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"The US House of Representatives has passed a resolution to formally proceed with the impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump.
The measure details how the inquiry will move into a more public phase. It was not a vote on whether the president should be removed from office.
This was the first test of support in the Democratic-controlled House for the impeachment process.
The White House condemned the vote, which passed along party lines.
Only two Democrats - representing districts that Mr Trump won handily in 2016 - voted against the resolution, along with all Republicans, for a total count of 232 in favour and 196 against."
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Trump Impeachment: House Votes to Formalise Inquiry
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(Score: 5, Informative) by Thexalon on Friday November 01 2019, @09:46PM
No, it wasn't:
1. Republicans were part of those closed sessions all along. The whole Matt Gaetz thing was a media stunt, nothing more. About half of the Republicans who "stormed" the proceedings could have just walked in without any problems, but instead barged in as part of events created for the TV cameras to make it *seem* like impeachment was some sort of shadowy Democratic conspiracy.
2. The problem wasn't Republicans coordinating their stories, which of course has been going on since before this administration took office. The problem was and remains ongoing Republican attempts at witness tampering, destruction of evidence, and obstruction of justice.
3. The rules the Democrats were following, at least up until this point, were the rules that had been created by a Republican-controlled House. Apparently, the high-minded principles Republican-controlled House members had about the House majority being the peoples' representatives curbing a lawless and unaccountable president went by the wayside as soon as they weren't the House majority. (I'm not suggesting the Democrats don't pull that kind of crap too, but as far as I'm concerned what's good for the goose is good for the gander.)
As for the validity of the charges: Based on what is currently in public evidence, the charges are evidently true. About all that's happening behind closed doors is reducing the ways the president's defenders might try to weasel out of the charges, eliminating the technicalities, etc until the senators are left with 2 possibilities: Either back an obvious crook, or vote to impeach.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.