WASHINGTON – The House voted to kill a measure seeking to impeach President Donald Trump — the first vote on such a measure since Democrats took the majority and since the release of former special counsel Robert Mueller's report on Russian interference in the 2016 election.
The articles, included in a resolution by Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, were filed Tuesday evening and declare that Trump is "unfit to be president, unfit to represent the American values of decency and morality, respectability and civility, honesty and propriety, reputability and integrity."
The vote forced Democrats to take on the issue of impeachment and go on the record as to whether they support taking it up in the House after months of speculation over how Democrats would respond to the findings outlined in Mueller's report.
Many expected lawmakers to get around the full vote on impeachment by either referring the resolution to the House Judiciary Committee, where impeachment proceeding would have to start, or simply tabling the measure — effectively killing it.
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