Their growing preoccupupation with ALL things Trump, which ARE, mostly outside the Presidential norm and sometimes illegal and the Republican majority in the US Senate does not absolve them of their responsibility to actually try to govern….
Congress will be back in session for about a month before they break for the winter holiday’s….
There is legislative work to be done and Donald Trump will be out there running his mouth and twitter feed…
House Democrats returning to the Capitol this week face a growing dilemma over how to keep focus on their legislative agenda amid an escalating series of investigations of President Trump.
Caucus support for impeachment has only grown since lawmakers were last in Washington in late July, but many, particularly “majority makers” in competitive districts, want to spend more energy on policy matters such as gun reform and health care.
Democrats opened a series of new investigative fronts over the six-week summer recess going beyond the scope of former special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian election interference and Trump’s attempts to undermine the probe — all under the specter of impeachment…
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It’s all part of an effort to depict Trump as abusing the power of his office as Judiciary Democrats weigh whether to recommend articles of impeachment before the 2020 election cycle gets underway.
“What we’re confronted with now is that the president is basically converted the presidency into a money-making operation and instrument of self-enrichment,” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), a member of the Judiciary and Oversight committees, said on MSNBC’s “MTP Daily.”
While a majority of the Democratic caucus now supports the impeachment process in some form — whether by backing an impeachment investigation or expressing readiness to vote to impeach now — there are still some key holdouts.
Most Democrats in swing districts remain reluctant to weigh in on impeachment, despite facing pressure from liberal activists at town halls over the recess. Only 13 of the 55 Democrats on the House GOP’s target list have publicly backed beginning the impeachment process….
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….the clashes with the Trump administration in oversight battles are sure to draw attention away from Democrats’ legislative efforts, which will mostly be stalled in the Senate.