Now it's happening in the House. Chairman breaks with Speaker over withholding articles. https://t.co/5vng4defLA
— Byron York (@ByronYork) January 9, 2020
He later flipped back to Pelosi but just more cracks in the Pelosi effort.
Via Fox News:
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is facing rising pressure to transmit articles of impeachment against President Trump to the Senate, as members of her own party signal they are losing patience with her delay tactics.
Pelosi, D-Calif., indicated to Democratic colleagues this week that she plans to continue to hold onto articles of impeachment, at least until Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., releases a resolution outlining the terms for a Senate trial.
But on both sides of Capitol Hill, several Democrats are saying it’s time for the trial — on allegations of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress — to proceed in the Senate.
House Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith, D-Wash., was the latest influential figure to deliver that message Thursday morning — before he reversed himself just a few hours later.
“I understand what the speaker is trying to do, basically trying to use the leverage of that to work with Democratic and Republican senators to try to get a reasonable trial—a trial that would actually show evidence and bring out witnesses. But at the end of the day, just like we control it in the House, Mitch McConnell controls it in the Senate,” Smith said on CNN’s “New Day” on Thursday.