ZitatRep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., on Wednesday took steps to try to force a vote on his motion to condemn and censure House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., for his "egregiously false and fabricated" reading of President Trump’s July phone call with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky during a hearing last month.
Biggs, who slammed the hearings in the impeachment inquiry into Trump as “Soviet-style proceedings,” brought his resolution to the floor after receiving the support of 135 Republican lawmakers in the lower chamber of Congress.
“We follow rules even when they are represented by the minority party," Biggs said on the House floor. “That’s not happening today. That’s why we have to introduce this motion to censure. No more secret proceedings. No more Soviet-style proceedings.”
The House now has two legislative days to decide when it would debate and vote on Biggs' privileged censure resolution of Schiff. It is assumed, however, that Democrats on Thursday will offer up a motion to table the resolution
Schiff deserves censure, but what I would like to see is Repubs introduce a resolution demanding a formal impeachment inquiry, then watch while the Democrats explain why they won't adopt it.
The military wing of the Democrat Party used to wear white hoods. That has now been replaced with black hoodies.