Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that upon adoption by the House, the Speaker of the House is required to transmit without delay articles of impeachment to the Senate and must do so immediately.

H. Res. 780 · 116th Congress · Jan 8, 2020 · Lineage

RESOLUTION

That the House of Representatives—

(1)

finds that—

(A)

the Constitution obligates the House of Representatives to transmit without delay articles of impeachment to the Senate upon adoption by the House; and

(B)

the Speaker of the House of Representatives refusal to transmit articles of impeachment to the Senate is an abuse of power;

(2)

strongly disapproves of the Speaker of the House of Representatives unilateral and unwarranted decision to refuse to transmit the 2 articles of impeachment adopted on December 18, 2019, by a majority of the House in an attempt to improperly control impeachment trial procedures in the Senate; and

(3)

demands the Speaker immediately transmit the articles of impeachment to the Senate to allow it to exercise its “sole Power to try all Impeachments.”.

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Jan 8, 2020viewing Introduced in House Mr. Meadows (for himself, Mr. Biggs, Mr. Graves of Louisiana, Mr. Norman, Mr. Weber of Texas, Mr. Murphy of North Carolina, Mr. Timmons, Mr. Gooden, Mr. Armstrong, Mr. Griffith, Mr. Cline, Mr. Rodney Davis of Illinois, Mr. Walker, Mr. John W. Rose of Tennessee, Mr. Marshall, Mr. Gibbs, Mrs. Lesko, Mr. Gianforte, Mr. Higgins of Louisiana, Mr. Yoho, Mr. Schweikert, Mr. Spano, Mr. Meuser, Mr. Gohmert, and Mr. Riggleman) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Ethics, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that upon adoption by the House, the Speaker of the House is required to transmit without delay articles of impeachment to the Senate and must do so immediately.

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