Headline Roundup December 18, 2019
The House Debates Impeachment
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The Washington Post
The House has begun a historic day of debate that is expected to end with votes to impeach President Trump for his conduct toward Ukraine, making him only the third president in U.S. history to receive that sanction.
Based on public announcements, Democrats have enough votes to approve articles of impeachment against Trump for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. Wednesday’s action will lead to a trial in the Republican-led Senate, where a two-thirds vote would be required to remove the president from office.
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House Democrats are poised to take the historic step of impeaching President Trump on Wednesday, marking what will be the most partisan vote to remove a sitting president since the country's founding.
The highly divisive vote — packed into the very last week of the legislative year — is sure to exacerbate tensions in Washington and around the country heading into a crucial election year, when echoes of impeachment could play an outsize role up and down the ballot.
The Democrats’ decision to bring impeachment to the floor caps months...
The House on Wednesday is set to impeach President Trump along strictly partisan lines, setting up a January Senate trial that has already provoked a battle between Democrats and Republicans that will consume Congress in the new year.
In defiance of indifferent and sagging poll numbers for impeachment, House Democrats are poised to approve two articles of impeachment accusing Trump of abusing power and obstructing Congress.
The looming vote would make Trump the third president in history to be impeached by the House. He’ll join President Bill Clinton, who was...
