The White House informed House Oversight Chair James Comer that President Joe Biden will not accept his invitation to testify in a committee impeachment inquiry hearing, according to a letter obtained first by CNN, further insulting the Republican-led effort. “Your impeachment investigation is over,” Special Counsel to the President Richard Sauber wrote to Comer on Monday. “We decline your invitation for President Biden to testify.” In the letter, Sauber said that the president “has done nothing...
By Annie Grayer, CNN (CNN) — The White House informed House Oversight Chair James Comer that President Joe Biden will not accept his invitation to testify in a committee impeachment inquiry hearing, according to a letter obtained first by CNN, further insulting the Republican-led effort. “Your impeachment investigation is over,” Special Counsel to the President
Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) briefly spoke to the press ahead of a House Democratic Caucus meeting on Capitol Hill. He called Congress "the most dysfunctional in history, " and said if the foreign aid bills pass Congress, "it will be yet another example of the work of congress getting completed and accomplished solely because democrats put country over party."
(Inside California Politics) — Northern California Congressman Tom McClintock (R-El Dorado Hills) joined Inside California Politics co-host Frank Buckley to discuss his opposition to the impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. Rep. McClintock says this effort should not have moved forward based on policy disagreements. "This was an unfortunate dumbing-down of the standards for []
UPDATE (April 17, 2024, 4:35 p.m. ET): Democrats in the Senate voted that both impeachment articles did not rise to the standard of "high crimes and misdemeanors," making them unconstitutional and putting an end to the trial. Democracy is under attack at home and abroad. On Saturday, the antidemocratic regime in Iran launched more than 300 missiles and drones at our democratic ally, Israel, while Russia simultaneously sent the same Iranian-designed drones into Ukraine. On Monday, Donald Trump...
Biden Refuses To Testify In GOP Impeachment Inquiry Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), President Joe Biden will not be testifying to U.S. House of Representatives members who are engaged in an impeachment inquiry against him, the White House said on April 15. President Joe Biden speaks during a joint press conference with the Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at the Rose Garden of the White House, on April 10, 2024. (Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch...
House Republicans have sent to the Senate two articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, a step that launches a trial in the Senate as GOP lawmakers seek to highlight President Joe Biden’s handling of immigration policy. The Democratic-controlled Senate, however, is expected to quickly dismiss the charges without a trial or conduct a speedy trial that ends without a conviction. Mayorkas, who took the helm at the start of the Biden administration, is the first...
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) signed articles of impeachment against U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas on Monday.
Maybe I’m going out on a limb here, but the hapless House Republicans have finally achieved something big: an end to tit-for-tat impeachments. Of course, that’s the opposite of the achievement they promised two years ago, ahead of the midterm elections that gave them control of the House. Back then, some chest-beaters were vowing to impeach President Biden as well as members of his Cabinet, starting with Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas, the administration’s border security...
The Conners have always struggled with money — but a financial development in the Roseanne spinoff’s most recent episode probably caught a few longtime viewers off guard. Season 6, Episode 8 (“Toilet Hacks and the Management Trick”) marked Dan Conner’s 70th birthday. To commemorate the occasion, Dan announced to the family that he was going […]
Democratic members have argued the articles are a matter of policy dispute and not ‘high crimes’ outlined in the constitutionHouse Republicans on Tuesday formally presented articles of impeachment against Alejandro Mayorkas, the homeland security secretary, to the Senate, part of the party’s attempt to force an election-year showdown with the Biden administration over immigration and border security.In a ceremonial procession, 11 House Republican impeachment managers carried the two articles of...
Republican members of the House of Representatives walked through the capitol to deliver articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secy. Alejandro Mayorkas to the Senate. NBC News' Ali Vitali has details on how the House came to this action and what may come next.