‘A Total Sham’: Pelosi Blasted for Putting off Vote on Impeachment Inquiry
House Republicans are knocking House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) after she made it known that she isn't going to hold a vote now on an impeachment inquiry.
During a press conference on Tuesday, Pelosi announced that the House of Representatives will be holding off on a vote to authorize a formal impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump.
"There's no requirement that we have a vote," the House speaker said, adding, "We're not here to call bluffs. We're here to find the truth to uphold the Constitution of the United States. This is not a game for us. This is deadly serious."
She added that House Democrats are already on a "path to truth."
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) blasted his California colleague for Democrats' "plan to sneak impeachment past the American people" by not holding a "single vote" on it.
"This is a total sham," McCarthy tweeted.
During Wednesday's press conference, several House Republicans tore into their Democratic colleagues for continuing with an impeachment inquiry, without a full vote.
House Republican Conference Chair Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) claimed that the materials regarding the impeachment probe are being "kept in secret" from other members of Congress.
Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) said House Republicans want to make the "message clear" to their Democratic colleagues "that how [the impeachment inquiry] is happening is absolutely untenable, unacceptable, and unprecedented. It is not due process."
House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) questioned, "Why are they trying to impeach a President of the United States behind closed doors, in secret, where the public can't see it, the press can't see it?"
Additionally, Rep. Doug Collins (R-Ga.) had something to say about Pelosi's announcement on holding off on the vote.
As he said on Twitter, Pelosi's remarks "further reveals that she intends to keep her partisan ‘impeachment' push in the shadows, where she and [Adam Schiff] can keep the truth and their unfair tactics are hidden from public scrutiny."