Dems join vote to kill impeachment measure
WASHINGTON – The House voted to kill a measure seeking to impeach President Donald Trump – the first vote on such a measure since Democrats took the majority and since the release of former special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian interference in the 2016 election.
The 332-95 vote included a majority of Democrats voting along with Republicans to kill the measure – a win for conservatives and the president, who touted the effort’s failure on Twitter. The 95 Democrats who voted against casting aside the measure showed there has been an increase in support for taking up the question.
The articles, included in a resolution by Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, were filed Tuesday evening and declare that Trump is “unfit to be president, unfit to represent the American values of decency and morality, respectability and civility, honesty and propriety, reputability and integrity.”
The measure would have required Democrats to go on the record on whether they support taking up impeachment in the House.
Trump highlighted the failure in a series of posts to Twitter, where he characterized the vote as the definitive end of any possible impeachment effort or inquiry. “Impeachment of your President, who has led the Greatest Economic BOOM in the history of our Country, the best job numbers, biggest tax reduction, rebuilt military and much more, is now OVER,” Trump said. “This should never be allowed to happen to another President of the United States again!”
Green has sought to bring articles of impeachment for a vote on the floor twice before.