Impeachment Trial

Floor Speech

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Ms. NORTON. Madam Speaker, the conventional wisdom that Speaker Pelosi and the Democrats gained nothing from the delay in sending the Articles of Impeachment to the Senate is contradicted by the results. Some Republican Senators are said to be working to assure witnesses, as Speaker Pelosi demanded.

There are 53 Republican Senators and 47 Democrats. Notwithstanding where they stand on impeachment itself, it would benefit Republican moderates and even others to avoid the stigma of unprecedented unfairness by at least allowing witnesses, which requires only a 51 percent majority. Witnesses would help mitigate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's undisguised unfairness in working directly with the White House.

As a result of the Pelosi delay, even Senator McConnell now says he will follow the Clinton impeachment process. Depositions from witnesses were ultimately allowed there.

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