{"id":198277,"date":"2019-12-15T22:16:28","date_gmt":"2019-12-15T22:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/congress-faces-high-stakes-week-with-impeachment-trade-and-funding-votes-ahead.html"},"modified":"2019-12-15T22:16:28","modified_gmt":"2019-12-15T22:16:28","slug":"congress-faces-high-stakes-week-with-impeachment-trade-and-funding-votes-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/congress-faces-high-stakes-week-with-impeachment-trade-and-funding-votes-ahead.html","title":{"rendered":"Congress faces high-stakes week with impeachment, trade and funding votes ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a long, emotionally charged hearing, the House Judiciary Committee voted along party lines Friday to send two articles of impeachment<\/a> to the House floor. The chamber charges the president with abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, stemming from efforts to get Ukraine to investigate a top political rival, former Vice President Joe Biden, and his son Hunter.<\/p>\n

The Democratic-held chamber is expected to impeach Trump \u2014 potentially without any Republican support. The GOP-controlled Senate then plans to hold a trial in January, though it likely will not remove the president from office.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, top congressional appropriators said Thursday they reached an agreement in principle<\/a> on 12 spending bills to keep the government running past Friday’s deadline. The House and Senate still need to finalize the deal before next week.<\/p>\n

Trump, as usual, could decide whether the appropriations deal gets through Congress. He has not yet said whether he will support the developing agreement, and his opposition could jeopardize its passage in the Senate.<\/p>\n

At the same time, the House will move quickly to ratify the North American trade deal. The Ways and Means Committee has set a bill markup for Tuesday, after which it can send the agreement to the House floor.<\/p>\n

The chamber then hopes to approve the three-nation agreement before the end of the week. Business groups and Republicans have pushed for Congress to approve the deal. Most Democrats appear to be on board following the labor enforcement changes.<\/p>\n

In a sign of the bipartisan support USMCA could garner, Sens. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, announced they would vote for the deal. Brown, who has a reputation as a populist with close ties to organized labor, said in a statement that “this will be the first trade agreement I’ve ever voted for.”<\/p>\n

One of this week’s legislative priorities has consumed the president more than the others. The president tweeted or retweeted dozens of times on Thursday and Friday, and in most of those cases he shared videos of allies criticizing the House’s impeachment process.<\/p>\n

“The Do Nothing Democrats have become the Party of lies and deception! The Republicans are the Party of the American Dream!” he wrote on Friday.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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After a long, emotionally charged hearing, the House Judiciary Committee voted along party lines Friday to send two articles of impeachment to the House floor. The chamber charges the president with abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, stemming from efforts to get Ukraine to investigate a top political rival, former Vice President Joe Biden, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-198277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","tag-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}