick Juliano | Uncategorized | Wednesday, 11 June 2008
The House of Representatives voted Wednesday to send articles of impeachment
against President Bush to the Judiciary Committee for review.
The impeachment resolutionÂ’s sponsor, Rep. Dennis Kucinich, requested a
recorded vote on the motion around 3 p.m. Wednesday, and 24 Republicans
joined nearly all Democrats in voting to send the impeachment measure to the
committee.
The motion passed 251-166.
“It is imperative that Members of Congress have a thorough opportunity to
read the Articles of Impeachment and study the documentation,” Kucinich said
in a news release Tuesday. “When they do, I am confident that they will
agree that it is both appropriate and necessary for the Judiciary Committee
to begin hearings on the Resolution.”
Kucinich took to the floor of the House Monday evening to read his 35
articles of impeachment, accusing Bush of war crimes, breaking his oath of
office and misleading Americans to launch an illegal invasion of Iraq. The
Ohio Democrat said impeachment was the only way to keep Bush from launching
another invasion of Iran.
The Judiciary Committee, chaired by Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), already has
before it articles of impeachment aimed at Vice President Dick Cheney. Since
receiving that impeachment measure in November, the committee has done
nothing.
Democratic leaders in the House seem determined to block the latest
impeachment measure as well, and it remains all-but-impossible that the
House would proceed with impeachment hearings before Bush leaves office.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi is sticking by her earlier pledge to make sure
impeaching Bush and Cheney is an option that remains strictly “off the
table.”
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