“That doesn’t mean we’re voting on it,” Representative Rashida Tlaib said. “It means we’re beginning the process to look at some of these alleged claims of impeachable offenses.”
House Democrats welcomed Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s latest remarks on tamping down calls for President Donald Trump’s impeachment, including some who had already sought to remove him from office, telling Newsweek that Congress must continue its investigations and await special counsel Robert Mueller’s final report.
But Representative Rashida Tlaib, the freshman Michigan Democrat who had told supporters, “We’re gonna go in there and impeach the motherf***er” and has continued to call for Trump's impeachment, said she planned to move forward with introducing a House resolution to “begin investigating the impeachable offenses” of the president.
“What you all should know is Speaker Pelosi always tells us new members, 'represent your district.’ And that’s what I’ve been doing,” she told reporters following the party’s weekly caucus meeting. “Speaker Pelosi has never told me to stop or do anything differently—ever. I know it’s hard to believe, but it’s very true.”
“The freshmen who are pushing for impeachment, they know very well that it’s a two-step process,” Bass said. “But I think they’re responding to their base, they’re responding to their constituents.” Representative Steve Cohen, a progressive Democrat on the Judiciary Committee who had already introduced an impeachment resolution in November, backed Pelosi’s stance. Although believing Trump had “violated the Constitution and the office,” Cohen told Newsweek he realized that “nevertheless, the party is not looking that direction.”
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