[CitizensTruth] Bush Impeachment bill to be voted on today!

[Hal Snyder]

And so it went. But now the Congressional Record contains the body of  
a 35-count indictment of G.W. Bush. And the Bush impeachment  
resolution (H RES 1258) is not dead, it's in committee - judiciary if  
I read things right.

Hal

UPDATE
The AP reports that in a 251-166 vote, "House members dispatched the  
measure to a committee on Wednesday - a procedure often used to kill  
legislation."


See how the people's representatives voted:
House Vote #401 (Jun 11, 2008)
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote.xpd?vote=h2008-401

On Jun 11, 2008, at 12:52 PM, Chuck Minne wrote:

> Kucinich Forces Vote On Bush's Impeachment

>

> By Ben Pershing

> washingtonpost.com Staff Writer

> Wednesday, June 11, 2008; Page A02

>

> Kucinich, upon introducing his articles of impeachment Monday  

> evening, insisted on reading the resolution into the Congressional  

> Record, a process that took nearly five hours. He finished reading  

> it late yesterday after the close of legislative business.

> As they have previously, Democratic leaders staunchly oppose  

> Kucinich's impeachment effort. They expect to table the resolution  

> by referring it to the Judiciary Committee, where they expect it to  

> die....



> Robin Migalla <rmigalla at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Hi Jay,

>

> This is a very important question. I didn't know this until I saw the

> interview on C-SPAN (Washington Journal) this morning with the  

> Editor of

> "The Hill." He explained it, but unfortunately I didn't give it my  

> full

> attention. It has something to do with the way Kucinich introduced the

> bill using a special prioritization procedure that enabled him to  

> bypass

> normal channels. I think he did this to bypass Pelosi, but I  

> couldn't say

> for sure. Anyway, I think the source is reliable. If you want to  

> see it

> for yourself, I think C-SPAN repeats Washington Journal at some point

> during the day. The interview was the very first part of the show this

> morning that aired at 6:00am Central Time.

>

> Cheers,

> Robin

>

> -----Original Message-----

> From: Jay Becker [SMTP:futurenotwritten at yahoo.com]

> Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 08:39

> To: Robin Migalla

> Subject: Re: [CitizensTruth] Bush Impeachment bill to be voted on  

> today!

>

> Hi, Robin--

>

> Do you have a source on that? I'm no scholar of congressional  

> procedure but

> I think a bill has to go to committee and be voted out of it,  

> meaning a

> majority of the committee(s) has to approve it before it goes to  

> the floor

> of the House. Maybe there's a committee vote today? I'm skeptical  

> of that

> too,though, since one of the means of blocking any impeachment  

> effort has

> been to refuse to set up committee hearings. But like I said, I don't

> follow all that down to the nits and grits so maybe someone else  

> can find

> out what's going on here....

>

> Jay

>

> Declare It Now! Wear Orange!

> Impeach Bush & Cheney for War Crimes

> & Crimes against Humanity!

>

>

> --- On Wed, 6/11/08, Robin Migalla <rmigalla at earthlink.net> wrote:

> From: Robin Migalla <rmigalla at earthlink.net>

> Subject: [CitizensTruth] Bush Impeachment bill to be voted on today!

> To: "'citizenstruth at six.pairlist.net'"

> <citizenstruth at six.pairlist.net>

> Date: Wednesday, June 11, 2008, 6:54 AM

>

> Hello Folks,

>

> Hopefully, all of you get your news from somewhere other than main  

> stream

> media. If not, you may not be aware that a bill to impeach Bush (35

> counts) was introduced on Monday by Dennis Kucinich. This bill will be

> going to vote TODAY. Please call your Congressional Representative  

> to tell

> them you support this bill.

>

> Thanks,

> Robin

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