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Pelosi Still Holding Impeachment Articles, Wants Clarity on Trial Rules

Ken Bredemeier

   House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursdaythatshe probably would soon
   send two articles of impeachment targeting President Donald Trump to
   the Senate so his trial can start, butsheagain demanded that Senate
   Republican leader Mitch McConnell first tell her therules for the
   trial.

   "At some point we would hope to see what the terms of engagement will
   be," Pelosi, leader of the Democrat-controlled House of
   Representatives, told reporters. "As I've said right from the start,we
   need to see the arena in which we are sending our managers. Is that too
   much to ask?"

   The House last month approved the impeachment articles, accusing Trump
   of abusing the office of the presidency by pressing Ukraine to launch
   an investigation of one of his chief 2020 Democratic challengers,
   former Vice President Joe Biden, and obstructing congressional efforts
   to investigatethepresident'sUkraine-related actions.

   Testimony sought

   But the start of Trump's Senate trial has been delayed as Pelosi has
   held on to the articles of impeachment in aneffort to get McConnell to
   agree to hear testimony from key Trump aides who were directly involved
   with the president as he temporarily withheld $391 million in military
   aid to Ukraine while urging Ukrainian President VolodymyrZelenskiyto
   open the Biden investigation.

   McConnell said this weekthat he hadenough votes in the
   Republican-majority Senate to proceed with the trial, assuming
   Pelosiwere to handover the articles of impeachment, without agreeing at
   the outset to subpoena witnesses and key documents related to Trump's
   dealings with Ukraine. McConnell saidthe 100-member Senate, after
   hearing House members make their case against Trump and hearing the
   president's defense, couldthen decide whether to call witnesses.
   

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