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Vote Alert: Against the sham, Soviet-style impeachment resolution

Vote Alert: Against the sham, Soviet-style impeachment resolution

This vote was to legitimize the impeachment proceedings led by the Democratic House majority against President Donald Trump. The resolution directs the House Intelligence, Financial Services, Foreign Affairs, Judiciary, Oversight and Reform, and Ways and Means committees to “continue their ongoing investigations as part of the existing House of Representatives inquiry into whether sufficient grounds exist” to impeach the president.

House Democrats are pursuing impeachment against Trump alleging that the president abused the powers of his office by withholding congressionally appropriated aid for Ukraine to pressure that country into conducting improper investigations against his political rival Joe Biden to benefit himself. These allegations fail on two counts: 1) It is within a president’s powers to add conditions to foreign aid and past presidents have done so; 2) There are legitimate questions surrounding the Biden family’s relationships with Ukraine and possible corruption on an even larger scale, and it is in the national interest to uproot corruption involving public figures and especially potential presidential candidates.

From the beginning, the impeachment inquiry organized by Democrats has violated the norms of past impeachment proceedings. It has largely been conducted behind closed doors and in an overtly partisan manner, with Democrats wielding unprecedented power to limit the ability of the minority to issue subpoenas to call witnesses. The White House has been shut out of the process, and Trump’s lawyers don’t have access to the closed-door depositions and hearings led by the Democrats. This resolution was offered by Democrats to answer criticisms of this process and correct claims from Republicans that the House violated norms by beginning an impeachment inquiry without a full House vote.

This resolution does not address any of the process concerns. It does not authorize an impeachment investigation, but rather refers to “the existing House of Representatives inquiry” that was never authorized by a House vote. It directs the six aforementioned committees to continue their illegitimate investigations while only authorizing the House Intelligence Committee to conduct open impeachment hearings. It sets parameters for the House Judiciary Committee to proceed with impeachment after receiving findings and recommendations from the Intelligence Committee. The rules permit Intelligence Committee Republicans to subpoena witnesses for testimony, but only after giving 72 hours’ notice to Chairman Schiff, who is permitted to reject the requests. If a request is rejected, the minority has a right to refer the request to the full Democrat-majority committee, which then will vote on the request.

Impeachment of a sitting U.S. president is serious. The American people deserve a transparent, bipartisan, and fair process when the removal of a duly elected president is within the realm of possibility. This impeachment resolution does not give the American people that fair process.

The House of Representatives voted to approve this impeachment resolution on October 31, 2019, at 11:27 a.m. ET in a roll call vote of 232 – 196.

To see how your elected officials stack up or other votes that compose the Liberty Score, view our full scorecard here.

CR position: NO


U.S. House of Representatives*

*Minority party (Republicans) in italics

YEAs — 232

Adams

Aguilar

Allred

Amash

Axne

Barragán

Bass

Beatty

Bera

Beyer

Bishop (GA)

Blumenauer

Blunt Rochester

Bonamici

Boyle, Brendan F.

Brindisi

Brown (MD)

Brownley (CA)

Bustos

Butterfield

Carbajal

Cárdenas

Carson (IN)

Cartwright

Case

Casten (IL)

Castor (FL)

Castro (TX)

Chu, Judy

Cicilline

Cisneros

Clark (MA)

Clarke (NY)

Clay

Cleaver

Clyburn

Cohen

Connolly

Cooper

Correa

Costa

Courtney

Cox (CA)

Craig

Crist

Crow

Cuellar

Cunningham

Davids (KS)

Davis (CA)

Davis, Danny K.

Dean

DeFazio

DeGette

DeLauro

DelBene

Delgado

Demings

DeSaulnier

Deutch

Dingell

Doggett

Doyle, Michael F.

Engel

Escobar

Eshoo

Espaillat

Evans

Finkenauer

Fletcher

Foster

Frankel

Fudge

Gabbard

Gallego

Garamendi

García (IL)

Garcia (TX)

Golden

Gomez

Gonzalez (TX)

Gottheimer

Green, Al (TX)

Grijalva

Haaland

Harder (CA)

Hastings

Hayes

Heck

Higgins (NY)

Hill (CA)

Himes

Horn, Kendra S.

Horsford

Houlahan

Hoyer

Huffman

Jackson Lee

Jayapal

Jeffries

Johnson (GA)

Johnson (TX)

Kaptur

Keating

Kelly (IL)

Kennedy

Khanna

Kildee

Kilmer

Kim

Kind

Kirkpatrick

Krishnamoorthi

Kuster (NH)

Lamb

Langevin

Larsen (WA)

Larson (CT)

Lawrence

Lawson (FL)

Lee (CA)

Lee (NV)

Levin (CA)

Levin (MI)

Lewis

Lieu, Ted

Lipinski

Loebsack

Lofgren

Lowenthal

Lowey

Luján

Luria

Lynch

Malinowski

Maloney, Carolyn B.

Maloney, Sean

Matsui

McAdams

McBath

McCollum

McGovern

McNerney

Meeks

Meng

Moore

Morelle

Moulton

Mucarsel-Powell

Murphy (FL)

Nadler

Napolitano

Neal

Neguse

Norcross

O'Halleran

Ocasio-Cortez

Omar

Pallone

Panetta

Pappas

Pascrell

Payne

Pelosi

Perlmutter

Peters

Phillips

Pingree

Pocan

Porter

Pressley

Price (NC)

Quigley

Raskin

Rice (NY)

Richmond

Rose (NY)

Rouda

Roybal-Allard

Ruiz

Ruppersberger

Rush

Ryan

Sánchez

Sarbanes

Scanlon

Schakowsky

Schiff

Schneider

Schrader

Schrier

Scott (VA)

Scott, David

Serrano

Sewell (AL)

Shalala

Sherman

Sherrill

Sires

Slotkin

Smith (WA)

Soto

Spanberger

Speier

Stanton

Stevens

Suozzi

Swalwell (CA)

Takano

Thompson (CA)

Thompson (MS)

Titus

Tlaib

Tonko

Torres (CA)

Torres Small (NM)

Trahan

Trone

Underwood

Vargas

Veasey

Vela

Velázquez

Visclosky

Wasserman Schultz

Waters

Watson Coleman

Welch

Wexton

Wild

Wilson (FL)

Yarmuth

NAYS — 196

Abraham

Aderholt

Allen

Amodei

Armstrong

Arrington

Babin

Bacon

Baird

Balderson

Banks

Barr

Bergman

Biggs

Bilirakis

Bishop (NC)

Bishop (UT)

Bost

Brady

Brooks (AL)

Brooks (IN)

Buchanan

Buck

Bucshon

Budd

Burchett

Burgess

Byrne

Calvert

Carter (GA)

Carter (TX)

Chabot

Cheney

Cline

Cloud

Cole

Collins (GA)

Comer

Conaway

Cook

Crawford

Crenshaw

Curtis

Davidson (OH)

Davis, Rodney

DesJarlais

Diaz-Balart

Duncan

Dunn

Emmer

Estes

Ferguson

Fitzpatrick

Fleischmann

Flores

Fortenberry

Foxx (NC)

Fulcher

Gaetz

Gallagher

Gianforte

Gibbs

Gohmert

Gonzalez (OH)

Gooden

Gosar

Granger

Graves (GA)

Graves (LA)

Graves (MO)

Green (TN)

Griffith

Grothman

Guest

Guthrie

Hagedorn

Harris

Hartzler

Hern, Kevin

Herrera Beutler

Higgins (LA)

Hill (AR)

Holding

Hollingsworth

Hudson

Huizenga

Hunter

Hurd (TX)

Johnson (LA)

Johnson (OH)

Johnson (SD)

Jordan

Joyce (OH)

Joyce (PA)

Katko

Keller

Kelly (MS)

Kelly (PA)

King (IA)

King (NY)

Kinzinger

Kustoff (TN)

LaHood

LaMalfa

Lamborn

Latta

Lesko

Long

Loudermilk

Lucas

Luetkemeyer

Marchant

Marshall

Massie

Mast

McCarthy

McCaul

McClintock

McHenry

McKinley

Meadows

Meuser

Miller

Mitchell

Moolenaar

Mooney (WV)

Mullin

Murphy (NC)

Newhouse

Norman

Nunes

Olson

Palazzo

Palmer

Pence

Perry

Peterson

Posey

Ratcliffe

Reed

Reschenthaler

Rice (SC)

Riggleman

Roby

Rodgers (WA)

Roe, David P.

Rogers (AL)

Rogers (KY)

Rooney (FL)

Rouzer

Roy

Rutherford

Scalise

Schweikert

Scott, Austin

Sensenbrenner

Shimkus

Simpson

Smith (MO)

Smith (NE)

Smith (NJ)

Smucker

Spano

Stauber

Stefanik

Steil

Steube

Stewart

Stivers

Taylor

Thompson (PA)

Thornberry

Tipton

Turner

Upton

Van Drew

Wagner

Walberg

Walden

Walker

Walorski

Waltz

Watkins

Weber (TX)

Webster (FL)

Wenstrup

Westerman

Williams

Wilson (SC)

Wittman

Womack

Woodall

Wright

Yoho

Young

Zeldin

Not Voting — 4

Hice (GA)

McEachin

Rose, John W.

Timmons

*Minority party (Republicans) in italics

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