“I feel like it was cheapened in the last Congress. “I think if people see that we’re being honest about this and that impeachment is a very serious thing, it should go through committee,” Bacon told reporters. Don Bacon, R-Neb., said earlier Wednesday that impeachment should go through the committee process and confirmed he would back a Democratic effort to “table” Boebert’s resolution, or set it aside. Some Republicans predicted that the resolution did not have enough GOP votes to pass. The House will still act on the resolution Thursday as required, but will vote on whether to refer it to congressional committees.īoebert told reporters Wednesday night that if nothing happens in committee as she was “promised,” that, “yes, I will bring a privileged resolution every day for the rest of my time here in Congress.” And it seems that nothing happens in Washington, D.C., without force.”īy offering a privileged resolution, Boebert was positioned to force a House floor vote on impeachment. And so that’s why I brought my privileged resolution to the floor to force action. We should have been working on impeachment since we took hold of the gavels in this Congress, and I didn’t see any progress in the committees. “I’m fine with the process taking place…if we send this to that committee, then yes, we are forcing the committee to do the work of impeaching Joe Biden,” the second-term lawmaker said.Īsked about McCarthy’s suggestion behind closed doors that it might be premature to bring an impeachment resolution straight to the floor, Boebert said: “I think there’s nothing premature about it.
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