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Today, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich published an
op-ed on Fox News and Newsweek explaining the powerful effect
Senator Graham's resolution had on Speaker Pelosi. Few people
know the ins and outs of impeachment as well as Newt Gingrich,
and I hope you will take a few moments this evening to give it a
read.














John,

It's been a busy news week here at Graham HQ. Just days after
Senator Graham introduced a resolution in the Senate with 50
co-sponsors condemning the House's impeachment proceedings,
Speaker Nancy Pelosi suddenly announced that the House of
Representatives will take up a vote on impeachment.

Today, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich published an
op-ed on Fox News and Newsweek explaining the powerful effect
Senator Graham's resolution had on Speaker Pelosi. Few people
know the in's and out's of impeachment as well as Newt Gingrich,
and I hope you will take a few moments this evening to give it a
read.

On to victory,

T.W. Arrighi
Communications Director
Team Graham





NEWT GINGRICH: HOW SENATOR LINDSEY GRAHAM FORCED NANCY PELOSI'S
HAND ON IMPEACHMENT


Senator Lindsey Graham has created a new reality for House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

Graham has written a powerful resolution which Senate Majority
Leader Mitch McConnell joined in cosponsoring. Together they have
attracted 50 co-sponsors - which means that with Vice President
Pence supporting them, they would win a vote to dismiss any phony
impeachment from the House that failed to meet a key standard of
fairness.

The resolution:

"calls on the House of Representatives, prior to proceeding any
further with its impeachment investigation into President Trump,
to vote to initiate a formal impeachment inquiry;

calls on the House of Representatives to provide President Trump,
like every other American, with due process, to include the
ability to confront his accusers, call witnesses on his behalf,
and have a basic understanding of the accusations against him
that would form any basis for impeachment; and

calls on the House of Representatives to provide members of the
minority with the ability to participate fully in all proceedings
and have equal authority to issue subpoenas and other compulsory
process."


Faced with this new reality, Speaker Pelosi suddenly ended months
of avoiding a vote on the impeachment process and announced today
that the House would vote this week.

As a practical matter, the House Democrats had no choice but to
bring the impeachment process to a vote. They were faced with a
Trump administration that refused to cooperate with a secret
investigation which lacked rules and authorization by the full
House. They were also faced with a Senate that was prepared to
reject a kangaroo court-style secret approach.

However, the next test for Speaker Pelosi and the House Democrats
will concern the kind of resolution they bring to the floor.

The House Democrats have a clear model of a fair, systematic
bipartisan approach in the rules adopted by the Democrats in 1973
and by the Republicans in 1998. Former Democratic Chairman of the
House Judiciary Committee Peter Rodino of New Jersey developed a
bipartisan set of rules in 1973 during the Nixon impeachment
proceedings. Rodino's rules allowed the White House Counsel to be
present at all hearings-including those held in secret. They also
allowed the Republican minority to offer subpoenas to bring in
the witnesses they wanted in addition to the witnesses the
Democrats wanted.

When we were faced with an impeachment process in 1998, we sent a
congressman to interview then-retired Chairman Rodino, and we
literally adopted all of his rules.

So, there is a bipartisan precedent for a fair, orderly approach
to the impeachment process.

If Speaker Pelosi offers a resolution which includes these
precedents - and if her resolution answers the 10 questions
Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy has written posed to her - then
it is possible the impeachment process will be back on a
bipartisan track.

If, however, Speaker Pelosi introduces a resolution to continue
the secret kangaroo court-Star Chamber-partisan approach
Representative Adam Schiff has adopted, then the vote will be
meaningless.

If the House Democrats fail to heed the warning of the
Graham-McConnell Resolution, they will be setting up all their
efforts to be dismissed out of hand by the senators who have
called on them for real reforms in the current impeachment
process.

Graham and McConnell have already had a big impact in just a few
days. They are now poised to judge whether the Democrats'
proposed rules represent real fairness and real bipartisanship or
are simply more of the same dishonest, secretive, one-sided
baloney Schiff has served up so far.

It will be very interesting to see what kind of resolution
Speaker Pelosi brings forward.
















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