# No House of Representatives vote on Impeachment. **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [October 20, 2019, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-house-of-representatives-vote-on-impeachment/842060 "2019-10-20T23:31:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2019, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-house-of-representatives-vote-on-impeachment/842060/41 "2019-10-21T17:01:31Z")
> [@Tempe\_Jeff](#): > > OUR Constitution, unless you forgot. The fact you said theirs is troubling on it’s face. The House of Representatives has the sole power of impeachment. That’s in OUR Constitution. “They” - the members of the House - get to write the rules. That’s in OUR Constitution. The fact that you think you can interpret the rules to say what they don’t say because the President of the United States ignores them, now THAT’S disturbing on its face. ---
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2019, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-house-of-representatives-vote-on-impeachment/842060/42 "2019-10-21T18:06:58Z")
> [@Tempe\_Jeff](#): > > So does obfuscation to prevent inquiry. The Constitution requires a vote. Are you against the Constitution? If you show us where it says this it would go a long ways toward advancing your theory. ---
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2019, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-house-of-representatives-vote-on-impeachment/842060/43 "2019-10-21T18:12:44Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > If that same hack had asserted that Speaker Pelosi needs to walk naked down Fifth Avenue before the subpoenas were valid, would that be your talking point? If she did that she could be shot! (Not that the **perpetrator** would ever be charged). ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2019, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-house-of-representatives-vote-on-impeachment/842060/44 "2019-10-21T18:13:35Z")
> [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](#): > > If you show us where it says this it would go a long ways toward advancing your theory. Or completely blowing it out of the water. ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2019, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-house-of-representatives-vote-on-impeachment/842060/45 "2019-10-21T18:20:28Z")
For those interested in an actual answer: On January 3, 2019, the House voted 234-197 to approve the rules for the House for the 116th Congress. This vote did two things: extended the rules for subpoenas that were in effect for the 115th Congress – > [@](#): > > For the purpose of carrying out any of its functions and duties under this rule and rule X … a committee or subcommittee is authorized … to require, by subpoena or otherwise, the attendance and testimony of such witnesses and the production of such books, records, correspondence, memoranda, papers, and documents as it considers necessary. and also added a revised rule allowing committees to take depositions – > [@](#): > > During the One Hundred Sixteenth Congress, the chair of a standing committee (other than the Committee on Rules), and the chair of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, upon consultation with the ranking minority member of such committee, may order the taking of depositions, including pursuant to subpoena, by a member or counsel of such committee. ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2019, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-house-of-representatives-vote-on-impeachment/842060/46 "2019-10-21T18:51:33Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Moderating: > > Before this plays out I’m not sure if there is a GQ answer. It’s not directly related to an election so I won’t move it there. There seems to be a debate about what will happen so that’s where it will go. So moved. Maybe, until this all plays out there should be a temporary new forum devoted to impeachment, to be closed when the process is completed. Just a suggestion to the mods. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-house-of-representatives-vote-on-impeachment/842060.md?page=2)