{"id":2664,"date":"2007-11-06T15:49:21","date_gmt":"2007-11-06T20:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2664"},"modified":"2007-11-06T18:29:46","modified_gmt":"2007-11-06T23:29:46","slug":"h-res-333-impeach-vice-president-cheney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2664","title":{"rendered":"H. Res 333: Impeach Vice President Cheney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>H. Res 333, introduced by Rep. Dennis Kucinich and co-sponsored by <s>21<\/s> 22 Democrats, &#8220;alleges that Cheney misled Congress regarding pre-war intelligence on Iraq.  It also alleges that he is once again misleading Congress about the need to attack Iran.&#8221;  <a href=\"http:\/\/c-span.org\">C-Span<\/a> is sponsoring <a href=\"http:\/\/kucinich.house.gov\/SpotlightIssues\/documents.htm\">links to documents<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thomas.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/z?d110:HE00333:@@@P\">co-sponsors<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The House is currently voting on a motion to table the resolution.  The session has gone past its 15 minutes of time scheduled and has been underway more than 50 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Impeach Cheney!<\/p>\n<p>Update: Motion to table fails after one hour and ten minutes of voting.  Hoyer asks for resolution to be referred to House Judiciary Committee.<\/p>\n<p>Congressional Quarterly&#8217;s Ed Epstein, interviewed by C-Span, claims that Republicans switched votes from yea to nay on tabling the resolution in order to force a one-hour floor debate, figuring such a debate would embarrass Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>Kucinich on the phone with C-Span has denied Epstein&#8217;s charge that his resolution has nothing to do with impeaching Cheney and everything to do with Kucinich&#8217;s presidential campaign.<\/p>\n<p>C-Span informs viewers that today, Rep. John Conyers warned the resolution would &#8220;cause a split&#8221; and keep legislators from conducting important business.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politicalaffairs.net\/article\/articleview\/6114\/1\/293\/\">Many have surmised that<\/a>, &#8220;Conyers abandoned the impeachment issue because he wanted to be Chair of the Judiciary Committee.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The House has voted to send the resolution to the Judiciary Committee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>H. Res 333, introduced by Rep. Dennis Kucinich and co-sponsored by 21 22 Democrats, &#8220;alleges that Cheney misled Congress regarding pre-war intelligence on Iraq. It also alleges that he is once again misleading Congress about the need to attack Iran.&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2664\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-GY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}