They are voting on HR 41, which is to force consideration of HR 24 and set rules for the House during that consideration.
HR 24 is the impeachment bill. The text of HR 41 should explain much of what can/will happen during debate on HR 24.
If HR 24 passes, the president will be "Impeached". The House will then transmit the Articles of Impeachment to the Senate, and the Senate will have to decide if the Senate will try the case. Only after such a trial, and an affirmative vote of 2/3 of the Senate, will the President be removed.
Maybe a ceremonial one, if any. He may get to vote in certain circumstances of tied votes, but he does not get to vote at the trial - he wouldn't need to anyway, it's 2/3 vote required.
The Chief Justice of SCOTUS will preside over any trial.
Nice explanation. I wonder if there is enough time for any of this? Don't they need some debate in the house regarding the "charges"? Then it goes to the senate for trial. There are only a few working days before Jan. 20th. Is that enough time to even start a trial?
The House made a show of all that when they Impeached Trump last time. This time, they have dispensed with the showboating and facade. Some of the (R)'s who spoke last night and today pointed that out on the record, too.
The Senate is in recess, in such a way that (to my understanding) in order to prevent shenanigans by Senators who {{haven't taken the long slow horse and buggy ride home and}} remain in DC, all 100 Senators must call the Senate back into session, or they must wait until the next scheduled day of business which (I believe) is January 19.
They are voting on HR 41, which is to force consideration of HR 24 and set rules for the House during that consideration.
HR 24 is the impeachment bill. The text of HR 41 should explain much of what can/will happen during debate on HR 24.
If HR 24 passes, the president will be "Impeached". The House will then transmit the Articles of Impeachment to the Senate, and the Senate will have to decide if the Senate will try the case. Only after such a trial, and an affirmative vote of 2/3 of the Senate, will the President be removed.
Thank you so much fren.
What role, if any, would Pence play in this?
Maybe a ceremonial one, if any. He may get to vote in certain circumstances of tied votes, but he does not get to vote at the trial - he wouldn't need to anyway, it's 2/3 vote required.
The Chief Justice of SCOTUS will preside over any trial.
Nice explanation. I wonder if there is enough time for any of this? Don't they need some debate in the house regarding the "charges"? Then it goes to the senate for trial. There are only a few working days before Jan. 20th. Is that enough time to even start a trial?
The House made a show of all that when they Impeached Trump last time. This time, they have dispensed with the showboating and facade. Some of the (R)'s who spoke last night and today pointed that out on the record, too.
The Senate is in recess, in such a way that (to my understanding) in order to prevent shenanigans by Senators who {{haven't taken the long slow horse and buggy ride home and}} remain in DC, all 100 Senators must call the Senate back into session, or they must wait until the next scheduled day of business which (I believe) is January 19.
Okay, apparently the House just voted to call a vote, and now they are really really voting on HR 41. House procedures are crazy.
Vote #1, ended around 11:30am EST, was "on ordering the previous question", which is to say "do we vote on HR 41 or not?".
Since they voted yes on that, now they are actually voting "On agreeing to the resolution" HR 41.