{"id":2452369,"date":"2019-12-18T10:59:46","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T17:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=317864"},"modified":"2019-12-18T10:59:46","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T17:59:46","slug":"house-votes-to-impeach-president-trump-vote-split-across-party-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/house-votes-to-impeach-president-trump-vote-split-across-party-lines\/","title":{"rendered":"House votes to impeach President Trump; vote split across party lines"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Donald Trump speaks at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., Thursday, April 6, 2017, after the U.S. fired a barrage of cruise missiles into Syria Thursday night in retaliation for this week’s gruesome chemical weapons attack against civilians. (AP Photo\/Alex Brandon)<\/strong>
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WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 A sample of the sights and sounds across Washington on a momentous day in Washington as the House voted 228 to 197 to move forward, with just two Democrats voting no, to impeach President Donald Trump (all times Eastern):<\/p>\n

12:35 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says President Donald Trump\u2019s actions have left the House with \u201cno choice\u201d but to act on impeachment.<\/p>\n

The Democratic-run House has begun debate on two articles of impeachment against the Republican president. The first charges Trump with abuse of power. The second charges him with obstruction of Congress. The Republican-controlled Senate is expected to acquit him in a trial next year.<\/p>\n

Pelosi held her hand over her heart and recited the Pledge of Allegiance to the House. She observed that lawmakers are the \u201ccustodians of the Constitution.\u201d<\/p>\n

The California Democrat spent much of the morning in the dimly-lit third row from the back, all to herself. There, she sat in black with her mace pin on her jacket and a green folder on her lap. She flipped through sheaf of papers, appearing to read them one by one. Periodically, she looked up to hear the debate on the rules.<\/p>\n

At 12:08 p.m., Pelosi descended to the well of the chamber to the podium and to open the debate on the abuse and obstruction articles.<\/p>\n

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12:15 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Joe Kennedy III took to the House floor with impeachment \u2014 and his children \u2014 on his mind.<\/p>\n

The House was opening six hours of debate Wednesday on articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, with evening votes scheduled. And Robert Kennedy\u2019s grandson wanted to have his say.<\/p>\n

The Massachusetts Democrat read from a letter to his own young children. It said, `This is a moment you will read about in your history books.\u201d<\/p>\n

With the House moving closer to impeaching a president for only the third time in U.S. history, Kennedy wanted to explain to his kids why he felt it necessary to act. Kennedy said Trump abused the \u201cmost sacred office in our land.\u201d He said that by day\u2019s end, the record will show that \u201cjustice won. \u2026 We did not let you down.\u201d<\/p>\n

But a Republican congresswoman from Arizona accused Democrats of \u201ctearing this country apart.\u201d Debbi Lesko said the impeachment process was unfair and rigged.<\/p>\n

The House will vote on two charges \u2014 abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. The Republican-controlled Senate is expected to acquit him in a trial next year.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

9:25 a.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Utter disbelief.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the sense expressed by President Donald Trump as arose he Wednesday morning and faced the prospect that by day\u2019s end, he\u2019d likely to be just the third U.S. president to be impeached.<\/p>\n

Trump has a relatively light schedule during the day. He\u2019s indicated he won\u2019t be watching the six hours of impeachment debate on the House floor. And in the evening he\u2019s scheduled to be in Battle Creek, Michigan, for a rally.<\/p>\n

His remarks at Kellogg Arena could come around the same time as House is voting on the two charges \u2014 abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. Trump\u2019s press secretary says the president will have plenty to say at the rally about the voting back in Washington.<\/p>\n

Trump started his day as he often does: by airing his grievances on Twitter.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what he said: \u201cCan you believe that I will be impeached today by the Radical Left, Do Nothing Democrats, AND I DID NOTHING WRONG! A terrible Thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Republican-controlled Senate is expected to acquit him in a trial next year.<\/p>\n

via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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