House Democrat Leaders Rein In Impeachment Talk
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House Dem Leaders Try to Tone Down Impeachment Talk
House Democratic leaders are urging their colleagues to tone down the impeachment rhetoric as it relates to President Donald Trump.
During a Monday evening conference call, high-ranking party leaders tried to squash talk of pursuing impeachment at this time.
According to The Hill, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and others expressed their concern over jumping on the impeachment bandwagon without concrete evidence Trump might have committed an impeachable offense.
"We need to hear from [Attorney General William] Barr and [special counsel Robert] Mueller – and we need to see the unredacted...
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OPINION: Democrats may be outsmarting themselves on impeachment
History can be a wise teacher, but it's also crucial to take the right lessons. Confronted with a should-they-or-shouldn't-they proposal on impeachment, Democrats worry that if they fail to learn history's lessons, they are doomed to repeat them.
As they held a conference call to consider the Mueller report on Monday, party leaders in the House tried to resist falling into the same trap as Republicans who tried to oust President Bill Clinton and paid a heavy short-term political price.
They also stepped up their post-Mueller investigations by subpoenaing President...
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Dems seek to rein in calls for impeachment
Democratic leaders are racing to keep the impeachment genie in its bottle.
The release of special counsel Robert Mueller’s mammoth report on Russia’s 2016 election meddling revealed a trove of details related to President Trump’s handling of the investigation, lending a new boost to the small but vocal group of Democrats pushing to oust the president — and creating new challenges for party leaders advocating a more deliberative approach.
In a conference call with House Democrats on Monday, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and other party leaders sought to rein...
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