House tosses aside move to start impeachment proceedings against Trump
The House voted to table a resolution to start impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump.
Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, talks with reporters after a meeting of House Democrats in the Capitol on Wednesday, July 17, 2019.The House quashed a move to start impeachment proceedings against PresidentThe House tabled, or set aside, an impeachment resolution introduced by Rep. Al Green, D-Texas in a 332-95 vote.
Mueller's descriptions of several potential instances of Trump trying to disrupt the probe into Russian efforts to interfere in the 2016 election moved some Democratic House members toward backing impeachment. But Green cited the president's recent attacks on four liberal congresswomen of color, whom he told to "go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.
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