WASHINGTON - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday extended her standoff with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell over starting US President Donald Trump's impeachment trial, insisting she's waiting to see whether Republicans will agree to a"fair" process.
McConnell, Trump and their Republican allies taunted Pelosi over the delay. McConnell said on the Senate floor that Pelosi and House Democrats"may be too afraid to even transmit their shoddy work product to the Senate." "Is the president's case so weak that none of the president's men can defend him under oath?" Schumer said on the Senate floor.
The House had always planned to wait until after a Senate vote scheduled for Thursday on spending Bills before notifying the Senate of impeachment, a step that would force the Senate to drop all other business and take up an impeachment trial. Pelosi didn't specify what conditions or terms she wanted to see in the Senate trial procedures.
Although 10 minutes of floor debate is now required before passage, the House could take this procedural step while lawmakers are away if no member objects. Or it could wait until members return in the first full week of January, the aide said. The idea of a delay surfaced from rank-and-file Democrats on Wednesday, who began discussing it with Democratic leaders as the day went on.
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