House committee to take historic vote on Trump impeachment

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The House Judiciary Committee will vote on the articles of impeachment against President Trump Friday morning, after over 14 hours of heated debate on Thursday. Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler postponed the final votes on the articles late on Thursday evening, sparking immediate condemnation from Republicans on the committee.

The committee passed the procedural amendment that precedes the final vote on the two articles — abuse of power and obstruction of Congress — shortly before midnight on Thursday by a voice vote, but Republicans on the committee still may call for a roll call vote when the committee reconvenes at 10 a.m. on Friday. Although Republicans may introduce procedural amendments to stall the final vote, they can no longer introduce amendments to the actual articles.

The committee will then hold two separate votes on each article. The articles are expected to pass along party lines, and then will move to the floor for a full House vote next week.

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Ranking Member Doug Collins called the postponement “inappropriate,” and argued that Democrats only moved the vote to get greater media attention.

“The chairman’s integrity is gone,” a furious Collins told reporters after the meeting. “Words cannot describe how inappropriate this was.”

However, a senior House Judiciary staffer argued to CBS News that a Friday vote would be in the interest of greater transparency.

Republican Judiciary members have complained about process and transparency, yet apparently wanted to force the Committee to vote on Articles of Impeachment in the dark of night. In the interests of doing our constitutional duty in a transparent way for the American public, the Chairman scheduled the vote of the Articles for 10 a.m. Friday morning,” the staffer said.

Republicans on the committee introduced several amendments on Thursday, all of which failed along party lines.

Mr. Trump praised Republicans’ performance on Thursday with several tweets on Friday morning.

“The Republicans House members were fantastic yesterday. It always helps to have a much better case, in fact the Dems have no case at all, but the unity & sheer brilliance of these Republican warriors, all of them, was a beautiful sight to see. Dems had no answers and wanted out!” Mr. Trump wrote in one tweet.

Rebecca Kaplan and Victoria Albert contributed to this report

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