Democrats kill GOP effort to censure Rep. Schiff over impeachment inquiry [View all]
Source: NBC News
WASHINGTON — Republicans failed to force a vote on the House floor on Monday evening on a resolution that would have censured House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., for his handling of the impeachment inquiry.
Democrats, who control the chamber, killed the GOP effort after House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., offered a motion to table the measure. The motion was adopted in a 218-185 vote.
Schiff tweeted minutes after the vote, "It will be said of House Republicans, When they found they lacked the courage to confront the most dangerous and unethical president in American history, They consoled themselves by attacking those who did."
Introduced by Arizona Republican Andy Biggs, who chairs the conservative House Freedom Caucus, the resolution alleged that Schiff "manufactured a false retelling" of the phone call between President Donald Trump and Ukraine's leader, instead of quoting from the record of the conversation released by the White House. Schiff made the remarks at a Sept. 26 hearing on a whistleblower complaint about the phone call.
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BREAKING: The House voted largely along party lines to table the measure sponsored by Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) and backed by GOP leadership.
The resolution took issue with House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam B. Schiff's remarks at a Sept. 26 hearing. Schiff (D-Calif.) embellished the transcript of the July phone call in which President Trump pressed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate the Bidens.
Schiff later said his remarks were intended as a parody and that Trump and others who have criticized him should have recognized that.
This is a developing story. It will be updated.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-impeachment-inquiry-live-updates/2019/10/21/c6630a30-f3e9-11e9-8cf0-4cc99f74d127_story.html
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