Today, 18 December 2019 is an historic day for these United States.

We gather today under the dome of this temple of democracy to exercise one of the most

solemn powers that this body can take, the impeachment of the President of the United

States.

146 days after President Trump called up Ukrainian President Zelensky and asked for a favor.

128 days after an anonymous whistleblower filed complaint accusing the President of

using the power of his office to solicit interference from a foreign country into the 2020 election.

After weeks of congressional hearings, witnesses, the House drew up articles, it has impeached

the 45th President of the United States, Donald John Trump.

On this vote, the A's are 230.

The A's are 197.

Present is 1.

Article 1 is adopted.

So both articles of impeachment passed in separate votes.

And almost every Democrat voted yes, as did independent Justin Amash, who left the Republican

Party earlier this year.

No current Republicans voted yes, though.

And joining the Republicans to vote no were Democrat Colin Peterson of Minnesota and

Representative Jeff Vandrew of New Jersey, who is in the process of switching from the

Democratic to the Republican Party.

Andrew Prokop, politics box, was there anything particularly surprising about how the final

vote was called?

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