[Republican] Party leaders had also been concerned that low attendance by their members could doom their chances of saving Mr. Hegseth. In the end, though, more Democrats than Republicans missed the vote.
The 11 Democrats who did not vote were Representatives Julia Brownley, Lou Correa and Nancy Pelosi, all of California; Laura Gillen of New York; Steven Horsford of Nevada; Jonathan L. Jackson of Illinois; Brittany Pettersen of Colorado; Melanie Stansbury of New Mexico; Haley Stevens of Michigan; Marilyn Strickland of Washington; and Frederica Wilson of Florida.
The Republicans who did not record a position were Representatives Monica De La Cruz of Texas; Neal Dunn of Florida; Russell Fry of South Carolina; Julia Letlow of Louisiana; Tom Tiffany and Derrick Van Orden, both of Wisconsin; and Rudy Yakym III of Indiana."
Thanks to the Democrats who participated — albeit passively — in saving us from the misguided impeachment ordeal. You won the big election. Do something constructive with it. Something sane.
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"Something sane." That's pretty funny for so early in the morning. The D's are hell-bent on destruction.
Yeah, the odds against "something sane" seem pretty high at the moment. I'm hoping against hope for "something not foolishly destructive to the economy and society as a whole".
Massie is an anti-semite. nothing more.
“You won the big election. Do something constructive with it. Something sane.”
@Athluse, expecting sanity from Democrsts? You must be insane.
Trump lives rent-free in the heads of the TDS-addled 24/7 but it's the rest of us that have a problem. Riiiiigggghhtt.
I can understand why a lot of people have a giant hard-on for Pete Hegseth. He's extremely provocative and at times supercilious. Also he's not the one deciding when or when not to pull the trigger using the great powers of the military forces of the United States of America. That's the responsibility of Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump.
It's quite obvious that once the new Congress is sworn in, they will absolutely impeach him.
There was only one GOP vote against referring to committee - Massie - once again proving his inanity. He’s the one deserving of a damaging rebuke here. Thankful his ouster will be soon.
NYT behind the news on Haley Stevens.
WTH? Being provocative or supercilious is not impeachable.
That's hilarious!! Thinking Democrats will do something sane. Thanks for the laugh!!!
The man resoundingly rejected by his own constituents declares that disagreeing with him means being in thrall to…whatever he doesn’t like.
The left has a hard-on for effectively terrorizing people with their lawfare antics. It’s truly shameful they’d rather distort our legal and political systems to gin up their popularity rather than debate ideas and accept a true vote.
Howard said… That's the responsibility of Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump.**
Sure, Netanyahu ordered to seizure of Maduro. Give it a rest.
Hegseth was partly an impeachment target because he is held in high esteem by the active duty military and many retirees, including me, for cleaning out the political appointments in the flag officer community and restoring appropriate standards. Plus, he is loyal to the military principles defined in the constitution.
One theory on the right (not necessarily mine) is that Hegseth is the biggest obstacle to a "color revolution" because the military must be onboard for such an event to be successful, or at least has been in the recent past. Regardless, impeachment is off the table now thanks to Mr Massie's false start.
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