The House will vote Tuesday night to encourage Trump's removal and Wednesday morning on impeachment, House leaders announced.
Jan. 11, 2021, 9:15 PM CST / Updated Jan. 12, 2021, 7:38 AM CST
By Alex Moe, Rebecca Shabad and Dareh Gregorian
WASHINGTON — House Democrats plan to vote on a measure calling on Vice President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment against President Donald Trump and on an article of impeachment in the next two days.
眾議院民主黨計劃投票通過一項措施，呼籲副總統邁克·彭斯（Mike Pence）發起針對唐納德·特朗普總統的《第二十五條修正案》，並在接下來的兩天內對彈劾條款進行表決。Democrats introduced the impeachment article Monday charging Trump with "incitement of insurrection" in urging his supporters to march on the U.S. Capitol last week , as well as a resolution that calls on Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment to the Constitution to remove him from office before Jan. 20.
民主黨人周一介紹了彈劾文章，指控特朗普“煽動叛亂”，敦促他的支持者上週前往美
國國會大廈，以及一項決議，呼籲彭斯援引《憲法》第25條修正案，以在卸任前將他
免職。一月20日前。
The House will vote on the 25th Amendment measure as early as Tuesday and on the article of impeachment Wednesday — one week to the day after the deadly mayhem that has shaken Washington to the core and a week before the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden.
眾議院將最早在星期二對第25條修正案進行表決，在星期三對彈the條款進行表決，這是在將華盛頓動搖至核心的致命混亂之後的第一周，也就是當選總統喬·拜登就職前一周。
The impeachment measure, which has more than 200 Democratic co-sponsors, says Trump "gravely endangered the security of the United States and its institutions of government. He threatened the integrity of the democratic system, interfered with the peaceful transition of power, and imperiled a coequal branch of government. He thereby betrayed his trust as president, to the manifest injury of the people of the United States."
彈200措施有200多個民主黨共同發起人，他說，特朗普“嚴重危害了美國及其政府機構的安全。他威脅民主制度的完整性，干擾了權力的和平過渡，並危及了人民的安全。政府平等的一個部門。因此，他對總統的信任背叛了美國人民。
Members announced the article and other resolutions during a brief House session at 11 a.m. ET.
成員在美國東部時間上午11點舉行的簡短眾議院會議上宣布了這篇文章和其他決議。
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., tried to pass a resolution prepared by Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., that calls on Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment. Hoyer needed unanimous consent to pass the measure, but Rep. Alex Mooney, R-W.Va., blocked it. Democrats will now hold a floor vote on the measure Tuesday night.
眾議院多數黨領袖Steny Hoyer，馬里蘭州試圖通過眾議院民主黨眾議員Jamie Raskin制定的一項決議，該決議呼籲Pence援引第25條修正案。霍耶需要獲得一致同意才能通過這項措施，但美國參議院的亞歷克斯·穆尼（Alex Mooney）阻止了該措施。民主黨現在將在星期二晚上就該措施進行一次最低限度的投票。
"We are calling on the vice president to respond within 24 hours" of passage, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said Sunday in a letter to Democrats announcing plans to introduce the 25th Amendment measure, added that Democrats would pursue impeachment legislation next.
眾議院議長卡利夫（N-Calif）眾議院議長南希·佩洛西（Nancy Pelosi）週日在致民主黨的一封信中說：“我們呼籲副總統在24小時內作出回應。”該信宣布計劃實施第25條修正案，並補充說民主黨將推行彈would立法。下一個。
Sources said Pence is unlikely to sign onto any push to invoke the 25th Amendment. "I don't think that's an option," one said.
消息人士稱，便士不太可能簽署任何援引第25條修正案的動議。一位人士說：“我認為這不是一種選擇。”
Pelosi and other House Democratic leaders have not explicitly said which articles of impeachment the House will vote on. Democrats have overwhelmingly voiced support for the effort and for fast-tracking it in Trump's final days in office.
佩洛西和眾議院民主黨其他領導人均未明確表示眾議院將對哪些彈of進行投票。民主黨人壓倒性地表示支持這項努力，並在特朗普任職的最後幾天裡迅速採取行動。
Hoyer said that he is not in favor of delaying sending the articles of impeachment to the Senate but rather that he wants them sent immediately.
霍爾說，他不贊成推遲將彈imp條款發送給參議院，而是希望立即發送
According to a memo circulated by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., if the House impeaches Trump this week, the earliest the Senate could take up the articles would be Jan. 19, unless all 100 senators agree to come back early.
根據參議院多數黨領袖米奇·麥康奈爾（R-Ky。）散發的備忘錄，如果眾議院本週彈Trump特朗普，則除非參眾兩院均同意早日回來，否則參議院最早可在1月19日開始審議該條款。
But Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-NY, is exploring a possible workaround — using the authority granted to the two Senate leaders in 2004 to reconvene the Senate in times of emergency, a senior Democratic aide said. That would allow for a potential impeachment trial to begin immediately after articles of impeachment are sent.
The move would still require McConnell's consent to proceed, as both the majority and minority leaders would need to sign off on it.
House Majority Whip Rep. Jim Clyburn, D-S.C., said Sunday on CNN that the House could delay sending the articles of impeachment to the Senate until after Biden's first 100 days in office, citing concerns that a trial could slow Biden's agenda.
Biden suggested Monday that there was another way forward. He told reporters in Delaware that he had spoken to House and Senate Democrats about the possibility that the trial would take half of the congressional day, allowing work to proceed on his agenda at the same time.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., a top Trump ally, tweeted that he was "disappointed to hear the House is proceeding with a second impeachment given that there are only nine days left in a Trump presidency."
"It is past time for all of us to try to heal our country and move forward," Graham said, offering no alternative to hold Trump accountable.
Trump would be the first president to be impeached twice. In a Senate trial, he would not have the same legal team that helped him win acquittal on charges of abuse of power and obstructing Congress last year.
Jay Sekulow, who led Trump's legal battle against the special counsel investigation and the impeachment trial last year, is not involved in any legal advice for Trump at this time, people close to Sekulow said. White House counsel Pat Cipollone and lawyer Jane Raskin, who previously defended Trump during impeachment, are expected to be a part of any legal team.
Lawyer Alan Dershowitz, who was reported to have expressed interest in defending Trump again, said he has not been in contact with Trump or "anybody who would be in a position of authority," and he said he doubted that there would be time for a trial given the limited window before Biden takes office and Democrats take control of the Senate.
The "incitement of insurrection" article of impeachment was then introduced by Raskin and Reps. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., and David Cicilline, D-R.I. The measure also says Trump has "demonstrated that he will remain a threat to national security, democracy and the Constitution if allowed to remain in office, and has acted in a manner grossly incompatible with self-governance and the rule of law."
"President Trump thus warrants impeachment and trial, removal from office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust, or profit under the United States," the resolution says.
It also cites Trump's Jan. 2 phone call urging Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to "find" enough votes to overturn the state's election results as part of his effort "to subvert and obstruct the certification of the results of the 2020 presidential election."
Raskin, Lieu and Cicilline said in a statement: "We cannot allow this unprecedented provocation to go unanswered. Everyone involved in this assault must be held accountable, beginning with the man most responsible for it — President Donald Trump. We cannot begin to heal the soul of this country without first delivering swift justice to all its enemies — foreign and domestic."
Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., said she filed two articles of impeachment related to Wednesday's attack and Trump's call to Raffensperger.
Freshman Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., also introduced a resolution "to expel members who voted to overturn the election and incited a white supremacist coup that has left people dead," she said in a tweet Sunday. "They have violated the 14th Amendment."
Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, Washington, D.C.'s Democratic nonvoting delegate in the House, also prepared a resolution that would censure Trump.
Hoyer's office said the House would consider articles of impeachment Wednesday morning.
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