The House Rules Committee advanced a resolution on Dec. 12 to formalize the impeachment inquiry of President Joe Biden.
The panel, in a party-line vote of 9-4, approved the resolution. It is now set to be voted on the House floor on Dec. 13.
In his opening statement, the committee’s chairman, Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.) said that the vote is “one of the gravest and most consequential responsibilities of the House of Representatives” and “is an occasion I do not relish.”
The 14-page measure, put forth by Rep. Kelly Armstrong (R-N.D.), instructs the House Ways and Means, Oversight and Accountability, and Judiciary committees to continue their probe of President Biden, who has come under Republican scrutiny for allegedly profiting from his time as vice president and afterward through family foreign business dealings, including with China, that involved his son Hunter Biden….
