Friday, November 22, 2019

In Their Rush to Impeachment, Pelosi and Schiff Overlooked One Little Thing, McCarthy Found It

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., talks to reporters about the release by the White House of a transcript of a call between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Voldymyr Zelenskiy, in which Trump is said to have pushed for Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his family, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2019.

In December 2018, the soon-to-be Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, was busy making changes in the House rules for the incoming 116th Congress.

At the time, The Conservative Treehouse's "Sundance" wrote, "Remember when we warned that a convergence of left-wing groups, activists, DNC donors and specifically the Lawfare team, would align with incoming Democrat leadership to construct a road-map for the"resistance" priorities? Well, exactly that planned and coordinated outcome is visible as incoming Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi presents her new rules for the 116th congress.

It appears there was one House rule Pelosi forgot to change and it may come back to bite them.

In a letter to Rep. Adam Schiff, signed by the Republican members of the House Intelligence Committee, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy informs the chairman they are exercising their right to "Convene a hearing with witnesses selected by the Minority to testify in the Democrats'"impeachment inquiry.

House Rule XI, Clause 1(a)(1)(A) states that "the Rules of the House are the rules of its committees and subcommittees so far as applicable.

" House Rule XI, Clause 2(j)(1) provides that "the minority members of the committee shall be entitled, upon request to the chair by a majority of them before the completion of the hearing, to call witnesses selected by the minority to testify" Notably, this rule was not displaced by H. Res.

https://www.redstate.com/elizabeth-vaughn/2019/11/22/rush-impeachment-pelosi-schiff-overlooked-one-little-thing-mccarthy-found/

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