House Republicans moving quickly to finalize legislation for Wednesday’s expected vote on opening a formal impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden on Tuesday voted against an amendment requiring the inquiry to be “open and transparent,” despite Speaker Mike Johnson’s pledge earlier Tuesday “to undertake this process methodically and transparently.”
Speaker Johnson, pushing for the vote on an impeachment inquiry despite even some House Republicans admitting there is a complete lack of proof of impeachable offenses, published an op-ed in USA Today Tuesday morning.
“Evidence against Biden can’t be ignored. We’re pursuing impeachment inquiry,” the Speaker wrote. “House Republicans understand that to begin to rebuild Americans’ trust in the Congress, we owe it to the people to undertake this process methodically and transparently.”
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On Tuesday in the House Rules Committee meeting drafting the impeachment inquiry, Ranking Member Jim McGovern (D-MA) said, “all we’re asking for is the gentleman to put back in the words ‘open and transparent.’ For some reason Republicans deliberately removed it. None of us can figure out why.”
At that point, Rules Committee Chair Tom Cole (R-OK) called the vote, and Republicans, who have the majority, voted down the amendment to require the impeachment inquiry to be “open and transparent.”
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