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(12 Sep 2023)
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ARCHIVE: Washington - 31 May 2023
1. Wide of the U.S. Capitol building

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Washington - 6 September 2023
2. STILL of President Joe Biden speaks in the State Dining Room
ANNOTATION:
Congress is adding an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden to its busy Fall schedule that includes preventing a government shutdown.

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ARCHIVE: Washington - 8 February 2023
3. STILL of House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chairman James Comer, (R) Kentucky calls a recess, a poster from a New York Post headline titled (English) "Biden Secret Emails" is seen in background
ANNOTATION:
While the House wields the power to impeach a federal official, only the Senate has the ability to convict and remove an individual from office.

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Washington - 12 September 2023
4. Mid of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and other Democrats walking to a podium inside the U.S. Capitol
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Chuck Schumer, Majority Leader:
"I think the impeachment inquiry is absurd. The American people want us to do something that will make their lives better, not go off on these chases and witch hunts. The bottom line is, as we've said, you can only accomplish keeping the government open in a bipartisan way."

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Washington - 12 September 2023
6. STILL of Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, (R) California announces an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden inside the U.S. Capitol

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Washington - 12 September 2023
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Mitch McConnell, Minority Leader:
++PARTIALLY COVERED++
"I don't think Speaker McCarthy needs any advice from the Senate on how to run the House."

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Washington - 12 September 2023
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Thom Tillis, (R) North Carolina:
"It's about us doing the homework. I don't feel like the Democrats did their homework in the two impeachment proceedings. If they've got facts and evidence, they want to run through a traditional process, we'll see what the result is. I don't think that is going to result in a removal on the Senate side. But if there's meaningful information that they think the American people need to know about, I'm okay with it."
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Lindsey Graham, (R) South Carolina:
"If you're going to impeach a president, you should have an inquiry vote. The Democrats didn't do that. But I think the way to make an inquiry legitimate is to have a vote as to whether or not you should have one at all. Rather than just the leadership deciding. So I don't know if they had the votes, but I would applaud the process of where they actually have to vote."
++ENDS ON A SOUNDBITE++
STORYLINE:
Congress is adding an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden to its busy Fall schedule that includes preventing a government shutdown.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said Tuesday he is launching an impeachment inquiry against President Biden, yielding to mounting pressure from former President Donald Trump and his allies in what's shaping up as an election-year clash between Congress and the White House.

McCarthy appointed the chairmen of the House Judiciary, Oversight and Ways and Means committees to lead the inquiry as the panels have already been working together for months to pursue various investigations into Biden and his family.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, a Democrat from New York, called the impeachment inquiry "absurd."



"I don't think Speaker McCarthy needs any advice from the Senate on how to run the House," McConnell said.







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