Christine marcos is a congressional reporter for the hill. She joins us for a look at the rules in the impeachment great. The houses voting on a resolution that deals with impeachment procedures thursday. Why did the House Democratic leadership think the resolution is necessary . This is necessary for the public phase of their inquiry. There are different procedures for the Committee HearingGoing Forward than what regular seat and our viewers were typically seeking congressional Committee Hearings. Typically, you see members of each party alternating, questioning witnesses. For these upcoming hearings, the Intelligence Committee will just be limited to adam schiff and the Top Republican on the committee. As well as committee staff. Democrats are looking for this to mirror the process that is going on behind closed doors right now in these witness depositions. They say that format is more conducive for actually yielding new information from witnesses versus members of Congress Taking turns and not necessarily building a lot of information. Frankly, they may be looking for a soundbite. Any other key details or information we should know about this resolution . One thing that it does that is consistent with past impeachment increase is that it will allow the Minority Party on both committees to request witnesses and documents. They have offered a dozen amendments to expand the powers in these proceedings. Democrats still have veto powers of those requests. Apublicans offered more than dozen amendments trying to expand their powers in these proceedings. They argue they should be allowed equal subpoena power. Democrats argue that would be a rake from typical precedent in the house rules. The House Rules Committee went over the resolution. Republicans also kept saying that they felt that there was a lack of due process for the president so far. How would the resolution address that issue . The resolution under the Judiciary Committee would allow the president and his counsel to attend a judiciary Committee Hearing, present their own evidence and crossexamine witnesses. Thats only limited to the Judiciary Committee. Theres no such provision on the president and counsel to do those things in the intelligence Committee Hearings. Republicans are arguing it should be the same for both committees. They are both conducting hearings in this impeachment inquiry. Why would it be different for judiciary versus intelligence . The Intelligence Committee is involved in the investigation within its parameters of the Intelligence Committee. The whistleblower complaint was by someone in the judiciary and the intelligence community. The Judiciary Committee has restriction over impeachment. The Judiciary Committee is going to be responsible for writing articles of impeachment and debating them in committee and sending them to the house floor for a recommendation. Thats why the Judiciary Committee, democrats say it is the place for the president and his counsel to present their case. As democrats lay out this impeachment process, when will the house Judiciary Committee come into things . As far as Holding Public hearings . Thehe first step is for Intelligence Committee to hold public hearings, release transcripts or witness depositions that have been going on for the past five weeks, and issue a report with the recommendation. After that, they will hand it over to the Judiciary Committee. This could take at least a month. Democrats are aiming to get to the public phase of their inquiry by midnovember. Theoretically, try to wrap up their impeachment inquiry in the house by the end of the year. Some have suggested that is too ambitious and it could potentially go into early next year. It will depend on how quickly they get to these public hearings and how many hearings they hold. That is something we will have to watch unfold. The clinton impeachment was 55 days in 1998. 60 days left in this year before the end of 2019. As far as the vote on thursday, are you expecting a partyline vote . Will any democrats cross over to vote no or vice versa . At least one democrat has said they will vote against this. Jeff van drew from new jersey. He represents the district at President Trump carried in 2016 by under five points. Hes one of the few democrats that has yet to actually endorse the impeachment inquiry. He has said he doesnt believe this quite warrants the level of impeachment. He thinks it is distasteful, the things trump has done. He is not ready to cross that line. He says its another step towards impeachment. He says this resolution is inconsistent with his position. There are a couple of other frontline democrats who also are in trump districts and are very vulnerable next year. At least two of them have said that they will come forward and support this resolution. They argue, its a way to ensure transparency for the rest of this impeachment inquiry. There are a few who have not said how they will vote. It will be a nail biter tomorrow to see how they will vote. Christina marcos, we will continue to follow your reporting. Thank you for your time. Thank you for having me. Cspans washington journal live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. Coming up this morning, we are getting your reaction all morning to the house voting on the impeachment resolution. Join the conversation all morning with your calls, facebook comments, text messages, and tweets. Be sure to watch washington journal live at 7 00 eastern this morning. Today, the houses back at 9 00 a. M. Eastern to consider the next phase of the impeachment inquiry against President Trump by taking up a resolution that affirms the committees work so far and any additional procedures in the future including the possibility