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BigmanPigman

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Fri Dec 13, 2019, 12:21 AM Dec 2019

No Choice' or 'a Sham': Where Every House Member Stands on the Articles of Impeachment

No Choice’ or ‘a Sham’: Where Every House Member Stands on the Articles of Impeachment

By Sarah Almukhtar, Larry Buchanan, Jonathan Corum, Denise Lu, Alicia Parlapiano, Joe Ward and Karen
YourishUpdated Dec. 12, 2019, 6:30 PM ET

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/12/us/politics/trump-impeachment-house-vote-whip-count.html

Support articles of impeachment

Support No Undecided No Response (yet)

Democrats 133 0 10 90
Independents 1 0 0 0
Republicans 0 139 0 58
Total 134 139 10 148
The House Judiciary Committee is expected to vote on articles of impeachment against President Trump on Thursday, ahead of a vote by the full House of Representatives next week. Democrats charged Mr. Trump with abuse of power and obstruction of Congress as they accused him of violating the Constitution by pressuring Ukraine for help in the 2020 election.

The vote is expected to fall along party lines, with no Republicans in support of impeachment (here’s a guide to the impeachment process). The New York Times began surveying members and collecting public statements on the articles on Wednesday.

What Democrats Have Said So Far
Some Democrats have said they are still evaluating the articles of impeachment, but none have come out against them so far......

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