House Intelligence Committee to work through recess, could hold hearing about impeachment next Friday
Members of the House Intelligence Committee are planning to return to Washington next week despite a scheduled congressional recess, and may hold a hearing next Friday, as Democrats move swiftly in their impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her leadership team have agreed to press ahead with an impeachment inquiry that’s squarely focused on the Ukraine scandal engulfing Trump and some of his senior officials — allegations that have unified their fractious caucus against Trump in a way that previous ones have not.
Michael Atkinson, the intelligence community’s inspector general, previously said the complaint was both urgent and credible. The whistleblower, meanwhile, is awaiting legal guidance from the office of the director of national intelligence regarding what he or she is permitted to tell lawmakers.
But Democratic Caucus Chairman Hakeem Jeffries stressed that House investigators, particularly within the Intelligence panel, would be “very active” over the next two weeks. “When I said it needs to happen before the end of the year, people started laughing, saying it’s going to happen much faster than that,” Khanna added.
As the House moves ahead with its impeachment inquiry, top Democrats have increasingly discussed the possibility of pursuing “obstruction of Congress” as part of potential articles of impeachment, including during a closed-door meeting on Monday with committee chairs. “The president has now had a long lineage of obstruction of Congress,” she said, pointing to the Trump administration’s refusal to initially turn over the whistleblower complaint and the stonewalling by Trump confidants like his former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski and former White House Counsel Don McGahn.
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