Article snippet: House Democrats are debating whether to focus their impeachment inquiry almost exclusively on MORE. But doing so could run the risk of frustrating lawmakers in the 235-member caucus who called for impeachment long before a whistleblower complaint was filed raising concerns about Trump’s interactions with Ukraine. Speaker MORE (D-Calif.) is discussing the idea with her leadership team because some members have pressed her to narrow the scope to the Ukraine controversy, a Democratic leadership aide told The Hill. “We all feel strongly that the process going forward has to be different; it has to be strategic, clear and efficient. And I don’t have a dog in the fight on how the specific structure looks. But I know it has to meet those three criteria,” freshman Rep. MORE (D-Mich.), a centrist who flipped a GOP-held district last year, told reporters Wednesday. “We’ve certainly been expressing our concerns [to Pelosi]. I mean, we’ve all been meeting with different caucus groups, we’ve all been meeting together. We have been expressing ourselves. I mean, we’ve told her directly. And she, I think, she understands and she hears us. But she has a really tough job. You know, she has to balance a very energetic caucus,” said Slotkin, who co-wrote an op-ed in The Washington Post this week with other freshmen endorsing the impeachment process in the wake of Trump’s actions with Ukraine. Some Democrats suggest that limiting the inquiry to Trump pressuring a head of state to inv... Link to the full article to read more
Democrats debate scope of Trump impeachment | TheHill
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