Whip It Good: Impeachment Inquiry Edition [UPDATED-7]
[NB: Check the byline, thanks! Updates at the very bottom. /~Rayne]
CNN published a report this weekend tallying the House Democrats who have already expressed support in one way or another for an impeachment inquiry. The head count stood at 63 out of 235 Democrats on Saturday, along with lone Republican Justin Amash (R-MI).
There are many possible reasons why House Democrats haven’t yet expressed support for a Constitutionally empowered inquiry, not the least of which is simple chickenshit worry about polling for the 2020 race. I say chickenshit because 2018 was a huge wave and the reasons which drove that wave have not subsided. They have only increased in intensity.
Can you think of anyone in your circle of friends and family whose taxes have gone down since the Trump tax bill passed? Can you think of anyone who’s found their grocery bill or their rent has gone down? What about medical bills — has anyone you know experienced a drop in prescription drug costs or health care insurance premiums?
And what of other matters like personal privacy or the ability to vote? Have those matters improved for the average Americans you know?
Now we can add more rural Americans to the discontented having been ignored while their states have been inundated, just as coastal residents in hurricane-damaged states have also gone without timely attention and aid.
The blue wave will continue. Its power needs to be focused. We have some time to address that. But we also need to develop that focus with more effective investigations into the Trump administration’s public corruption and abuses of power as well as obstruction of justice and oversight. An impeachment inquiry will provide the teeth necessary to obtain evidence and testimony, and it’s well past time to get the House Dems on board.
Here’s the whip list below — I will update it as I see reports in the media.
Your job as a citizen is to exercise your civic duty and contact your representative to find out where they stand on an impeachment inquiry, and to convey your opinion supporting one.
Do share your results in comments; we’ll watch to see how long it takes for the media to catch up with any changes in this whip count.
Let’s roll, people. Congressional switchboard: (202) 224-3121
| State | Last | First, Middle, Nickname | Party Affiliation | Impeachment Inquiry Y/N | House Judiciary Committee |
| Alabama | Sewell | Terrycina Andrea “Terri” | Dem | ||
| Arizona | Gallego | Ruben | Dem | ||
| Arizona | Grijalva | Raul M. | Dem | Y | |
| Arizona | Kirkpatrick | Ann | Dem | ||
| Arizona | O’Halleran | Tom | Dem | ||
| Arizona | Stanton | Greg | Dem | Y | 🔺 |
| California | Aguilar | Pete | Dem | ||
| California | Barragán | Nanette Diaz | Dem | Y | |
| California | Bass | Karen R. | Dem | ||
| California | Bera | Amerish “Ami” | Dem | ||
| California | Brownley | Julia | Dem | ||
| California | Cardenas | Tony | Dem | Y | |
| California | Carbajal | Salud O. | Dem | ||
| California | Chu | Judy | Dem | ||
| California | Cisneros | Gilbert “Gil” | Dem | ||
| California | Correa | Jose Luis “Lou” | Dem | ||
| California | Costa | Jim | Dem | ||
| California | Cox | Terrance John “TJ” | Dem | ||
| California | Davis | Susan A. | Dem | ||
| California | DeSaulnier | Mark | Dem | Y | |
| California | Eshoo | Anna G. | Dem | ||
| California | Garamendi | John Raymond | Dem | ||
| California | Gomez | Jimmy | Dem | ||
| California | Harder | Josh | Dem | ||
| California | Hill | Katherine Lauren “Katie” | Dem | ||
| California | Huffman | Jared W. | Dem | Y | |
| California | Khanna | Rohit “Ro” | Dem | ||
| California | Lee | Barbara | Dem | Y | |
| California | Levin | Mike | Dem | ||
| California | Lieu | Ted W. | Dem | Y | 🔺 |
| California | Lofgren | Zoe | Dem | see comment | |
| California | Lowenthal | Alan S. | Dem | Y | |
| California | Matsui | Doris K. | Dem | ||
| California | McNerney | Gerald Mark “Jerry” | Dem | ||
| California | Napolitano | Grace Flores | Dem | Y | |
| California | Panetta | James Varni “Jimmy” | Dem | ||
| California | Pelosi | Nancy | Dem | ||
| California | Peters | Scott | Dem | ||
| California | Porter | Katherine “Katie” | Dem | Y | |
| California | Rouda Jr. | Harley E. | Dem | [1] | |
| California | Roybal-Allard | Lucille | Dem | ||
| California | Ruiz | Raul | Dem | ||
| California | Sanchez | Linda T. | Dem | ||
| California | Schiff | Adam B. | Dem | ||
| California | Sherman | Brad | Dem | Y | |
| California | Speier | Jackie | Dem | Y | |
| California | Swalwell | Eric Michael | Dem | Y | 🔺 |
| California | Takano | Mark A. | Dem | see comment | |
| California | Thompson | C. Michael “Mike” | Dem | ||
| California | Torres | Norma J. | Dem | Y | |
| California | Vargas | Juan C. | Dem | Y | |
| California | Waters | Maxine | Dem | Y | |
| Colorado | Crow | Jason | Dem | ||
| Colorado | DeGette | Diana L. | Dem | Y | |
| Colorado | Neguse | Joseph “Joe” | Dem | Y | 🔺 |
| Colorado | Perlmutter | Edwin G. “Ed” | Dem | ||
| Connecticut | Courtney | Joseph D. “Joe” | Dem | ||
| Connecticut | DeLauro | Rosa L. | Dem | ||
| Connecticut | Hayes | Jahana | Dem | ||
| Connecticut | Himes | Jim | Dem | ||
| Connecticut | Larson | John B. | Dem | ||
| Delaware | Rochester | Lisa Blunt | Dem | ||
| Florida | Castor | Katherine Anne “Kathy” | Dem | ||
| Florida | Crist | Charlie Joseph | Dem | ||
| Florida | Demings | Valdez “Val” | Dem | Y | 🔺 |
| Florida | Deutch | Theodore Eliot “Ted” | Dem | ||
| Florida | Frankel | Lois J. | Dem | ||
| Florida | Hastings | Alcee L. | Dem | ||
| Florida | Lawson Jr. | Alfred “Al” | Dem | ||
| Florida | Mucarsel-Powell | Debbie | Dem | Y | 🔺 |
| Florida | Murphy | Stephanie | Dem | ||
| Florida | Shalala | Donna Elvira | Dem | ||
| Florida | Soto | Darren | Dem | ||
| Florida | Wasserman Schultz | Debbie | Dem | ||
| Florida | Wilson | Frederica S. | Dem | ||
| Georgia | Bishop Jr. | Sanford Dixon | Dem | ||
| Georgia | Johnson Jr. | Henry C. “Hank” | Dem | ||
| Georgia | Lewis | John R. | Dem | ||
| Georgia | McBath | Lucia Kay “Lucy” | Dem | ||
| Georgia | Scott | David Albert | Dem | ||
| Hawaii | Case | Edward E. “Ed” | Dem | ||
| Hawaii | Gabbard | Tulsi | Dem | ||
| Illinois | Bustos | Cheri | Dem | ||
| Illinois | Casten | Sean | Dem | Y | |
| Illinois | Davis | Danny K. | Dem | Y | |
| Illinois | Foster | G. William “Bill” | Dem | ||
| Illinois | Garcia | Jesus G. “Chuy” | Dem | Y | |
| Illinois | Kelly | Robin L. | Dem | Y | |
| Illinois | Krishnamoorthi | S. Raja | Dem | ||
| Illinois | Lipinski | Daniel William “Dan” | Dem | ||
| Illinois | Quigley | Mike | Dem | Y | |
| Illinois | Rush | Bobby Lee | Dem | Y | |
| Illinois | Schakowsky | Janice D. “Jan” | Dem | ||
| Illinois | Schneider | Bradley Scott “Brad” | Dem | ||
| Illinois | Underwood | Lauren A. | Dem | ||
| Indiana | Carson | Andre D. | Dem | ||
| Indiana | Visclosky | Peter J. | Dem | ||
| Iowa | Axne | Cindy | Dem | ||
| Iowa | Finkenauer | Abby | Dem | ||
| Iowa | Loebsack | David Wayne “Dave” | Dem | ||
| Kansas | Davids | Sharice | Dem | ||
| Kentucky | Yarmuth | John A. | Dem | Y | |
| Louisiana | Richmond | Cedric L. | Dem | Y | 🔺 |
| Maine | Golden | Jared F. | Dem | ||
| Maine | Pingree | Chellie M. | Dem | Y | |
| Maryland | Brown | Anthony Gregory | Dem | ||
| Maryland | Cummings | Elijah E. | Dem | ||
| Maryland | Hoyer | Steny Hamilton | Dem | ||
| Maryland | Raskin | Jamin B. “Jamie” | Dem | Y | 🔺 |
| Maryland | Ruppersberger III | Charles Albert Dutch “C.A. Dutch” | Dem | ||
| Maryland | Sarbanes | John Peter Spyros | Dem | ||
| Maryland | Trone | David | Dem | ||
| Massachusetts | Clark | Katherine M. | Dem | ||
| Massachusetts | Keating | William Richard “Bill” | Dem | ||
| Massachusetts | Kennedy III | Joseph Patrick “Joe” | Dem | ||
| Massachusetts | Lynch | Stephen F. | Dem | ||
| Massachusetts | McGovern | James P. “Jim” | Dem | Y | |
| Massachusetts | Moulton | Seth W. | Dem | Y | |
| Massachusetts | Neal | Richard E. | Dem | ||
| Massachusetts | Pressley | Ayanna S. | Dem | Y | |
| Massachusetts | Trahan | Lori Loureiro | Dem | ||
| Michigan | Dingell | Debbie | Dem | ||
| Michigan | Kildee | Daniel T. “Dan” | Dem | Y | |
| Michigan | Lawrence | Brenda Lulenar | Dem | Y | |
| Michigan | Levin | Andy | Dem | Y | |
| Michigan | Slotkin | Elissa | Dem | ||
| Michigan | Stevens | Haley | Dem | ||
| Michigan | Tlaib | Rashida | Dem | Y | |
| Minnesota | Craig | Angela Dawn “Angie” | Dem | ||
| Minnesota | McCollum | Betty | Dem | Y | |
| Minnesota | Omar | Ilhan | Dem | Y | |
| Minnesota | Peterson | Collin Clark | Dem | ||
| Minnesota | Phillips | Dean | Dem | ||
| Mississippi | Thompson | Bennie G. | Dem | Y | |
| Missouri | Clay Jr. | William Lacy | Dem | Y | |
| Missouri | Cleaver II | Emanuel | Dem | ||
| Nevada | Horsford | Steven Alexzander | Dem | ||
| Nevada | Lee | Susan Kelley “Susie” | Dem | ||
| Nevada | Titus | Alice Costandina “Dina” | Dem | ||
| New Hampshire | Kuster | Ann McLane “Annie” | Dem | ||
| New Hampshire | Pappas | Christopher C. “Chris” | Dem | ||
| New Jersey | Gottheimer | Joshua S. “Josh” | Dem | ||
| New Jersey | Kim | Andrew “Andy” | Dem | ||
| New Jersey | Malinowski | Tom | Dem | Y | |
| New Jersey | Norcross | Donald W. | Dem | ||
| New Jersey | Pallone Jr. | Frank | Dem | ||
| New Jersey | Pascrell Jr. | William J. “Bill” | Dem | Y | |
| New Jersey | Payne Jr. | Donald M. | Dem | ||
| New Jersey | Sherrill | Rebecca Michelle “Mikie” | Dem | ||
| New Jersey | Sires | Albio | Dem | ||
| New Jersey | Van Drew | Jeff | Dem | ||
| New Jersey | Watson Coleman | Bonnie | Dem | ||
| New Mexico | Haaland | Debra A. “Deb” | Dem | ||
| New Mexico | Lujan | Ben Ray | Dem | ||
| New Mexico | Torres Small | Xochitl | Dem | ||
| New York | Brindisi | Anthony J. | Dem | ||
| New York | Clarke | Yvette D. | Dem | Y | |
| New York | Delgado | Antonio | Dem | ||
| New York | Engel | Eliot Lance | Dem | ||
| New York | Espaillat | Adriano | Dem | Y | |
| New York | Higgins | Brian M. | Dem | Y | |
| New York | Jeffries | Hakeem S. | Dem | ||
| New York | Lowey | Nita M. | Dem | ||
| New York | Maloney | Carolyn Bosher | Dem | Y | |
| New York | Maloney | Sean Patrick | Dem | ||
| New York | Meeks | Gregory Weldon | Dem | ||
| New York | Meng | Grace | Dem | ||
| New York | Morelle | Joseph D. “Joe” | Dem | ||
| New York | Nadler | Jerrold Lewis “Jerry” | Dem | ||
| New York | Ocasio-Cortez | Alexandria | Dem | Y | |
| New York | Rice | Kathleen M. | Dem | Y | |
| New York | Rose | Max N. | Dem | ||
| New York | Serrano | Jose Enrique | Dem | ||
| New York | Suozzi | Thomas R. “Tom” | Dem | ||
| New York | Tonko | Paul David | Dem | Y | |
| New York | Velázquez | Nydia Margarita | Dem | Y | |
| North Carolina | Adams | Alma Shealey | Dem | Y | |
| North Carolina | Butterfield Jr. | George Kenneth “G. K.” | Dem | Y | |
| North Carolina | Price | David Eugene | Dem | ||
| Ohio | Beatty | Joyce B. | Dem | ||
| Ohio | Fudge | Marcia L. | Dem | Y | |
| Ohio | Kaptur | Marcia Carolyn “Marcy” | Dem | ||
| Ohio | Ryan | Timothy J. “Tim” | Dem | Y | |
| Oklahoma | Horn | Kendra | Dem | ||
| Oregon | Blumenauer | Earl | Dem | Y | |
| Oregon | Bonamici | Suzanne M. | Dem | Y | |
| Oregon | DeFazio | Peter Anthony “Pete” | Dem | ||
| Oregon | Schrader | Walter Kurt “Kurt” | Dem | ||
| Pennsylvania | Boyle | Brendan F. | Dem | Y | |
| Pennsylvania | Cartwright | Matthew Alton “Matt” | Dem | ||
| Pennsylvania | Dean Cunnane | Madeleine | Dem | Y | 🔺 |
| Pennsylvania | Doyle | Michael F. “Mike” | Dem | ||
| Pennsylvania | Evans | Dwight | Dem | Y | |
| Pennsylvania | Houlahan | Christina Jampoler “Chrissy” | Dem | ||
| Pennsylvania | Lamb | Conor James | Dem | ||
| Pennsylvania | Scanlon | Mary Gay | Dem | Y | 🔺 |
| Pennsylvania | Wild | Susan Ellis | Dem | ||
| Rhode Island | Cicilline | David N. | Dem | Y | 🔺 |
| Rhode Island | Langevin | James R. “Jim” | Dem | ||
| South Carolina | Clyburn | James Enos “Jim” | Dem | ||
| South Carolina | Cunningham | Joseph K. “Joe” | Dem | ||
| Tennessee | Cohen | Stephen Ira “Steve” | Dem | Y | 🔺 |
| Tennessee | Cooper | James H. S. “Jim” | Dem | ||
| Texas | Allred | Colin | Dem | ||
| Texas | Castro | Joaquin | Dem | Y | |
| Texas | Cuellar | Henry R. | Dem | ||
| Texas | Doggett II | Lloyd Alton | Dem | Y | |
| Texas | Escobar | Veronica | Dem | Y | 🔺 |
| Texas | Fletcher | Elizabeth Pannill “Lizzie” | Dem | ||
| Texas | Garcia | Sylvia R. | Dem | ||
| Texas | Gonzalez | Vicente | Dem | ||
| Texas | Green | Alexander “Al” | Dem | Y | |
| Texas | Jackson Lee | Sheila | Dem | Y | |
| Texas | Johnson | Eddie Bernice | Dem | ||
| Texas | Veasey | Marc Allison | Dem | ||
| Texas | Vela | Filemon B. | Dem | Y | |
| Utah | McAdams | Ben | Dem | ||
| Vermont | Welch | Peter F. | Dem | ||
| Virginia | Beyer Jr. | Donald Sternoff “Don” | Dem | Y | |
| Virginia | Connolly | Gerald Edward “Gerry” | Dem | ||
| Virginia | Luria | Elaine G. | Dem | ||
| Virginia | McEachin | Aston Donald “Donald” | Dem | ||
| Virginia | Scott | Robert Cortez “Bobby” | Dem | ||
| Virginia | Spanberger | Abigail A. | Dem | ||
| Virginia | Wexton | Jennifer T. | Dem | ||
| Washington | DelBene | Suzan Kay | Dem | see comment | |
| Washington | Heck | Dennis “Denny” | Dem | ||
| Washington | Jayapal | Pramila | Dem | Y | 🔺 |
| Washington | Kilmer | Derek | Dem | ||
| Washington | Larsen | Richard Ray “Rick” | Dem | ||
| Washington | Schrier | Kim | Dem | ||
| Washington | Smith | David Adam “Adam” | Dem | ||
| Wisconsin | Kind | Ronald James “Ron” | Dem | ||
| Wisconsin | Moore | Gwendolynne S. “Gwen” | Dem | Y | |
| Wisconsin | Pocan | Mark | Dem | Y | |
| Alabama | Aderholt | Robert Brown | GOP | ||
| Alabama | Brooks Jr. | Morris J. “Mo” | GOP | ||
| Alabama | Byrne | Bradley Roberts | GOP | ||
| Alabama | Palmer | Gary | GOP | ||
| Alabama | Roby | Martha | GOP | ||
| Alabama | Rogers | Michael Dennis “Mike” | GOP | ||
| Alaska | Young | Donald E. “Don” | GOP | ||
| Arizona | Biggs | Andy | GOP | ||
| Arizona | Gosar | Paul Anthony | GOP | ||
| Arizona | Lesko | Debbie | GOP | ||
| Arizona | Schweikert | David | GOP | ||
| Arkansas | Crawford | Eric Alan “Rick” | GOP | ||
| Arkansas | Hill | James French “French” | GOP | ||
| Arkansas | Westerman | Bruce | GOP | ||
| Arkansas | Womack | Stephen A. “Steve” | GOP | ||
| California | Calvert | Kenneth S. “Ken” | GOP | ||
| California | Cook | Paul | GOP | ||
| California | Hunter | Duncan Duane | GOP | ||
| California | LaMalfa | Doug | GOP | ||
| California | McCarthy | Kevin | GOP | ||
| California | McClintock | Thomas “Tom” | GOP | ||
| California | Nunes | Devin Gerald | GOP | ||
| Colorado | Buck | Kenneth R. “Ken” | GOP | ||
| Colorado | Lamborn | Douglas L. “Doug” | GOP | ||
| Colorado | Tipton | Scott Randall | GOP | ||
| Florida | Bilirakis | Gus Michael | GOP | ||
| Florida | Buchanan | Vernon “Vern” | GOP | ||
| Florida | Diaz-Balart | Mario | GOP | ||
| Florida | Dunn | Neal Patrick | GOP | ||
| Florida | Gaetz | Matt | GOP | ||
| Florida | Mast | Brian | GOP | ||
| Florida | Posey | William “Bill” | GOP | ||
| Florida | Rooney | Francis | GOP | ||
| Florida | Rutherford | John | GOP | ||
| Florida | Spano | Vincent Ross “Ross” | GOP | ||
| Florida | Steube | Greg W. | GOP | ||
| Florida | Waltz | Michael “Mike” | GOP | ||
| Florida | Webster | Daniel “Dan” | GOP | ||
| Florida | Yoho | Theodore Scott “Ted” | GOP | ||
| Georgia | Allen | Richard Wallen “Rick” | GOP | ||
| Georgia | Carter | Earl Leroy “Buddy” | GOP | ||
| Georgia | Collins | Douglas Allen “Doug” | GOP | ||
| Georgia | Ferguson IV | Anderson Drew “Drew” | GOP | ||
| Georgia | Graves Jr. | John Thomas “Tom” | GOP | ||
| Georgia | Hice | Jody B. | GOP | ||
| Georgia | Loudermilk | Barry D. | GOP | ||
| Georgia | Scott | James Austin “Austin” | GOP | ||
| Georgia | Woodall III | William Robert “Rob” | GOP | ||
| Idaho | Fulcher | Russ | GOP | ||
| Idaho | Simpson | Michael Keith “Mike” | GOP | ||
| Illinois | Bost | Michael J. “Mike” | GOP | ||
| Illinois | Davis | Rodney L. | GOP | ||
| Illinois | Kinzinger | Adam | GOP | ||
| Illinois | LaHood | Darin McKay | GOP | ||
| Illinois | Shimkus | John M. | GOP | ||
| Indiana | Baird | James R. “Jim” | GOP | ||
| Indiana | Banks | James E. “Jim” | GOP | ||
| Indiana | Brooks | Susan W. | GOP | ||
| Indiana | Bucshon | Larry D. | GOP | ||
| Indiana | Hollingsworth III | Joseph A. “Trey” | GOP | ||
| Indiana | Pence | Gregory J. “Greg” | GOP | ||
| Indiana | Walorski | Jackie Swihart | GOP | see comment | |
| Iowa | King | Steven A. “Steve” | GOP | ||
| Kansas | Estes | Ron | GOP | ||
| Kansas | Marshall | Roger W. | GOP | ||
| Kansas | Watkins | Steve | GOP | ||
| Kentucky | Barr | Garland “Andy” | GOP | ||
| Kentucky | Comer | James R. | GOP | ||
| Kentucky | Guthrie | Steven Brett “Brett” | GOP | ||
| Kentucky | Massie | Thomas H. | GOP | ||
| Kentucky | Rogers | Harold Dallas “Hal” | GOP | ||
| Louisiana | Abraham Jr. | Ralph Lee | GOP | ||
| Louisiana | Graves | Garret | GOP | ||
| Louisiana | Higgins | Clay | GOP | ||
| Louisiana | Johnson | James Michael “Mike” | GOP | ||
| Louisiana | Scalise | Stephen J. “Steve” | GOP | ||
| Maryland | Harris | Andrew P. “Andy” | GOP | ||
| Michigan | Amash | Justin | GOP | Y | |
| Michigan | Bergman | John W. “Jack” | GOP | ||
| Michigan | Huizenga | William P. “Bill” | GOP | ||
| Michigan | Mitchell III | Paul | GOP | ||
| Michigan | Moolenaar | John | GOP | ||
| Michigan | Upton | Frederick Stephen “Fred” | GOP | ||
| Michigan | Walberg | Timothy L. “Tim” | GOP | ||
| Minnesota | Emmer Jr. | Thomas Earl “Tom” | GOP | ||
| Minnesota | Hagedorn | James “Jim” | GOP | ||
| Minnesota | Stauber | Peter Allen “Pete” | GOP | ||
| Minnesota | Stauber | Peter Allen “Pete” | GOP | ||
| Mississippi | Guest | Michael Patrick | GOP | ||
| Mississippi | Kelly | John Trent “Trent” | GOP | ||
| Mississippi | Palazzo | Steven McCarty | GOP | ||
| Missouri | Graves Jr. | Samuel B. “Sam” | GOP | ||
| Missouri | Hartzler | Vicky Jo | GOP | ||
| Missouri | Long | Billy | GOP | ||
| Missouri | Luetkemeyer | W. Blaine | GOP | ||
| Missouri | Smith | Jason T. | GOP | ||
| Missouri | Wagner | Ann L. | GOP | ||
| Montana | Gianforte | Greg | GOP | ||
| Nebraska | Bacon | Donald John “Don” | GOP | ||
| Nebraska | Fortenberry | Jeffrey Lane “Jeff” | GOP | ||
| Nebraska | Smith | Adrian M. | GOP | ||
| Nevada | Amodei | Mark Eugene | GOP | ||
| New Jersey | Smith | Christopher Henry “Chris” | GOP | ||
| New York | Collins | Christopher Carl “Chris” | GOP | ||
| New York | Katko | John M. | GOP | ||
| New York | King | Peter T. “Pete” | GOP | ||
| New York | Reed II | Thomas W. “Tom” | GOP | ||
| New York | Stefanik | Elise M. | GOP | ||
| New York | Zeldin | Lee Michael | GOP | ||
| North Carolina | Budd | Theodore Paul “Ted” | GOP | ||
| North Carolina | Foxx | Virginia Ann | GOP | ||
| North Carolina | Holding | George Edward Bell | GOP | ||
| North Carolina | Hudson Jr. | Richard Lane | GOP | ||
| North Carolina | McHenry | Patrick Timothy | GOP | ||
| North Carolina | Meadows | Mark Randal | GOP | ||
| North Carolina | Rouzer | David Cheston | GOP | ||
| North Carolina | Walker | Bradley Mark “Mark” | GOP | ||
| North Dakota | Armstrong | Kelly M. | GOP | ||
| Ohio | Balderson | Troy | GOP | ||
| Ohio | Chabot | Steven J. “Steve” | GOP | ||
| Ohio | Davidson | Warren | GOP | ||
| Ohio | Gibbs | Robert Brian “Bob” | GOP | ||
| Ohio | Gonzalez | Anthony E. | GOP | ||
| Ohio | Johnson | Bill | GOP | ||
| Ohio | Jordan | James D. “Jim” | GOP | ||
| Ohio | Joyce | David P. “Dave” | GOP | ||
| Ohio | Latta | Robert Edward “Bob” | GOP | ||
| Ohio | Stivers | Steve E. | GOP | ||
| Ohio | Turner | Michael R. “Mike” | GOP | ||
| Ohio | Wenstrup | Brad R. | GOP | ||
| Oklahoma | Cole | Thomas Jeffery “Tom” | GOP | ||
| Oklahoma | Hern | Kevin R. | GOP | ||
| Oklahoma | Lucas | Frank D. | GOP | ||
| Oklahoma | Mullin | Markwayne | GOP | ||
| Oregon | Walden | Gregory Paul “Greg” | GOP | ||
| Pennsylvania | Fitzpatrick | Brian K. | GOP | ||
| Pennsylvania | Joyce | John | GOP | ||
| Pennsylvania | Kelly Jr. | George J. “Mike” | GOP | ||
| Pennsylvania | Marino | Thomas Anthony “Tom” | GOP | ||
| Pennsylvania | Meuser | Daniel P. “Dan” | GOP | ||
| Pennsylvania | Perry | Scott G. | GOP | ||
| Pennsylvania | Reschenthaler | Guy L. | GOP | ||
| Pennsylvania | Smucker | Lloyd K. | GOP | ||
| Pennsylvania | Thompson | Glenn William “G.T.” | GOP | ||
| South Carolina | Duncan | Jeffrey D. “Jeff” | GOP | ||
| South Carolina | Norman Jr. | Ralph W. | GOP | ||
| South Carolina | Rice Jr. | Hugh T. “Tom” | GOP | ||
| South Carolina | Timmons IV | William R. | GOP | ||
| South Carolina | Wilson | Addison Graves “Joe” | GOP | ||
| South Dakota | Johnson | Dustin “Dusty” | GOP | ||
| Tennessee | Burchett | Tim | GOP | ||
| Tennessee | DesJarlais | Scott Eugene | GOP | ||
| Tennessee | Fleischmann | Charles J. “Chuck” | GOP | ||
| Tennessee | Green | Mark E. | GOP | ||
| Tennessee | Kustoff | David | GOP | ||
| Tennessee | Roe | David Philip “Phil” | GOP | ||
| Tennessee | Rose | John W. | GOP | ||
| Texas | Arrington | Jodey Cook | GOP | ||
| Texas | Babin | Brian | GOP | ||
| Texas | Brady | Kevin Patrick | GOP | ||
| Texas | Burgess | Michael C. | GOP | ||
| Texas | Carter | John Rice | GOP | ||
| Texas | Cloud | Michael J. | GOP | ||
| Texas | Conaway | K. Michael “Mike” | GOP | ||
| Texas | Crenshaw | Daniel “Dan” | GOP | ||
| Texas | Flores | William “Bill” | GOP | ||
| Texas | Gohmert Jr. | Louis B. “Louie” | GOP | ||
| Texas | Gooden | Lance | GOP | ||
| Texas | Granger | Kay N. | GOP | ||
| Texas | Hurd | William “Will” | GOP | ||
| Texas | Marchant | Kenny Ewell | GOP | ||
| Texas | McCaul | Michael T. | GOP | ||
| Texas | Olson | Peter Graham “Pete” | GOP | ||
| Texas | Ratcliffe | John Lee | GOP | ||
| Texas | Roy | Chip | GOP | ||
| Texas | Taylor | Nicholas V. “Van” | GOP | ||
| Texas | Thornberry | William McClellan “Mac” | GOP | ||
| Texas | Weber | Randy | GOP | ||
| Texas | Williams | Roger | GOP | ||
| Texas | Wright | Ron | GOP | ||
| Utah | Bishop | Robert William “Rob” | GOP | ||
| Utah | Curtis | John | GOP | ||
| Utah | Stewart | Chris | GOP | ||
| Virginia | Cline | Benjamin Lee “Ben” | GOP | ||
| Virginia | Griffith | H. Morgan “Morgan” | GOP | ||
| Virginia | Riggleman III | Denver Lee | GOP | ||
| Virginia | Wittman | Robert J. “Rob” | GOP | ||
| Washington | Herrera Beutler | Jaime Lynn | GOP | ||
| Washington | McMorris Rodgers | Cathy Ann | GOP | ||
| Washington | Newhouse | Daniel Milton “Dan” | GOP | ||
| West Virginia | McKinley | David Bennett | GOP | ||
| West Virginia | Miller | Carol Devine | GOP | ||
| West Virginia | Mooney | Alexander Xavier “Alex” | GOP | ||
| Wisconsin | Duffy | Sean P. | GOP | ||
| Wisconsin | Gallagher | Michael John “Mike” | GOP | ||
| Wisconsin | Grothman | Glenn S. | GOP | ||
| Wisconsin | Sensenbrenner Jr. | Frank James “Jim” | GOP | ||
| Wisconsin | Steil | Bryan George | GOP | ||
| Wyoming | Cheney | Elizabeth “Liz” | GOP | ||
| North Carolina | Jones Jr. (RIP) | Walter B. | GOP | Open | |
| North Carolina | GOP | Vacant Office |
Side note: Have you ever noticed how many members of Congress are Juniors or II/III/IV in their family?
None will be women.
UPDATED — 12:00 a.m. 18-JUN-2019 —
Rep. Katie Porter from CA-45, a moderately conservative district including Orange County, threw her support behind an impeachment inquiry.
I saw a mention of 67 Dems now supporting an inquiry but I only have 64. If you know of any other House members who have now said they support an impeachment inquiry, please let me know. Thanks.
UPDATED — 5:00 p.m. 19-JUN-2019 —
Thanks to community member harpie who shared a link to NBC’s latest whip count which showed 66 House Dems and 1 House GOP member supporting an impeachment inquiry. NBC’s list deviated from CNN’s in that NBC did not include Brenda Lulenar Lawrence (D-MI) and Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX). Newly added supporters are in boldface.
[1] NBC also showed Harley Rouda as a Yes in a previous iteration but has now offered a correction:
CORRECTION (May 30, 2019, 1:25 p.m. ET): An earlier version of this article misstated the position of Rep. Harley Rouda, D-Calif., on beginning an impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump. Rouda has said he supports an impeachment inquiry only if Trump does not comply with congressional subpoenas, not before.
Nice fence sitting, Rouda, hope your pants are adequately padded. Does this include obstruction by staff/ex-staff who refuse to comply with subpoenas or no? Anybody in Rouda’s district want to call and find out which side of the fence Rouda is on today after Hope Hicks refusal to cooperate with the House?
UPDATED — 5:00 p.m. 19-JUN-2019 —
Adding Brian Higgins (D-NY) as a Yes:
Obstruction of justice is an impeachable offense. The multiple instances laid out in the Mueller report necessitate that the House launch an impeachment inquiry. pic.twitter.com/Y6wERZyorS
— Brian Higgins (@RepBrianHiggins) June 19, 2019
UPDATED — 7:30 p.m. 20-JUN-2019 —
Community member harpie shares these latest additions to the Yes column:
And community member P.J. Evans shares this link reporting Rep. Sean Casten (D-IL) has also joined the Yes chorus.
Productive day on the Yes front. Wonder how much was because of Hope Hicks’ and White House intransigent responses to questioning. House GOP caucus is still fully behind the scofflaw-in-chief, save for Justin Amash (D-MI).
UPDATED — 7:45 a.m. 21-JUN-2019 —
I’ve made a change to the spreadsheet to indicate which members of the House Judiciary Dems support an impeachment inquiry. 13 out of 24 members currently do — that’s critical mass. Chair Jerry Nadler is a likely supporter given his submission of a resolution last year for impeachment, but as chair he may be obligated to hold back until he has reached some threshold internal to the committee. Here’s the breakdown:
| House Judiciary Committee Democrats | 🔺 = For Inquiry |
| Cedric Richmond, Louisiana | 🔺 |
| David Cicilline, Rhode Island | 🔺 |
| Eric Swalwell, California | 🔺 |
| Greg Stanton, Arizona | 🔺 |
| Jamie Raskin, Maryland | 🔺 |
| Joe Neguse, Colorado | 🔺 |
| Madeleine Dean, Pennsylvania | 🔺 |
| Mary Gay Scanlon, Pennsylvania, Vice Chair | 🔺 |
| Pramila Jayapal, Washington | 🔺 |
| Steve Cohen, Tennessee | 🔺 |
| Ted Lieu, California | 🔺 |
| Val Demings, Florida | 🔺 |
| Veronica Escobar, Texas | 🔺 |
| Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, Florida | 🔺 |
| Hakeem Jeffries, New York | |
| Hank Johnson, Georgia | |
| Jerrold Nadler, New York, Chairman | |
| Karen Bass, California | |
| Lou Correa, California | |
| Lucy McBath, Georgia | |
| Sheila Jackson Lee, Texas | |
| Sylvia Garcia, Texas | |
| Ted Deutch, Florida | |
| Zoe Lofgren, California |
If your representative is one of the House Judiciary Committee Dems who have not yet thrown their support behind an impeachment inquiry, your calls matter the most right now. With all HJC Dems on board, Nadler has the political will power aligned to begin pursuit of an inquiry.
UPDATED — 1:30 p.m. 21-JUN-2019 —
Add another Yes on the board supporting impeachment inquiry:
INBOX: @LacyClayMO1 is cosponsoring resolution to impeach President Trump (https://t.co/xdG32vABSm) — and another resolution to launch an impeachment inquiry (https://t.co/M1TSE6J4n4): pic.twitter.com/KlZHyBt69b
— Jason Rosenbaum (@jrosenbaum) June 21, 2019
UPDATED — 5:50 p.m. 21-JUN-2019 —
Two more House Dems now support an impeachment inquiry — one of them is a House Judiciary member, too. That’s 14 of 24 or 58% of the committee now behind an inquiry.
Rep. Debbie Muscarsel-Powell (D-FL):
Read my thoughts on why I support opening an impeachment inquiry into the President >> https://t.co/RX8U85Wgoq pic.twitter.com/XIIJMAbnmw
— Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell (@RepDMP) June 21, 2019
And Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) changed his position.
If you call your representative, please share the results of your call in comments. Thanks. If comments close here soon because the post gets knocked down by other content, I will put up a new Whip It post.
Have I contacted my representative? No — I need to. I have zero faith he will support an inquiry because he’s both incredibly stupid and a spineless GOP rubber stamper. I’d love to know what the party or its oligarchic sponsors have on him, though.
If this state’s gerrymandering ends up tossed his seat will be at risk. I can only hope this happens sooner rather than later.
If you happen to feel like snail mailing a postcard, this image is proportioned for 4″x6″ print.
I think I still have the one the Spine campaign people put out, back around 2003. It would be wroth bringing back. (Looks like a woodcut or lino block print, white spine on black.)
Would love to see that graphic again if you can scan it.
Found the original – it’s a pdf for printing your own postcards. The Backbone campaign, 2006. I also found small images a couple of years ago – the PNG is 600×768. Let me know where to send it/them.
I just sent a strongly worded letter (email) to 12th district NJ, Bonnie Watson Coleman, and clicked the box that I would like a reply. (Which will be a form email, thx for your correspondence, and then an email sub that I cant unsub to. But I did it anyway.) I will follow up with my Senator next. “Implore” doesn’t even begin to describe it…more like outright begging.
Speaking of the all the noplant hashtags and late planting in many of the places that were flooded like Nebraska, Dems need to point out how those events will just be getting worse as we warm globally.
Since John Oliver now supports an inquiry and tells us why in this outstanding presentation, maybe this could be shared more widely.
Impeachment: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
https://youtu.be/zxT8CM8XntA
John Oliver was spot on. LOL!
PS Thanks Rayne for the laundry list. I contacted Beyer (VA) last week, he is for impeachment.
Thanks for calling Beyer. Even when our reps are a Yes on this list it’s good that they hear they have continued support.
Oops! Hey, Jenny, I just realized that you posted this John Oliver clip elsewhere earlier today. Apologies! It really is good, isn’t it?!!
YES! Can never have too much of Stephen Colbert. He is my go to for Good Vibrations. Here is last night – LOL:
Trump’s Staffers Are Coughing For A Reason
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7dftOpIbTc)
Trump Lies To, Lashes Out At George ‘Little Wiseguy’ Stephanopoulos
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OGox-J9_wY)
Jon Stewart Won’t Let Mitch McConnell Off That Easy
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICnUJl0t0Xw)
I telephoned the only Democratic representative in my state, although I am not in her district.
Thanks for putting in the effort but you should really only call your own representative. Calls outside the district aren’t logged.
I’m very disappointed in my rep: Zoe Lofgren, representing CA District 19. She totally crushed the opposition in her last election, so I feel there should be no blowback for a yes on starting impeachment inquiries. I’m calling her office tomorrow. I’m also very disappointed in our Bay Area congressional delegation. I thought about calling my former rep, Anna Eschoo, with whom I had a political relationship about 25 years ago. She isn’t a yes either. Ro Kanna represents people in my city–I feel Ishould reach out to him as well. Does it really matter that they don’t log people not in their district?
What I’ve done in the past is to use the address of a library in their district – most libraries have computers that connect to the internet, and they’re not likely to check further than “is it our district?”
I use the address of the politician with a slight change in the numbers. But this is for emailing when I do it.
Yes, it matters that you call your rep and not others. If you’re on other reps’ phones they aren’t taking calls from their own constituents. It would be better to find friends/family who live in Eschoo’s and Khanna’s districts to call them.
You might try looking for an Indivisible or Swing Left group in those districts to see if they are doing any outreach door-to-door and help them if you can.
No really good excuse for the rep from a D+24 district not to be a leader pressing for impeachment inquiry.
Granted, CA-19 is more Asian than average and more Latinx, but Lofgren should already have a solid communications system in place to ensure solid messaging toward minority constituents with regard to supporting an inquiry.
(Sorry, had meant to add this to my other comment about calling your own rep but I got hung up in analysis. Oops.)
;-) Thank you for the suggestion about reaching out to my local Indivisible group. I have a couple of friends who participate in their potlucks and they’re always inviting me.
Waiting on the reset election for NC Ninth District (Charlotte, 2020 Republican convention site).
I called my Rep. Pelosi and spoke to an aide. Needless to say there was no positive response (sorry for stating the obvious but thought I’d put it on the record here).
Jason
Thanks, Jason, appreciate the effort. You’re one of her constituents and your call matters most to her. If you have any friends or family in the district, please recruit them to call as well.
have called my rep and senators and asked them NOT to join this fool’s game. what doesn’t remove Trump will just make him stronger. Let the voters do it. We need more Senators, not political stunts.
Thanks for playing. Now what exactly are you going to do to realize your stated belief that we need more senators?
And it’d be nice if you actually said who you called.
Kaptur of OH is giving a very strange-sounding interview on Hardball (to Kornacki subbing). Asked if thinks Trump obstructed justice per MR, she says ~ too many redactions to be able to tell.
More strangeness and I don’t want to misquote (~ you had to be there/see it~), but interview just concluded and she came down as a “No.”
Lots of room for constituent education of the rep here, lol.
It sounds like she needs to read it. (I have the PDF, and epub, and I ordered the WaPo dead-tree version, because it has a timeline and a list of the players. It’s still only half the length of the Final Report of the House Judiciary Committee after Watergate, in the mass-market edition.)
Agree- per her words and other actions when Kornacki directly asked ~ ‘Based on your reading of the MR (Q as to obstruction),’~ it didn’t seem that she had done so.
To clarify, she said No to impeachment _inquiry_ at this time, even though Kornacki at least twice made it clear that he was talking about inquiry so as to get the hearings/ investigations that Kaptur said that she wanted.
No clips available that I can find, which is unfortunate because I suspect the exchange may be illustrative of a lot “low-info” reps, i.e. those not on certain committees (as she stated) or not otherwise hugely motivated to outlearn leadership talking points on this issue.
Yeah, heard that line of bs from Kaptur…got up and took the dog for a nice long walk!
I’d love to hear her try the ‘You haven’t convinced me of that’ rationale with Katie Porter. Her recent announcement to support an inquiry is here:
[ https://twitter.com/RepKatiePorter/status/1140771105189191680 ]
And here’s the Impeachment FAQ that KatiePorter (CA-45) has made available online:
[ https://porter.house.gov/sites/porter.house.gov/files/Impeachment%20-%20FAQs%20about%20the%20Mueller%20Report%2C%20impeachment%2C%20and%20more.pdf ]
Haha true, I suppose the “low-info” reps wouldn’t get the sting of that appellation…which speaks to the virtue of directness-es like “Impeach the MF.”
Glad Porter has put out a guide. She’s ‘real people’ and I think that means more will listen.
OMG! I LOVE Katie Porter!
I was just reading these comments from overnight, and was thinking we need something like a “Dummy’s Guide to the Impeachment Process”
Thank you Katie! [and fpo]
High praise from Quinta Jurecic, [whom I also admire] for Porter’s summary:
https://twitter.com/qjurecic/status/1140779108860878848
5:31 PM – 17 Jun 2019
I’m about to ask my Rep. to make this widely available in our district.
Oh, wow- Katie Porter is now a yes, ‘breaking news’ on Chris Hayes, number 67
NYT, NBC, Mercury-News….
67 House Democrats want to open an impeachment inquiry into Trump – The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/05/22/which-house-democrats-support-impeachment/
I can’t read this in private mode right now; maybe it has what you need.
Katie Porter is a “yes”. It’s in the news right now.
Deputy AG Jeffery Rosen has intervened: Manafort will be held in a federal prison instead of Rikers. There are comments about how unusual it is for someone at that level to intervene, and that most federal prisoners go to Rikers while waiting on the state of NY.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/17/nyregion/manafort-rikers.html
(I put EW’s tweet about this on the next page under Ollie’s later comment)
NYT:
https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2019/06/17/us/politics/ap-us-congress-impeachment-politics.html
I’m not on Face Book, but the Mueller Book Club seems to be going strong:
https://twitter.com/justinhendrix/status/1140797751480979456
6:45 PM – 17 Jun 2019
Hendrix adds:
https://twitter.com/justinhendrix/status/1140945057614315520
4:31 AM – 18 Jun 2019
Holzman transcript:
To be honest, the naivete on this site with respect to politics is glaring. The House should have known long ago that the political move is to pass more, extremely strangling Russian sanctions — while linking them to Russia’s refusal to extradite every single person indicted in the Special Counsel’s Office Russian hacking Indictments and framing it in terms of National Security for U.S. elections.
Force the Senate and Trump to publicly defend Russian Army attacks on U.S. elections. Let the Senate and Trump shut down the government again to protect the Russian Army’s attacks on United States elections. And run national ads showing the Trump-Putin Master/Slave video from Helsinki non-stop.
What kind of troll BS is this shit?
On the other hand, in the face of a potential wag-the-dog war with Iran (on behalf of others in the Middle East, no less), fails on infrastructure and healthcare, an inhumane if not illegal policy and tactics (think ‘kids in cages’) on the southern border, trade wars (read failed/no trade policy) with key trading partners like Canada, Mexico, China, certain W. European countries and others, an intransigent GOP-led Senate, a musical-chairs Cabinet, the findings and Constitutional implications of the Mueller Report, multiple on-going investigations including Stone, the SDNY, etc. and so on, RU sanctions may have a difficult time rising to the top of voters’ concerns now and in 2020.
Which is not to say that I may not be one of the ‘politically naive’ you refer to, but it sure seems that Trump et al. have already persuaded his minions that no one has ever been tougher on Russia which, even if not entirely true, won’t stop him/them from continuing to say so. As for a shutdown, Mitch & Co. won’t have it, no matter how convinced Trump is that it’s the best idea going. They already tried that one.
Playing the long game with no impeachment inquiry is likely to be as harmful to the Dems as it is helpful to Trump. Imagine how it is right now, but with a GOP House and Senate…no thank you.
Read the report, read the Constitution. Do the right thing, before it’s too late.
Anyway, KatiePorter (CA-45) does a much better job with this than I can:
[ https://twitter.com/RepKatiePorter/status/1140771105189191680 ]
Sent one off, followed up by phone call, to Peter Welch (VT), with Liz Holtzman’s remarks attached. (She was a great one, my rep. way back then.) I’m not sure where he stands at the moment, though: Pelosi’s secret plan to let Trump hang his ass by his own necktie, or an impeachment inquiry to be taken up and brought to a Sense of the House resolution to be thrown at the Senate.
Yeah, and I called Ruben Gallego. Greg Stanton is my congress person, but Ruben’s district is close and I have supported him strongly in the past.
Rayne, wrt the question in the update, there are three Dems not shown above as “yes”, who are on this list from HuffPo:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-impeachment-inquiry_n_5ce6caf1e4b0a2f9f28b25b2
1] Bill Pascrell D-NJ
2] Grace Napolitano D-Ca
3] Carolyn Maloney D-NY
Thanks much, harpie, I’ll update the spreadsheet with these.
EDIT: Nuts, my VPN is fighting with HuffPost’s articles. I’ll have to read that piece and update the post after I can exit my VPN. Thanks again.
Here’s the NBC list, updated 6/17/19 10AM
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/full-list-house-members-who-favor-starting-trump-impeachment-inquiry-n1011981/
There are 2 names on your list who are not on the NBC list:
1] Brenda Lulenar Lawrence, Mich.
2] Sheila Jackson Lee, Texas
So, counting everyone on both lists, I get 68 Dems and 1 Rep
Thanks much, will update as soon as I am caught up with my comms backlog. Much appreciate the assist!
No problem, Rayne. Thank YOU!
RAYNE,
Brian Higgins, D-NY-26
https://twitter.com/RepBrianHiggins/status/1141304420883423233 [(NY-26)]
4:19 AM – 19 Jun 2019
>>> 69 Dems + 1Rep
Thanks for this, will add him as a Yes. :-)
Jan Schakowsky D-Ill.-9
https://twitter.com/janschakowsky/status/1141510008892530689
5:56 PM – 19 Jun 2019
[quote video] […] Today I am announcing that I believe that the House of Representatives should begin an impeachment inquiry. […] [end quote]
>>> 70 Dems + 1 Rep.
This is from the Chicago Sun Times article linked below at June 20, 2019 at 8:29 am:
According to WaPo, Schakowsky is “senior chief deputy whip”.
Sean Casten,D-Ill-06
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1141677077004816385
5:00 AM – 20 Jun 2019
…links to:
Illinois Democrats Reps. Sean Casten, Jan Schakowsky call for Trump impeachment inquiry
Freshman Casten, who flipped a suburban Chicago district in 2018, is among the 44 House Democrats facing the toughest GOP challenges in 2020, and only the third in this group to back an impeachment inquiry.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2019/6/20/18691989/sean-casten-donald-trump-impeachment-inquiry Lynn Sweet Jun 20, 2019, 5:00am CDT
>>> 71 Dems + 1 Rep.
Thanks, harpie, I’ll update the spreadsheet as soon as I’m caught up. Appreciate the updates.
From the Sun Times article:
Here’s that list:
Democrats identify 44 vulnerable House members to defend in 2020
Almost all the members named to the Democrats’ Frontline Program are freshmen https://www.rollcall.com/news/campaigns/democrats-identify-44-vulnerable-house-members-2020
Rep. Tony Cardenas, D-Ca-29
https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1141716272201240581
7:35 AM – 20 Jun 2019
>>> 72 Dems. + 1 Rep.
Nydia Valazquez, D-NY-7
https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1141761401112993793
>>>
https://twitter.com/NydiaVelazquez/status/1141757130778775559
10:18 AM – 20 Jun 2019
>>> 73 Dems + 1 Rep.
Post and spreadsheet now updated to reflect the four new additions. Double checked the count and I concur — 73 Democrats + 1 Republican so far support an impeachment inquiry. We’re at 31% of the House Dem caucus.
Thanks, harpie, PJEvans, Jenny for keeping an eye out for these today.
Thanks for doing all the work, Rayne!
I’m bringing these over from the next open thread:
https://www.emptywheel.net/2019/06/21/to-the-phones-stop-the-gulf-of-tonkin-iran-edition/#comment-796115
1] Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, D-Fl-26
2] Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wa-09
>>> 75 Dems. + 1 Rep.
Had just seen Mucarsel-Powell’s tweet in my timeline. Thanks for this, I’ll update right now. :-)
NBC list-updated yesterday at 4:15pm-agrees with our numbers:
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1142401852434046981
5:00 AM – 22 Jun 2019
Links to:
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/full-list-house-members-who-favor-starting-trump-impeachment-inquiry-n1011981
Updated June 21, 2019, 4:15 PM EDT
My rep, Rosa DeLauro, won re-election with 64.6% of the vote, so she isn’t exactly endangered except by a young left-wing primary challenge. I’m including her reply to my email. Of course it is a generic letter sent to anybody who writes on the issue. (I can be sure of this because I was careful to specify an impeachment inquiry as opposed to a rush to voting through articles of impeachment, yet the response shows no indication of this distinction.) She seems to be playing a careful game, akin to Speaker Pelosi’s though perhaps slightly more willing to consider impeachment as an end result.
“Thank you for contacting me with your support for impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump. I appreciate your input, and welcome the opportunity to respond.
As you may know, Special Counsel Mueller recently completed his investigation and submitted his final report to the Department of Justice. A redacted version of the report was then released to the public. Despite Attorney General Barr’s political spin after the release, the Mueller report details multiple instances in which President Trump attempted to obstruct justice and end the Special Counsel’s investigation. To quote Mueller and his team from Volume II of the report, ‘if we had confidence after a thorough investigation of the facts that the President clearly did not commit obstruction of justice, we would so state.’
As such, Congress and the American people deserve to see the full Mueller report and all of its underlying evidence, as well as hear directly from Special Counsel Robert Mueller on his team’s findings. I believe the report is cause for Congress to open investigations into any attempts by President Trump or members of his administration to obstruct justice. The American people deserve answers to their concerns, and it is Congress’ responsibility to investigate these concerns. You can be sure that I will continue to support a comprehensive investigation into any potential obstruction of justice by President Trump. I believe it is essential that these investigations begin and be allowed to proceed without interruption before impeachment proceedings. However, I will keep your views in mind should articles of impeachment come to the House floor for a vote.
Again, thank you for taking the time to contact me. Please do not hesitate to contact me on any other matter of interest to you in the future.”
If you contacted her last month it’s time to do it again. Thanks for sharing your results to date.
The response I got from the latest email to Brad Sherman:
(I had also suggested in it that they fix their website, as many people don’t have either FB or Twitter and prefer to email him.)
OT: Shanahan just bowed out as SecDef.
“More time with his family” (The domestic violence charges had nothing to do with it I’m sure)
What a circus…suppose now we’ll get Pompeo as ‘official’ acting secretary for as long as they can get away with it.
They’re going with the Sec of the Army. Who was a Raytheon lobbyist. Some speculation is there about another “acting” secretary, who will withdraw at about 200 days. (The legal limit is 210.)
Mulvaney is too busy?
From Wikipedia re Sec. of Army, Mark Esper: “Prior to his current position, he served as vice president of government relations at Raytheon.”
Is that the same Raytheon that makes guided missiles? The sort of missiles that no doubt are part of the pending/disputed arms sale to SA?
Well, what d’ya know. Wonder where he’ll go when Trump’s done with him.
Esper info: [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Esper ]
LOL re “Mulvaney” – good one, pjb!
Yep. All the president’s abusive men being exposed. And McConnell has yet to bring the Violence Against Women’s Act to the floor. Speaks volumes.
https://twitter.com/CarolLeonnig/status/1141031110278897664
10:13 AM – 18 Jun 2019
Links to:
As Trump’s defense pick withdraws, he addresses violent domestic incidents; June 18 at 1:15 PM
…the details in this story…wow
Domestic violence impacts everyone in the family. I would like to hear his ex-wife’s side of the story now that his has been reported.
The face-punching incident: she claims he hit her; he claims she hit him.
The baseball-bat incident: kid beat her with a bat, causing serious injuries to her. Shanahan claims she’d been verbally abusing the kid.
Sad situation for all family members. Violence breeds violence. Children experiencing violence have the potential of becoming a violent individual. Children learn what they live.
I sent/tweeted @RepScott Perry (R, PA 10) links to Katie Porter’s impeachment FAQ and asked that he post it on his website so that his constituents might be better informed on issues. Not expecting anything from this Trumper and Freedom Caucus member, but I am hopeful that over time he’ll realize that his constituents (and they know who they are) are less and less likely to make the same mistake twice.
In a similar vein, I’m patiently awaiting Sen. Toomey’s response to my question re specific steps PA has taken to mitigate foreign and/or domestic interference/hacking in upcoming elections, particularly in light of recent comments by Trump. So far, he’s speechless.
In the meantime we’ll just keep on keepin’ on.
I just sent the link to Sherman – i know he’s for impeachment, but I said that it would benefit his constituents if he posted the link or the entire PDF, with credit to her.
LOL fpo, now you’re the one with the too-kind, mild language (‘patiently awaiting’ anything as regards Toomey). I would love to see that response if you ever get one, which I doubt because he’d have to credit Wolfe/etc/ with doing anything about our election security (re new machines, e.g.).
Ha! Guilty as charged ;))
Truth be told, I’ve been relentless with Toomey over the last 20 months or so. Trump’s last confessional with Stephanopoulos prompted the election security query. My questions or comments often don’t match any of the drop-down ‘topic’ options on his site, and I’ve been including ‘no reply necessary – or expected’ lately. But I’ll gladly post his response should I get one.
It’s important to them know we’re out here, paying attention, taking notes, including when they get something right, tho Wolf seems to get most of those.
I was going to comment above to someone else– Geoff, I think it was– that anyone who hands over an email address for a reply is indeed _brave_ (re lists for life…). Outgoing communiques only, here.
So for that reason the only Toomey feedback I get is whatever’s public, and I’d love to see anything you can extract-mine out of that office.
(also bugging me *Wolf above in my reply. I usually ignore typos/autocorrects after-the-edit-window but it’s a name, so, *.)
ETA: on his (or anyone’s) getting it right: that one time Toomey dared to put out that wiffling tweet-thread about voting against Trump’s emergency declaration: I took full credit for that victory (“I” meaning citizen callers/writers) because _he_ clearly could not stand to take credit for that vote himself.
Point taken on the e/m address; decision wasn’t made lightly. Having done consulting work for one (D) administration here and spent enough time in the belly of the beast, I said f**k it – most of my communiques read like an op-ed piece anyway, and usually include a bit of self-deprecating humor to tamp down any potential for animosity…kill ’em with kindness. And any list that would have me as an item…well. ;))
Yeah, Toomey is in for a penny, in for a pound with Trump. I remember his riff on the emergency declaration vote. I suspect he’d like a few more ‘opportunities’ like that one to curry favor with independents – my early ‘neighborhood’ research says PA won’t do Trump a 2nd time…but we’ll see – there’s no accounting for the aforementioned ‘security’ issues at hand.
Wolf’s a decent guy, drives his Jeep to work every day…sure he’d look right past the typo!
I called Rep. Joe Courtney’s office in May and encouraged him to put whatever screws he can to Trump and his apologists and enablers. He (his office) responded by mail (in a letter dated May 30), writing, in part:
“Thank you for contacting me regarding the possible impeachment of President Trump. … Like you, I have deep concerns about the conduct of President Trump, and many of those around him in his campaign and his administration, both leading up to the 2016 election and after he took office. I strongly support the full exercise of Congress’s constitutional power—and I would argue its constitutional duty—to thoroughly investigate the broad range of allegations regarding foreign interference in our elections, improprieties in the president’s finances, and the decisions and actions he has taken while in office. Regarding the Mueller report—which I have read—Congress has plenty more work to do to flesh out in public its findings of Russian interference in the 2016 election and obstruction of justice. …
“Regarding the latter, Mueller’s most recent statement that if his office ‘had confidence that the President clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so,’ is a clarion call for Congress to exercise its oversight role. While Mueller may have been limited as an employee of the Justice Department in his ability to draw clear conclusions against a sitting president, Congress has no such limitations. Right now, at least six committees in the House … are conducting in-depth investigations into a broad slate of questions raised in Mueller’s report, as well as other critical matters beyond the report. While President Trump’s administration, as well as his personal attorneys, are attempting to block these investigations at every turn, the law—based on the Constitution—remains firmly on our side as a coequal branch of government.
“At this time, I support allowing the committees to continue utilizing all of the tools available to Congress to dig into the issues raised in the Mueller report and other investigations. As a former attorney, I recognize how critical it is to gather as much evidence as possible before pursuing any course of action. These investigations, and whatever evidence they uncover, will guide what comes next, so it is essential that these committees have the chance to continue their work and collect the facts, testimony, and evidence needed. I am firmly committed to taking this process one step at a time to methodically uncover the truth, to inform the American public, and build the case for any steps that may be needed to ensure accountability wherever it is required.”
I called Rep. Courtney’s office again this morning and asked if the congressman’s thinking has changed or evolved in any direction since the letter was sent. The person with whom I spoke didn’t know and said he’d find out.
He took my mailing address. Blah, blah, blah …
—David
(Connecticut)
Argh. Frustrating filibustering blah-de-blah. Time to call/write him again because a lot has happened in the last month.
Thanks for exercising your civics and sharing the results.
I called Zoe Lofgren’s DC ofc this morning. Not knowing how to approach this, I talked to the person who answered the phone who didn’t take my name, address, or any identifying information about me — thus wouldn’t know (and apparently didn’t care), if I was a constituent or not. Next I called Zoe’s local office and had a longer discussion with an aide who suggested I read the LA Times article (https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-congress-impeachment-democrats-zoe-lofgren-20190611-story.html) about why she doesn’t support an impeachment inquiry. He also said I should call the DC office. I told him I already had and that they were disinterested in my comment. I expressed that I thought she should support an impeachment inquiry. It was duly noted. I hope this link is clean — I’m not up to speed on how exactly to post links here.
Do keep in mind when you call your phone number is logged. While it’s possible for someone to use a phone assigned any area code, most constituents in a district call using one of the area codes assigned to that district.
It’s probably a lot easier if you’re in an area where there are “overlaid” area codes, like mine. (You are, if you have to dial 1 plus the area code for everything including the next-door neighbor.)
Hey — anybody still wading around here looking for a little thought exercise?
What would Articles of Impeachment against Pence look like?
That’s a good question.
There’s his mismanagement of the transition team: he ignored warnings about Flynn.
There’s how he got picked to be the VP candidate, in the first place – that’s never really been explained. (I can’t see Tr*mp picking him, without a big push or a heft financial incentive.)
There’s his apparent influence on those “religious freedom” bills that are about getting government backing for particular sects, and f*ck everyone else.
Now you’re gonna make my head explode.
I’ll just leave these here for now as a stimulator:
Oath of office of the Vice President of the United States
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oath_of_office_of_the_Vice_President_of_the_United_States
Oaths of Office For Federal Officials
https://www.thoughtco.com/oaths-of-office-for-federal-officials-3368324
5 U.S. Code § 3331 – Oath of office
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/5/3331
1] https://twitter.com/heatherscope/status/1141332774999273479
6:11 AM – 19 Jun 2019
2] Kyle Cheney responds:
https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1141332913168035840
6:12 AM – 19 Jun 2019
3] …to which Marcy responds:
https://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/1141333506813038595
6:14 AM – 19 Jun 2019
The essential truth of the matter is Dems will never impeach so long as Trump continues to receive to have the backing of a sizeable chunk of the US electorate. They’re just as scared of his base as GOP politicians are. Those voters are your real problem, Trump is just the symptom.
This is absolute garbage. The members of the House swear an oath to office. It is actually pretty specific. Polls and temporal personal politics are not a part of that oath, nor the Constitution, nor the Federalist papers authored by the Founders behind the Constitution to found and underlay it.
“Sizeable chunk of the electorate” is your personal bugbear. Trump didn’t win the popular vote. He won the electoral college with the help of Russian interference and multiple forms of voter suppression. The dynamics have changed along with four years’ worth of attrition — more young voters, fewer older voters, and the young ones are far more likely to vote for Democrats.
I called Takano’s office (CA 41). He was one of the reps that did the CSPAN “Read the Mueller Report” thing, but has not obviously come out endorsing impeachment. He is up in 2020, but its a D+12 district. There is no excuse for him to shirk away from this. Re “whip it good”. Devo at the palace from 87 or 88 something like that is an awesome live album, at least IMHO. Has aged well, even my kids rock out to it. “Takes courage to be a Devo fan these days”.
So your call to Takano yielded nothing new, is that what you’re saying? I am thinking about posting links in the spreadsheet to users’ results here in comments — a clear statement will be helpful to that end. Thanks.
Aide was not available at the moment. So I just left my opinion and contact info. Followed up with email. If I get some answer regarding his position I’ll update.
Takano’s office responded to my specifically worded query regarding his stance on impeachment. The response, in essence, laid out the case for impeachment without mentioning it, followed by a paragraph on the importance of holding Trump accountable for his actions and derelictions, again without referencing impeachment at all. So I take it his current position on impeachment is “the thing that must not be spoken aloud”. I appreciate the response, although obviously a disappointing one from my point of view.
Interesting. At least it is not a “no” I guess. Almost have more appreciation for those that will just say “nope” though rather than trying to wishy wash around the answer.
And thank you for following up with the response.
Rayne,
Since your last thread on this I have heard from Rep. Walorski, R IN-2, by letter. (By the way, your commiseration for being represented by same is appreciated.) She again elided my (your) question to her, has she read the report? She references AG Barr’s “summary” as dispositive, and claims to be focused on “doing the people’s business.” I have not received the courtesy of even a brush off letter from my two Senators.
Thanks for sharing your results. I feel your pain. At least I have two Democratic senators who will take the time to respond in writing (thought they probably dread hearing from me LOL).
Yesterday, called Susan del Bene (D-WA 1). Spoke to a mum staffer. Had a good-natured chat on the merits of impeachment and included Porter’s crossover in case she hadn’t heard.
Today, after the hearing debacle that mortified me as an alum of “MustSeeTV,” I sent Congresswoman del Bene an email dripping (more like ‘drenched’) in sarcasm. An excerpt:
“Every day, this party is being deservingly mocked and ridiculed. And this slow monotonous prime-time crawl is the preferred panacea to the “most despised President in America?””
“…Meanwhile, continue as a party, to pat yourselves on the back for exposing the criminal our President is. With each failed Congressional hearing, Trump is being viewed as he sees himself — a winner who can get away with anything. Congratulations, he is.
Finally, dare not break your losing streak by venturing out with a bit of muscle, might, and, dare I say, courage to even possibly consider impeachment. Too risky you say? No, just keep reassuring yourselves that you’re on the side of right and when has that ever failed you or us?”
Thanks for sharing your results. Try again next week if the logjam hasn’t broken.
Hi Kick The Darkness, have to agree. Just because you did not get the desired results is okay. What counts is that you tried. Keep doing so. del Bene is not lost at all, keep at it it. Some things,I hope/think we do agree on.
OT – “Former Trump business partner Felix Sater set to testify Friday before House Intelligence Committee” – The Washington Post
(in a closed hearing)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/former-trump-business-partner-felix-sater-set-to-testify-friday-before-house-intelligence-committee/2019/06/19/2258a428-92c2-11e9-b570-6416efdc0803_story.html
That promises to be a rating’s juggernaut.
Felix Sater
Lots of food for thought in this article about Felix Sater:
“Tell Us, Mr. Sater, About Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin” – WhoWhatWhy
https://whowhatwhy.org/2019/06/21/tell-us-mr-sater-about-donald-trump-and-vladimir-putin/
Rayne, just saw this article:
Daily Kos readers call their member of Congress to ask: “Did you read the Mueller report?”
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/6/18/1865654/-374-Daily-Kos-readers-called-their-member-of-Congress-to-ask-Did-you-read-the-Mueller-Report
thanks — I should have added a spreadsheet to my post when I asked this a couple weeks ago so we could keep track.
Rep Jan Schakowsky (Illinois) made a statement for impeachment inquiry.
https://twitter.com/janschakowsky/status/1141510008892530689
Thanks for that, Jenny, that’s a reversal from a couple weeks ago. I’ll update the spreadsheet.
Hey, Rayne, this is OT but I thought you might like it
“Samantha Bee Begs Longshot 2020 Democrats to Drop Out Now: Stop ‘Wasting Your Time’”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/samantha-bee-begs-longshot-2020-democrats-to-drop-out-now-stop-wasting-your-time
Sean Casten (D-IL) has come out in favor of an impeachment inquiry.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2019/6/20/18691989/sean-casten-donald-trump-impeachment-inquiry