House Republicans on June 22 managed to stave off a vote on a resolution to impeach President Joe Biden introduced by Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.), instead sending it to two committees.
The 219-208 party-line vote sent the resolution to the Judiciary and Homeland Security Committees, which oversee impeachments and immigration policy respectively.
Typically, an impeachment investigation begins with the Judiciary Committee. However, Boebert bypassed that path with her privileged resolution, skipping the committee procedure resulting in only two days for House leaders to schedule a vote. The shock move threatened to divide the party and disrupt its ongoing investigations into the Biden family….