Author: Natalie Andrews
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Trump denounces House Dems as impeachment vote looms
WASHINGTON • President Donald Trump assailed the House impeachment probe and accused Democrats of trying to overturn his election, as lawmakers prepared for a final day of debate followed by a vote that is expected to make Trump the third U.S. president to be impeached. Potential drama over the outcome of Wednesday’s planned vote evaporated…
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House panel approves Trump impeachment articles
WASHINGTON • The House Judiciary Committee approved two articles of impeachment charging President Donald Trump with abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, setting up a vote by the full House next week before the matter moves to the Senate after the new year. The panel’s party-line votes Friday came after Democrats and Republicans sparred…
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House Dems announce two articles of impeachment against Trump
WASHINGTON • The House Judiciary Committee will pursue two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, focused on his effort to push Ukraine to announce investigations that would benefit him in 2020 and his decision to block participation in the subsequent congressional probe. “We must be clear: No one, not even the president, is above…
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A Guide to the Public Impeachment Hearings
This week, the public will get to hear directly from impeachment witnesses as they are likely to describe a subversion of American policy toward Ukraine by a handful of President Trump’s allies. Here is a guide to the hearings, with State Department officials George Kent and Bill Taylor up first on Wednesday. FORMAT The impeachment…
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House to vote on a road map for its impeachment inquiry
WASHINGTON • The House plans to vote on a resolution laying out Democrats’ next steps in the impeachment inquiry into President Trump and move to a public phase of the investigation, the first significant vote since the probe began. This isn’t a vote to authorize starting an impeachment inquiry, but it would affirm the one…
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Ex-U.S. ambassador testifies in inquiry
WASHINGTON • A top U.S. diplomat in Kyiv said President Donald Trump made nearly $400 million in aid contingent on the Ukrainian president investigating Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and alleged Ukrainian interference in the 2016 U.S. election, in testimony that shed new light on the central question facing the impeachment inquiry. Bill Taylor, the…
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Concerns by Colorado’s Gardner, other GOP senators muddy path to quickly dismiss possible impeachment charges
WASHINGTON • Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has suggested that a vote by the Democratic-controlled House to impeach President Trump could be quickly dispensed with in his chamber. One way to do that: The Republican-controlled Senate could vote on a motion to dismiss the charges without a trial. But despite the GOP’s 53-seat Senate majority,…