The House has voted 211 to 204 to refer the articles of impeachment filed against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to committee, effectively killing the impeachment effort spearheaded by Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky.
Tuesday’s vote short-circuits any potential floor vote on the articles of impeachment, and virtually guarantees the measure will not be taken up before the current session of Congress expires.
The vote provided a surprise reprieve for President Trump’s embattled Defense Secretary, who was facing an impeachment vote by the full House as early as Wednesday.
Massie reintroduced the articles of impeachment on Monday, accusing Hegseth of high crimes and misdemeanors in connection to the war with Iran and U.S. strikes against Iran and on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean Sea and Eastern Pacific Ocean.
Wait, isn’t the new Congress sworn in in January? Who expected different result here?
heck of a job, Hakim
I’ve been seeing some comments about the 11 Dem no votes, but apparently that’s because the GOP ended voting early. Apparently the usual practice is to hold the vote open for a while to let stragglers make their way to the chamber to actually get their votes in.
Most blamed traffic delays, but as another legislator put it
“We knew that this vote was coming, so people should have gotten their raggedy selves up these steps to vote,” Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-California) told reporters. “There is no reason why we should have lost this vote because of attendance issues.”
Others were in their home state, had a personal emergency, or couldn’t travel until medically cleared.
The vote was held at 18:02 EST. Democrats who didn’t vote
- Brownley D-CA
- Correa D-CA
- Gillen D-NY
- Horsford D-NV
- Jackson D-IL
- Pelosi D-CA
- Pettersen D-CO
- Stansbury D-NM
- Stevens D-MI
- Strickland D-WA
- Wilson D-FL
Brownley D-CA
Did not run for reelection. Retired.
Correa D-CA
Won reelection.
Gillen D-NY
Won reelection.
Horsford D-NV
Won reelection.
Jackson D-IL
Won reelection.
Pelosi D-CA
Did not run for reelection. Retired.
Pettersen D-CO
Won reelection.
Stansbury D-NM
Won reelection.
Stevens D-MI
Did not run for reelection. Retired. (For clarification, ran and lost again El-Sayed, endorsing his opponent,)
Strickland D-WA
Won reelection.
Wilson D-FL
Did not run for reelection. Retired.
I’m going to give those outgoing representatives a pass, which is generous and undeserving because people are elected until they’ve finished their term, not months before. But everyone else, who were just reelected, the fuck? You had a job to do and you just won an election, do your job.
the fuck
it’s how they operate. they won, so of course they don’t have to work anymore. welcome to how the dems operate: like quiet republicans.
I’d only give the ones with an emergency or medical excuse a pass.
Stevens is firmly pro-Israel, whose government dragged the US into the unauthorized war. Their Israel lobby funding might be worth checking. However, plenty of Democrats with significant funding nonetheless likely attended to vote, because Hegseth is that awful.
That kind of shenanigans always makes me think that the mental capacity of many in government peaks at age 6.
Makes me think that republicans are better at showing up
To be fair, that is because this kind of shenanigans keeps working.
“We won on a technicality so you lose smelly face!”. It is the “No homers club” all over again.
Democracy at work!
Is that… allowed?
Shit seems to be held barely together by a gentleman agreement. And with shit I mean US democratic institutions.
can they impeach him again once the left takes over
Sure. Conviction ain’t gonna happen, though. Enough conservative Dems will vote against it and give the “now is not the time, we need to move forward and heal” bullshit
Can’t move forward if he’s still in the position, committing war crimes
I fucking hate that bullshit, one of the most important things abiut moving forward and healing is dealing with what has happened.
Punishment can be counterproductive… in an environment of reconciliation where there is a consensus that the wrongdoing happened and was wrong and shouldn’t be repeated.
Oh definately, there are plenty of times when it far lore productive to help rather than punnishing.
One of rhe best examples was after WWII, the US and the allies vould have crushed Germany, but they recognized that they would rather have Germany as a strong ally in Europe and helped west Germany move forward after the war.
Was this decision perfect? No, there were plenty of war criminals that escaped punishement.
Was this decision good? Yes, I believe so, Germany was rehabilitated and is now a close ally to the US and Europe.
The stituation here is different, Hegseth and the other MAGA guys will not conceede reason and won’t cooperate honestly, in these cases some people needs to be made an example of, and Hegseth is an excellent candidate.
Indeed.
(I don’t know if it was obvious but I do fully realise that we are not in the situation I described with Hegseth and MAGA!)
“counterproductive” if the goal is to continue the wrongdoing.
Nope, this is one of the principles of truth and reconciliation. It’s predicated on the idea that all parties want to move on from the wrongdoing, rather than one or more wishing to continue it.
not punishing those doing war crimes is not “moving on.” it’s allowing it to continue.
the left?
Of course! If I was a betting man, I’d say that’s damn-near guaranteed…
Yes, impeachment is considered privileged, so unlike a typical bill it can be brought back.
Great job. Pat yourselves on the back. Justice is served. Roll credits.
It was just Massie the “ex” nazi flailing for attention. Democrats won’t even flail.
Also, Massie was full of shit when he said he had the votes. What a dork.
It is so stupid that they have to vote in person.
Here’s the vote table: https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2026317
So why would one be not-voting? Did they not go in for the vote? Am I incorrect in assuming that if the Dems that were not-voting did vote it would have made a difference?
At least one was stuck in traffic caused by an accident.
https://bsky.app/profile/repstansbury.bsky.social/post/3mzyp554utk2e
When she reached the chamber the vote had just gaveled out. She immediately filed a report of her vote of “NO” to the motion meant to kill the impeachment articles and refer them to the Judiciary Committee, as documented in the Congressional Record.
Because they’re bought and paid for.
lol
lmao even
This kind of shit happens all the time… Whoever doesn’t believe that they are all playing together is more of a dummy than me
I feel sorry for the AP History students in 10 years…
Well, there ya go. There wasn’t anyone coming to our rescue before, and there isn’t now.
this was never a real thing. It was a last ditch effort by a republican to shed his fascist affiliations before the blue wave congress takes over in January.
Anyone who thought otherwise doesn’t know how any of this works.
It was a last ditch effort by a republican to shed his fascist affiliations
Not really: that Republican wasn’t shedding affiliations. He opposed the administration enough for the administration to endorse a competitor to cost him the primary. This was another step of many predating the election.
