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Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer is seeking details from the acting Director of National Intelligence and the intelligence community inspector general about efforts to protect the whistleblower who provided information about the conversation between President Donald Trump and the president of Ukraine.
PHOENIX – U.S. Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., failed Monday to push through a vote to censure Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., over his handling of the impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump.
Last month, Biggs introduced the measure to censure Schiff over comments he made during a hearing he oversaw in his role as chairman of the House Intelligence Committee.
Biggs, who represents the East Valley, recruited 184 cosponsors for the motion, which was postponed Monday by a 218-185 vote across party lines.
When Donald Trump was running for president, he campaigned on ending endless wars and bringing members of the American military home. Last week he ordered the few special operations forces on the Syria-Turkey border to withdraw and has drawn heavily criticism from the Washington bubble for "abandoning our allies" – the Kurds.
Earlier this week, Rep. Denny Heck, a Democratic member of the House Intelligence Committee, told reporters that Republicans "are darn lucky these [hearings/depositions] weren't public."
Implication: The information coming out is horrifically damaging to President Trump.
Reality: If the information was truly damaging to Trump, Democrats would hold open hearings and would have already released transcripts of the testimonies.
House Freedom Caucus Chairman Andy Biggs will delay the vote on his resolution to censure Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff in light of Oversight Chairman Elijah Cummings‘ passing until next week.
Mr. Biggs, Arizona Republican, formally introduced his resolution — which has at least 170 Republican cosponsors — on Wednesday, which would allow the minority party to force a vote by Thursday.
Out of respect for the passing of Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) today, Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) announced that he will postpone the required vote on his motion to condemn and censure Rep. Adam Schiff (D-MA).
Republicans are seeking to put off for a few days their effort to censure House Intelligence Committee Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) following the death of longtime Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), the head of the powerful House Oversight and Reform Committee.
GOP Rep. Steve Scalise slammed House Democrats' latest move to impeach the President Wednesday; saying left-wing lawmakers are using "soviet style tactics" to remove Donald Trump from the White House.
"Adam Schiff's opening statement, he didn't read the transcript from the whistleblower, he read his own version. A false version. It shows how unserious they are about this process," said Scalise.
House Democrats in recent days have sharpened their counterattacks to Republican assertions that they're running an illegitimate and nontransparent impeachment process.
The rebukes represent a shift in messaging strategy as Democrats had largely been trying to avoid engaging in a back-and-forth about process, arguing the GOP was manufacturing concerns to avoid having to defend President Donald Trump on the substance of the impeachment inquiry.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Andy Biggs introduced an updated motion to condemn and censure House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff for his false retelling of the conversation between President Trump and Ukraine President Zelensky during a recent Congressional hearing, for spreading false accusations that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia in the 2016 election, and for concealing his dealings with the whistleblower from the rest of the Intelligence Committee and lying to the American public about it.