Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer on Wednesday laid out Democrats' plans to quickly dispose of the impeachment articles against Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas as early as later in the day.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., talks withreporters to discuss efforts to pass the final set of spending bills to avoid a partial government shutdown, at the Capitol in Washington, March 20, 2024. The race is on for Congress to …Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer on Wednesday laid out Democrats’ plans to quickly dispose of the impeachment articles against Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas as early as later in the day.
“To accommodate the wishes of our Republican Senate colleagues, I will seek an agreement for a period of debate time that would allow Republicans to offer a vote on trial resolutions, allow for Republicans to offer points of order and then move to dismiss,” the New York Democrat said in remarks on the Senate floor.
He added, “Impeachment should never, ever be used to settle policy disagreements that would set a disastrous precedent for the Congress and could throw our system of checks and balances into endless cycles of chaos.”
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