Speaker McCarthy is urging Republicans to oppose a resolution offered by Rep. Boebert that would force a quick vote to impeach President Biden, arguing that such an important issue should go through the committee process, three GOP sources say.
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But some Republicans predicted that the Boebert resolution did not have enough GOP votes to pass. Moderate Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., said impeachment should go through the committee process and confirmed he would back a Democratic effort to “table,” or set aside, Boebert's resolution. “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. “I feel like it was cheapened in the last Congress, we shouldn’t follow the same footprints."
“I think in the end, it’s gonna be tabled,” he continued. “And I believe in team sports and working together, and this is an individual that I believe is undermining the team.”Boebert's resolution is part of a larger push by the House GOP majority to retaliate against their political enemies. On Wednesday, the GOP-led House will vote on a resolution by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., to censure former Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif.
Leaving Wednesday’s meeting, Greene, a McCarthy ally who has been feuding for months with Boebert, accused the Colorado Republican of copying her own articles of impeachment against Biden.I had already introduced articles of impeachment on Joe Biden for the border, asked her to co-sponsor mine — she didn’t,” Greene complained. “She basically copied my articles and then introduced them and then changed them to a privileged resolution.
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