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Discussion Thread: House Judiciary Committee Debates Articles of Impeachment – Day 2 - 12/12/2019 | Part II - Politics

Discussion Thread: House Judiciary Committee Debates Articles of Impeachment – Day 2 - 12/12/2019 | Part II - Politics


Discussion Thread: House Judiciary Committee Debates Articles of Impeachment – Day 2 - 12/12/2019 | Part II

Posted: 12 Dec 2019 09:20 AM PST

This morning House Judiciary Committee members reconvene to debate the two Articles of Impeachment against President Trump, which were introduced Tuesday by House Leaders

Last night the Committee convened in order for all members to present opening statements. Today, however, is expected to be much more animated, with members free to offer amendments, which the Committee is required to consider. The hearing is expected to last throughout the day, with a vote possible some time this evening.


The hearing is scheduled to begin at 9:00am EST. You can watch live online on

  • CSPAN

  • More live feeds tbd

You can also listen online via


The articles announced were Abuse of Power and Obstruction of Congress

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Report: Trump’s Ukraine Extortion Scheme Was Financed by Russia

Posted: 12 Dec 2019 06:51 AM PST

Fox News host Chris Wallace escalated the network's war with Trump, blaming him for the 'most direct sustained assault' on press freedom in US history

Posted: 12 Dec 2019 04:33 AM PST

Trump Attacks Greta Thunberg on Twitter, Says She Must Work on 'Anger Management Problem' -- Thunberg, the 16-year-old Swede who inspired millions of young people to take action against climate change, was named Time Magazine's Person of the Year for 2019 the day before

Posted: 12 Dec 2019 04:51 AM PST

Betsy DeVos ignored her own staff, forced students defrauded by for-profit colleges to pay | DeVos overruled findings calling for full debt relief. Now she wants to gut the debt relief program entirely

Posted: 12 Dec 2019 03:21 AM PST

People share Melania Trump's anti-bullying 'Be Best' slogan after President mocks teenager Greta Thunberg

Posted: 12 Dec 2019 08:05 AM PST

House Republicans' Trump impeachment strategy was simple: Distract, deceive and yell | GOP lawmakers have treated the hearings like Fox New segments, delivering loud, rambling monologues in a deliberate attempt to wear down participants and viewers.

Posted: 12 Dec 2019 02:57 AM PST

Trump gets more foreign policy ideas from Fox News host Tucker Carlson than his actual advisers, Steve Bannon claims

Posted: 12 Dec 2019 03:54 AM PST

Congress Learns Pentagon Wasted $1 Trillion, Promptly Gives It Bigger Budget

Posted: 12 Dec 2019 06:06 AM PST

McConnell’s plan for sham trial reveals depths of Trump’s corruption

Posted: 12 Dec 2019 06:58 AM PST

Bernie Sanders could be the most underestimated 2020 candidate, as he surges in the polls and nabs big-name endorsements 2 months after a heart attack

Posted: 12 Dec 2019 06:50 AM PST

FBI agents warn of 'chilling effect' from Trump and Barr attacks

Posted: 12 Dec 2019 05:07 AM PST

Trump launches snide attack on Greta Thunberg after she beats him to Time Person of the Year

Posted: 12 Dec 2019 05:52 AM PST

Ocasio-Cortez Makes Connection Between 20% Jump in Healthcare Costs and Industry-Sponsored Spa Days for Congressional Staffers: “This is the healthcare system of 'choice' that so many politicians are committed to protecting."

Posted: 12 Dec 2019 07:41 AM PST

Former Attorney General Eric Holder Shreds William Barr as "Unfit" "Incapable"

Posted: 12 Dec 2019 03:54 AM PST

President Pays Gigantic Fine for Stealing From Charity

Posted: 12 Dec 2019 06:59 AM PST

Discussion Thread: House Judiciary Committee Debates Articles of Impeachment – Day 2 - 12/12/2019 | Live - 9:00am EST

Posted: 12 Dec 2019 05:01 AM PST

This morning House Judiciary Committee members reconvene to debate the two Articles of Impeachment against President Trump, which were introduced Tuesday by House Leaders

Last night the Committee convened in order for all members to present opening statements. Today, however, is expected to be much more animated, with members free to offer amendments, which the Committee is required to consider. The hearing is expected to last throughout the day, with a vote possible some time this evening.


The hearing is scheduled to begin at 9:00am EST. You can watch live online on

  • CSPAN

  • More live feeds tbd

You can also listen online via


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Trump mocks teen climate activist Greta Thunberg after she wins Time Person of the Year

Posted: 12 Dec 2019 05:23 AM PST

Lawmaker to GOP: Wake up! Stop protecting corrupt president

Posted: 12 Dec 2019 06:26 AM PST

AT&T Said Trump Tax Cuts Would Create Thousands Of Jobs - Instead, AT&T's Laying Off Thousands

Posted: 12 Dec 2019 08:15 AM PST

Bernie Sanders Should Be Democrats' First Choice

Posted: 12 Dec 2019 08:43 AM PST

Judge allows lawsuit seeking Trump-Putin call records

Posted: 12 Dec 2019 01:19 AM PST

'Atrocious': 188 Democrats Join GOP to Hand Trump $738 Billion Military Budget That Includes 'Space Force' - "It is Orwellian for Congress to hand over billions of dollars worth of weapons and bombs to a president waging a horrific, unconstitutional war in Yemen—and call that progressive."

Posted: 12 Dec 2019 04:43 AM PST

DOJ IG Michael Horowitz: Investigation into anti-Clinton FBI leaks “continues to this day”; Horowitz is still investigating apparent FBI leaks to Rudy Giuliani, meant to damage Clinton, days before election

Posted: 12 Dec 2019 03:57 AM PST

H.Res.759 - Expressing that it is the sense of the House of Representatives that the Russian Federation interfered in the 2016 United States Presidential election and deliberately spread false information to implicate the Republic of Ukraine.

Posted: 11 Dec 2019 08:21 PM PST

H.Res.757 - Calling for the resignation and disbarment of United States Attorney General William P. Barr, and for other purposes.

Posted: 11 Dec 2019 06:50 PM PST

Indian military deployed and internet shut down as protests rage against citizenship bill - All news

Indian military deployed and internet shut down as protests rage against citizenship bill - All news


Indian military deployed and internet shut down as protests rage against citizenship bill

Posted: 12 Dec 2019 04:03 AM PST

Egyptian anti-circumcision group calls for an end to 'male genital mutilation'

Posted: 11 Dec 2019 06:25 PM PST

ICE sued for ending immigrant hotline seen in 'Orange Is the New Black'

Posted: 11 Dec 2019 07:16 PM PST

Chicago prosecutor to vacate 1,000 marijuana convictions

Posted: 11 Dec 2019 02:39 PM PST

Underpaid Janitors Use Basel Banana in Protest: "A Banana Is Worth More Than Us"

Posted: 11 Dec 2019 04:06 PM PST

Krispy Kreme, Panera Bread owner to give $5M to Holocaust survivors over family's Nazi ties. The Reimann family learned that their ancestors used forced laborers in their factory under the Nazis during World War II.

Posted: 11 Dec 2019 11:10 PM PST

Chinese Troops enter 12 km inside India in Arunachal : Tapir Gao

Posted: 12 Dec 2019 03:44 AM PST

Charges dropped, brothers in hemp-pot mixup look to sue NYC

Posted: 12 Dec 2019 06:07 AM PST

Female TV reporter seeks criminal charges against man who slapped her backside on camera

Posted: 11 Dec 2019 12:07 PM PST

Philadelphia officer arrested after video shows him punching a handcuffed man

Posted: 12 Dec 2019 08:37 AM PST

New York City college student found with fatal stab wounds in Manhattan park

Posted: 12 Dec 2019 04:52 AM PST

Head of the US Federal Aviation Administration admitted that mistakes were made in approving Boeing's 737 Max plane for flight, before two deadly crashes involving the aircraft

Posted: 12 Dec 2019 02:11 AM PST

Attorneys for alleged Weinstein victim reject tentative settlement

Posted: 11 Dec 2019 09:10 PM PST

'I'm Santa Claus': Man hacks Ring camera in 8-year-old girl's bedroom, taunts her

Posted: 12 Dec 2019 07:12 AM PST

Jersey City shootout investigators are checking killers' ties to a previous killing and anti-Semitic writings

Posted: 12 Dec 2019 08:48 AM PST

Police: Dad with history of fatal accidental shooting charged in 2nd accidental shooting of daughter, 9

Posted: 11 Dec 2019 12:08 PM PST

Jeff Bezos' spaceflight company, Blue Origin, has now flown and landed the same rocket booster six times.

Posted: 12 Dec 2019 08:13 AM PST

Major fire breaks out on unlucky Russian aircraft carrier

Posted: 12 Dec 2019 05:38 AM PST

Clinics where majority of US patients get abortions are rapidly closing: Report

Posted: 11 Dec 2019 01:58 PM PST

Vatican uses donations for poor to fight budget deficit, report says

Posted: 11 Dec 2019 03:04 PM PST

Pakistan protest: Patients die as lawyers ransack Lahore hospital

Posted: 12 Dec 2019 05:50 AM PST

Wednesday, December 11, 2019

Doctors with flu shots for migrant children turned away from Calif. facility; 6 arrested - All news

Doctors with flu shots for migrant children turned away from Calif. facility; 6 arrested - All news


Doctors with flu shots for migrant children turned away from Calif. facility; 6 arrested

Posted: 11 Dec 2019 04:39 AM PST

Greta Thunberg is Time's 2019 Person of the Year

Posted: 11 Dec 2019 04:48 AM PST

Jersey City shooting: Kosher grocery store "targeted" by suspects, mayor says

Posted: 11 Dec 2019 05:10 AM PST

U of Phoenix agrees to cancel $141 million in student loan debt

Posted: 11 Dec 2019 08:49 AM PST

Sex offender's wife owns daycare, offender lives next door

Posted: 11 Dec 2019 04:47 AM PST

Tennessee Deputy indicted on 44 criminal charges

Posted: 11 Dec 2019 08:05 AM PST

Fox Nation host Britt McHenry files sexual harassment lawsuit against Fox News

Posted: 10 Dec 2019 03:42 PM PST

Federal judge blocks $3.6 billion transfer to border wall

Posted: 10 Dec 2019 04:48 PM PST

Suicide bombers strike main US military base in Afghanistan, injuring 87

Posted: 11 Dec 2019 08:12 AM PST

Cuba Gooding Jr. accused by seven more women of sexual misconduct

Posted: 10 Dec 2019 06:25 PM PST

Prince Andrew accuser's chilling tweet as Epstein's alleged 'pimp' reportedly prepares to give interview

Posted: 11 Dec 2019 09:09 AM PST

U.S. Army will fund rare earths plant for weapons development

Posted: 11 Dec 2019 06:34 AM PST

Two police officers shot as gunmen open fire in Jersey City

Posted: 10 Dec 2019 10:34 AM PST

New Zealand orders 1.2 million sq cm of skin from US to treat volcano patients

Posted: 11 Dec 2019 12:57 AM PST

Jersey City Shooting: Suspect Linked to Black Hebrew Israelite Group

Posted: 11 Dec 2019 09:38 AM PST

New Zealand orders 1,292 square feet of skin for volcano victims

Posted: 11 Dec 2019 05:38 AM PST

World's first' fully-electric commercial flight takes off

Posted: 11 Dec 2019 06:56 AM PST

Russian Murder Suspect Gets Stuck in Court Ceiling in Botched Escape Attempt

Posted: 11 Dec 2019 05:14 AM PST

Hong Kong democracy protester says he was ambushed by masked Chinese men in Australia

Posted: 10 Dec 2019 05:38 PM PST

China, Turkey jail more journalists than any other country: report

Posted: 11 Dec 2019 06:27 AM PST

Nearly 175 Saudi military aviation students grounded in U.S. after base shooting

Posted: 10 Dec 2019 11:53 AM PST

North Carolina pastor who decried sexually abusive clerics accused of sexually abusing a minor

Posted: 10 Dec 2019 03:17 PM PST

Man accused of slapping reporter's bottom on live TV says he got "caught up in the moment"

Posted: 11 Dec 2019 08:44 AM PST