{"id":799742,"date":"2019-09-24T17:04:16","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T23:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=372009"},"modified":"2019-09-24T17:04:16","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T23:04:16","slug":"colorado-congressman-joe-neguse-issues-statement-on-house-impeachment-inquiry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/colorado-congressman-joe-neguse-issues-statement-on-house-impeachment-inquiry\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado Congressman Joe Neguse issues statement on House impeachment inquiry"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"638\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/GovernmentWebCard-SDN-1024x638.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/GovernmentWebCard-SDN-1024x638.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/GovernmentWebCard-SDN-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/GovernmentWebCard-SDN-768x479.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Congressman Joe Neguse, a Democrat representing Colorado\u2019s 2nd Congressional District issued a statement Tuesday following House Speaker Nancy Pelosi\u2019s announcement that the House would be opening a formal impeachment probe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe President has shown complete disregard for the law, the office of the Presidency and our Constitution,\u201d said Neguse in an emailed statement. \u201cIn the last week, we learned that he pressured Ukrainian officials to launch an investigation into former Vice President Joe Biden. There is no question that inviting political interference in our democratic process is an impeachable offense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Neguse represents Summit County in Congress and&nbsp;serves on the House Judiciary Committee. In May 2019 he was the first Colorado lawmaker to call for an impeachment inquiry.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/colorado-congressman-joe-neguse-issues-statement-on-house-impeachment-inquiry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congressman Joe Neguse, a Democrat representing Colorado\u2019s 2nd Congressional District issued a statement Tuesday following House Speaker Nancy Pelosi\u2019s announcement that the House would be opening a formal impeachment probe. \u201cThe President has shown complete disregard for the law, the office of the Presidency and our Constitution,\u201d said Neguse in an emailed statement. \u201cIn the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-799742","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-24 11:53:24","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=799742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}