The first impeachment vote
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🗓️ 31 October 2019
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| 0:00.0 | It's a big day in Washington DC. |
| 0:11.8 | It's Halloween. |
| 0:16.2 | The Nationals won the World Series for the first time ever. |
| 0:21.4 | Go Expos. |
| 0:22.4 | And the Impicemen Inquiry is official. |
| 0:35.1 | On this vote, the A's are 232. |
| 0:38.8 | The Nays are 196. |
| 0:42.0 | The resolution is adopted without objection. |
| 0:44.9 | The motion to reconsider is laid upon the table. |
| 0:49.7 | Madam Speaker, I rise in strong support of House resolution 660. |
| 0:55.0 | I rise in strong support, but I do not take any pleasure in the events that have made this |
| 0:59.7 | process necessary. |
| 1:03.8 | I think the gentleman, Madam Speaker, trying to put a ribbon on a sham process doesn't |
| 1:07.6 | make it any less of a sham. |
| 1:11.6 | Andrew Procott Politics Vox. |
| 1:13.9 | What does this mean? |
| 1:15.9 | It is now official and maybe already was official, but now it's extra official. |
| 1:23.9 | What does that mean? |
| 1:25.5 | Well, so today was the first full vote taken by the House of Representatives related to |
| 1:31.5 | the impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump. |
| 1:35.5 | And it's not a vote about impeaching Trump. |
| 1:38.4 | It was a procedural vote on how the impeachment inquiry will work going forward. |
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