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Donald Trump's impeachment is very historical for the two Texas Latinas in congress as they cast their votes supporting the articles of impeachment filed against the President of the United States.
These two Latinas are Representatives Veronica Escobar and Sylvia Garcia who are both members of the Democrat Party. They said during an interview that the polls showing that Americans are split when it comes to the removal of the president from his office did not change or affect their decision. They stood in their decision in the House as members of the Judiciary Committee without any elements of prejudice.
The nascent financial technology industry started the year faintly optimistic that the 116th Congress would pass bills in its favor. But as 2019 comes to an end without legislation, the industry isn't even expecting action in 2020. And for that, they're feeling relieved, not disappointed.
Facebook Inc.'s midyear announcement that it planned to launch a cryptocurrency, Libra, upended the industry's focus, tilting the legislative strategy from pressing hard for beneficial bills to staying clear of measures aimed at checking the social media giant's ambitions to transform commerce.
Now, with the possible exception of a data privacy bill and a smattering of smaller measures, congressional observers in the fintech world expect 2020 will maintain the statutory status quo.
The House will vote on the impeachment of President Donald Trump this week, after spending the past three months investigating the president's dealings in Ukraine and deciding whether his behavior was grave enough to qualify as high crimes and misdemeanors.
The House Judiciary Committee on Friday approved two articles of impeachment against Trump: abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. The vote came after a bitter two-day debate in which Democrats said it was their duty to impeach and Republicans defended the president and battled over process.
WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar said she wanted to put House Democrats' case for impeachment in "simple terms for the American public."
During a marathon hearing of the House Judiciary Committee in which Democrats teed up the third impeachment of a president in American history, the El Paso Democrat laid out a hypothetical.
A governor withholds funding from a community racked by a natural disaster, telling the mayor of that community he'll hand over the money, but first he wants a favor: Have your police chief smear my political opponent.
After over 14 hours of debate, Democrats surprised Republicans by holding off a final vote in the House Judiciary Committee until Friday morning on two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, as Democrats charged the President was clearly trying to get Ukraine to announce investigations which would benefit Mr. Trump's 2020 re-election bid.
"President Trump used his office to serve himself," said Rep. Val Demings (D-FL), as Democrats said the evidence was clear that President Trump was trying to get foreign help for 2020.
"The President is an imminent threat," said Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-TX). "We have to take action, we must impeach the President." "President Trump used his office to serve himself," said Rep. Val Demings (D-FL), as Democrats said the evidence was clear that President Trump was trying to get foreign help for 2020.
On Dec. 11, the Farm Workforce Modernization Act, a bipartisan bill spearheaded by U.S. Representatives Jimmy Panetta (D-CA-20), Zoe Lofgren (D-CA-19), Dan Newhouse (R-WA-04), Mike Simpson (R-ID-02), Doug LaMalfa (R-CA-01), and Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL-25), passed in the House of Representatives with a 260-165 vote.
Over 80 members of the Home of Representatives have now referred to as on White Home senior adviser Stephen Miller to resign after leaked emails printed this week confirmed his affinity for white nationalism.
HuffPost contacted the workplace of each Home member and requested whether or not Miller ought to resign. All instructed, over 80 representatives, all Democrats, have mentioned he ought to.
"Hell sure," responded Rep. John Yarmuth (D-Ky.).
"I really feel fairly safe in my perception that flaming white nationalists shouldn't have any place within the White Home, the halls of Congress or wherever, for that matter," mentioned Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.).
WASHINGTON – After weeks of blaming Democrats for delaying President Donald Trump's renegotiated trade deal with Canada and Mexico, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R- Ky., said Tuesday he would delay it further.
"We will not be doing USMCA in the Senate between now and next week," McConnell stated told reporters on Capitol Hill Tuesday. "That will happen, in all likelihood, right after the trial is finished in the Senate."
Republicans defending President Donald Trump have falsely claimed there is no first-hand knowledge that directly implicates the commander-in-chief.
As with many of the past defenses of Trump offered by Republicans, there are making factual holes with the argument.
Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-TX) debunked the talking point during her questioning of House Intelligence Committee counsel Daniel Goldman.
"Mr. Goldman, my Republican colleagues have suggested there is no direct evidence," Garcia noted. "Is that true?"
"No," Goldman replied. "There's a lot of direct evidence. And a lot of the evidence that they say is hearsay is actually not hearsay."
Garcia, who served five terms as a judge in Houston, brought up a half-dozen different pieces of evidence that Goldman agreed were direct evidence.
Texas Congresswoman Sylvia Garcia, Democratic member of the House Judiciary Committee, joins Neil Cavuto on 'CAVUTO Live.'