House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) is “confident” that House Republicans will have the floor votes to authorize a formal impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden.
Comer said in a Sunday interview with Maria Bartiromo on Fox News’s Sunday Morning Futures that he thinks moderate GOP holdouts have changed their tune on the impeachment inquiry after they returned home after 10 weeks of Congress being in session.
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“We were in Washington, D.C. for 10 weeks, and there are about 15 or 20 moderates … they were getting in their head, Maria, but a great thing happened during Thanksgiving,” Comer said. “The members went home — many of them for the first time and circulated for the first time in over 10 weeks — and they met people in Walmart and people on Main Street, and they’re like, ‘What in the world have the Biden’s done to receive millions and millions of dollars from our enemies around the world and did they not pay taxes on it?'”
“So they heard from their constituents, ‘Yes, we want you to move forward. We want to know the truth, and we expect the Biden’s to be held accountable for public corruption,'” Comer added.
James Comer tells Maria Bartiromo that moderate House Republicans are more willing to to vote for a Biden impeachment inquiry now because they went home over Thanksgiving and heard from their constituents at Walmart pic.twitter.com/gavFiabw0Y
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The Kentucky Republican said he believes the Republican conference is unified on the impeachment inquiry “at a time when I think it’s no secret, our conference is broken in a lot of ways.”
“The members have heard from their constituents back home; they have confidence in the credibility of our investigation and the mountains of evidence that we’ve accumulated,” Comer said. “So, I’m confident we’re gonna have the votes to move forward with this impeachment inquiry.”
Republicans on the House Oversight, Judiciary, and Ways and Means Committees have taken point on the impeachment inquiry and held hearings on the topic since late September.
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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said an impeachment inquiry vote became a “necessary” step after he claimed that the Biden administration “stonewalled” investigations into the first family. The House Oversight Committee has acquired some 35,000 pages of private financial records, 2,000 pages of Treasury Department financial reports, 36 hours of witness interviews and testimony, and vice presidential material from the National Archives.
House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN) told House GOP members in a closed-door meeting this week that the House will likely vote to authorize an impeachment inquiry into the president within the next few weeks before the House recesses on Dec. 14.
