Commentary: Congress needs to create a ‘Truth and Reconciliation’ process
Published: 1/16/2021 6:00:05 AM
If tradition holds (and who knows about that anymore), on a cold night this February Joe Biden will motorcade from his new home at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. up Capitol Hill, and a new House sergeant-at-arms will proclaim, “Madame Speaker, the president of the United States!”
In front of that so-familiar flag, the 46th president will ask a joint session of Congress for unprecedented, bipartisan help in facing the worst domestic crises since FDR and the Great Depression – a race to vaccinate millions of Americans as thousands die daily, amid food lines of the many unable to work.
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Pelosi said the nine impeachment managers she tapped to lead the Democrats case against Trump are now working on taking this to trial. And . you ll be the first to know when we announce that we re going over there, she told reporters in the Capitol.
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The comments arrive amid a disagreement within the Democratic caucus over the best strategy for sending the impeachment article to the Senate.
Many Democrats, including House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer My expectation is we will send it as quickly as it s ready to go, Hoyer said Wednesday.
Yet others, such a Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.), have advocated for holding the article on the House side for enough time to allow President-elect Joe Biden