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malchickiwick

(1,474 posts) Sun Jun 16, 2019, 10:42 PM Jun 2019

Regarding Impeachment: What About a Special Committee?

I admit that I am not anything near literate when it comes to procedure in the House, but could not Speaker Pelosi create a special committee to investigate the president, and give it exceptional powers of investigation, which would be a way to straddle that line between full on impeachment and doing nothing.

Like I said, I'm no expert on how this works, but I just wonder if there is some mechanism by which we can expose the findings of the Mueller report, without turning so many off with the word "impeachment".

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Regarding Impeachment: What About a Special Committee? (Original Post) malchickiwick Jun 2019 OP

I believe it's called a "select committee" Fiendish Thingy Jun 2019 #1

That sounds better than rushing into murielm99 Jun 2019 #2

Except that IS the full impeachment process FBaggins Jun 2019 #3

Well, a select committee would be formed as part of an impeachment inquiry Fiendish Thingy Jun 2019 #4

Fiendish Thingy

(15,624 posts)

1. I believe it's called a "select committee"

Reply to malchickiwick (Original post)

Sun Jun 16, 2019, 10:55 PM

Jun 2019

Combining members of various committees, such as intelligence, judicial, oversight, etc. for the singular purpose of determining whether the president should be impeached.

Works for me.

murielm99

(30,745 posts)

2. That sounds better than rushing into

Reply to Fiendish Thingy (Reply #1)

Sun Jun 16, 2019, 11:44 PM

Jun 2019

the full impeachment process. I believe Pelosi has her reasons for holding back.

FBaggins

(26,748 posts)

3. Except that IS the full impeachment process

Reply to murielm99 (Reply #2)

Sun Jun 16, 2019, 11:53 PM

Jun 2019

An impeachment inquiry can be assigned to a committee created just for that purpose... and if it isn’t an impeachment inquiry the. They don’t get “special powers”

Fiendish Thingy

(15,624 posts)

4. Well, a select committee would be formed as part of an impeachment inquiry

Reply to murielm99 (Reply #2)

Mon Jun 17, 2019, 09:30 AM

Jun 2019

Considering there's been two years worth of high crimes and misdemeanors, I don't think anyone could accurately describe opening an inquiry now as "rushing".

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