Article snippet: Speaker MORE (D-Calif.) on Friday ended weeks of speculation surrounding the Democrats' impeachment effort, announcing the House would vote as early as next week to send a pair of articles to the Senate. The move is indication that the Speaker, who'd delayed the transmission of the articles in an effort to win procedural concessions from Senate GOP leaders, is ready to launch the trial in the upper chamber despite Senate Majority Leader MORE's (R-Ky.) refusal to accept her demands. Yet there are plenty of lingering questions about how the esoteric process will unfold over the next several weeks, as both sides vie for an upper hand in the high-stakes debate over the propriety of MORE’s handling of foreign policy in Ukraine. Here are five outstanding questions as the articles move from the House to the Senate. When, exactly, will the trial begin? While Pelosi on Friday expressed a new willingness to send the Senate the two impeachment resolutions — one charging Trump with abuse of power, the other with obstruction of Congress — she stopped short of scheduling a vote to do so. Instead, she said she’s “asked Judiciary Committee Chairman MORE (D-N.Y.) to be prepared to bring” a procedural measure to the floor “next week” to designate the still unnamed impeachment managers and dispatch the articles to the upper chamber. That resolution could technically be passed in a flash, by unanimous consent, but House Republicans are expected to force a more formal roll-call vo... Link to the full article to read more
Five lingering questions as impeachment heads to Senate | TheHill
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