Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Spars With Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer Over Trump Impeachment
By Fox News // December 17, 2019
dismissing the push as a "fishing expedition"
ABOVE VIDEO: McConnell rips Schumer’s requests for Senate impeachment trial: This could set a ‘nightmarish precedent’
(FOX NEWS) – Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell struck back Tuesday at his Democratic counterpart’s calls for an in-depth impeachment trial featuring multiple new witnesses, dismissing the push as a “fishing expedition” that would set a “nightmarish precedent.”
“The Senate is meant to act as judge and jury, to hear a trial, not to re-run the entire fact-finding investigation because angry partisans rushed sloppily through it,” he said on the Senate floor.
In a Sunday letter, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer had called for the chamber to subpoena new documents and call witnesses who had been blocked by the White House during the impeachment inquiry on the House side.
McConnell, R-Ky., claimed that such investigative steps, though, were part of the House role — not a mission for the Senate. He warned that entertaining Schumer’s proposal to do House lawmakers’ “homework” could invite a string of future “dubious” and “frivolous” impeachment inquiries.
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