{"id":177034,"date":"2020-01-15T23:26:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T04:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/01\/15\/and-the-balloon-goes-up\/"},"modified":"2020-01-15T23:26:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T04:26:00","slug":"and-the-balloon-goes-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/01\/15\/and-the-balloon-goes-up\/","title":{"rendered":"And the Balloon Goes Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The House of Representatives has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/schiff-nadler-lead-group-of-house-managers-to-prosecute-trump-in-senate-impeachment-trial\/2020\/01\/15\/9cc6101e-37af-11ea-bf30-ad313e4ec754_story.html\">selected managers and transmitted the impeachment to the U.S. Senate<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">House Speaker Nancy Pelosi tapped two trusted committee chairmen to lead the team that will make the case in the Senate for President Trump\u2019s removal from office, supported by a relatively small cast of additional impeachment \u201cmanagers.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Confirming widespread speculation that swirled for weeks as she held back the articles of impeachment, Pelosi (D-Calif.) turned to House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam B. Schiff (D-Calif.) and Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) to lead the House team. She made the announcement at a Wednesday news conference after keeping the cast of managers under tight wraps for weeks.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Joining Schiff and Nadler are Reps. Jason Crow (D-Colo.), Val Demings (D-Fla.), Sylvia Garcia (D-Tex.), Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) and Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.).<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The seven-member team is smaller than the 13-member squad that presented articles of impeachment against President Bill Clinton to the Senate in 1999, reflecting a more tightly controlled approach to the investigation.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I still think that they should have held on so they could incorporate the Parnas documents get testimony from John Bolton, et al.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s hoping that Schiff is taking lead, because Nadler has been less than impressive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House of Representatives has selected managers and transmitted the impeachment to the U.S. Senate: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi tapped two trusted committee chairmen to lead the team that will make the case in the Senate for President Trump\u2019s removal from office, supported by a relatively small cast of additional impeachment \u201cmanagers.\u201dConfirming widespread speculation that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[447,560,374],"class_list":["post-177034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-congress","tag-impeach","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177034"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}