A historic day in America.

On Wednesday, December 18th, 2019, the U.S. House of Representatives voted for only the third time in history

to impeach the sitting president of the United States.

Here's how the day unfolded.

The House will be in order.

At 9 a.m., the House gabbled into session and very soon thereafter,

the Republicans tried to end the impeachment debate before it even began.

This vote, the A's, or 188, the A's, or 226.

The motion is not adopted.

That motion failed.

Shortly after, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy made a second GOP motion,

this time to condemn the House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff

and Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler for their handling of the impeachment process.

The clerk will report the resolution.

Whereas Chairman Schiff and Chairman Nadler willfully and intentionally violated the rules

of the House of Representatives by abusing and exceeding their powers as Chairman of committees.

Whereas on September 9th, the motion failed.

Though both of those motions together did successfully delay the day's proceedings,

next came an hour of debate over the rules for the debate on the articles of impeachment.

Yes, that's a floor debate over the rules of another floor debate.

I miss it.

Madam Speaker asked for unanimous consent to amend HR 767 to provide for 12 hours of debate

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