Mr. Richmond votes no. Mr. Jeffries votes no. Mr. Cicilliny votes no. Thank you for joining us tonight. This is Roll Call Vote under way right now. Were watching this historic impeachment proceeding under way in congress. If youve been watching today and into tonight you know that in technical terms this is what tay call a markup which means the Judiciary Committee is there to change or fine tune the articles of impeachment against President Trump before a final vote. In reality what todays proceedings have been is an opportunity for democrats to make the case for impeaching President Trump, and its been an opportunity for republicans to criticize democrats for that and to try to derail the proceedings however they can. This committee started work at 9 00 this morning. We expect that a final vote on the Impeachment Articles could come as soon as this hour, but we really dont know just when itll happen. Tonight republicans are
continuing to offer up what are basically sort of stunt amen
republicans proposed weren t all that coherent, so it d be hard to say exactly what those were about. but regardless whether those were coherent arguments or not, all of the republican amendments have been designed to basically stop the impeachment process or at least to slow it down. republicans have due process rights here, but they re not going to win any of these votes as long as what they re votes are about is trying to undo the process of bringing these impeachment articles against the president. so all the republican amendments thus far have all suffered the same fate. that s what we ve seen the same basic shampoo routine all day long. speeches, then more speeches then more speeches, then occasionally a little excitement but there s an interpretation and that precipitates some arguing and a republican member of the committee would propose a coherent or not particularly coherent amendment to the impeachment art krls and more