The House has just released the text of their “impeachment resolution” that is supposed to be voted on Thursday:
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What’s interesting about this is that both Pelosi and Hoyer are now saying this isn’t an “impeachment” resolution, because Democrats are reportedly skittish about using the term “impeachment”:
Hoyer today: “This is not an impeachment resolution.” Pelosi last night: "It's not an impeachment resolution." Dems skittish about using impeachment word. With an homage to Prince, perhaps it's “The Resolution formerly known as ‘Impeachment’” or “Democrats and the Resolution”
— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) October 29, 2019
I haven’t read the text yet, but from what I’m hearing this isn’t the “impeachment” resolution people thought Democrats were going to release. It might be better known as an “impeachment inquiry” resolution.
I’ll post more on this when I have it…
UPDATE: It looks like Nancy Pelosi is simply trying to formalize her so-called impeachment inquiry that isn’t really a true impeachment inquiry and establish rules for it:
Keys to Dem impeachment resolution: Inteligence, Oversight, Foreign Affairs Cmtes continue to be involved and can transfer info to Judiciary Cmte. Judiciary would actually write articles of impeachment. No timeline to complete inquiry. Intel can have open hearings
— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) October 29, 2019
Dems resolution says it is “directing certain committees to continue their ongoing investigations..into whether sufficient grounds exist..to impeach Donald John Trump”
— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) October 29, 2019
This Pelosi non-impeachment resolution is hilarious. It goes out of its way to avoid authorizing a specific investigation and delegation of authority and instead repeatedly references an "investigation" that under the rules of the House doesn't even exist. https://t.co/KYIoKkL31J
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) October 29, 2019
Pelosi's resolution references "the existing House of Representatives inquiry," but no such House of Representatives investigation exists, because the House of Representatives never authorized one. And this resolution doesn't either. pic.twitter.com/blss6WWPBh
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) October 29, 2019
In other words, this isn’t full-blown articles of impeachment. Because they still don’t have anything on which to impeach Trump. AND Pelosi wants to protect her red-state members from actually having to vote on actual impeachment when they don’t have anything worthy of impeachment.