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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.
Arizona Rep. Andy Biggs tried to force a vote on his motion to censure and condemn Adam Schiff for his handling of the impeachment inquiry.
Biggs took to the floor Wednesday to force a vote on the motion to censure Schiff and put an end to the closed-door process that has carried the impeachment inquiry thus far. He touted House rules as the Republican Party's only option to force votes while in the minority.
Members of the House Freedom Caucus tried to listen in on a testimony by a former top aide to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. On Wednesday, Michael McKinley testified about his knowledge of how the State Department handled the Ukraine controversy.
Some conservatives weren't allowed to participate because they don't sit on the panels leading the impeachment probe. Their request to view the transcript of testimony from Kurt Volker was also rejected again.
Freedom Caucus Chairman Andy Biggs accused Democrats of leaking information to control the narrative.
Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) officially announced his motion to censure House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff for a "whole host of misconduct" related to the impeachment inquiry on Wednesday. He embellished parts of the phone call between President Trump and Ukrainian President Zelensky during a congressional hearing, and is now barring minority members of Congress from attending closed door testimony.
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.
WASHINGTON – A half-dozen Republican lawmakers sought access Wednesday to a closed-door deposition with a former State Department official that is part of the House impeachment inquiry, but they were blocked in an escalation of the partisan dispute over the investigation of President Donald Trump.
House Democrats are subpoenaing testimony and documents from current and former Trump appointees and career officials who they hope will give them more fodder in their quest to prove allegations by an anonymous "whistleblower" with second-hand information alleging that Trump withheld military aid from Ukraine in exchange for helping the U.S. investigate the origins of the Russia collusion hoax and possible corruption by Hunter Biden.