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Members of the House of Representatives vote on the articles of impeachment for the first impeachment of Donald Trump. In the United States, federal impeachment is the process by which the House of Representatives charges the president, vice president, or another civil federal officer for alleged misconduct.
Article I, Section 2, Clause 5 of the U.S. Constitution states that "The House of Representatives ... shall have the sole Power of Impeachment." [104] Steny Hoyer's full statement ahead of house vote. On December 17, the House Rules Committee held a hearing to write the rules governing the debate over impeachment. [105]
Impeachment begins in the House of Representatives, where articles of impeachment are drawn up. These articles are then voted on by House members. Each article is voted on separately and requires a simple majority to pass. Once an article has been passed in the House, the president has been impeached.
The House of Representatives, by an extremely narrow margin, voted Tuesday to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, the first Cabinet secretary to be impeached in almost 150 years.
An impeachment proceeding formally begins with a resolution adopted by the full House of Representatives. [10] An impeachment resolution may first pass through a House committee before the full House votes on it. [10] The type of impeachment resolution determines the committee to which it is referred.
The House vote to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas failed Tuesday evening, a stunning blow to House Republicans who had pushed the effort as a key political goal.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. House of Representatives voted on Monday to pause the effort to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, halting a Republican campaign that alleges he ...
Impeachment Two articles of impeachment related to racially inflammatory statements made as president that allegedly brought harm to American society and injury on the people of the United States Considered as a privileged matter on January 19, 2018 and the House voted 355–66 to table the resolution (with 3 additional members voting present ...