{"id":18036,"date":"2023-09-20T00:21:50","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T05:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=18036"},"modified":"2023-09-20T00:21:52","modified_gmt":"2023-09-20T05:21:52","slug":"us-house-panel-sets-first-biden-impeachment-inquiry-hearing-for-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=18036","title":{"rendered":"US House Panel Sets First Biden Impeachment Inquiry Hearing for Next Week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The US president earlier wished House Republicans \u201clots of luck\u201d in their impeachment endeavor, which White House spokesperson Ian Sams derided as \u201csilly political Washington games.\u201d<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Republican-controlled US House Oversight Committee announced their first hearing will take place next week in an effort led by hard-right lawmakers intent on bringing impeachment articles against US President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) initiated the inquiry last week, citing \u201cserious and credible\u201d allegations<\/u><\/a> relating to the president\u2019s alleged association with his son Hunter Biden\u2019s foreign business relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oversight Committee spokesperson Jessica Collins claimed Tuesday<\/u><\/a> the hearing would \u201cfocus on constitutional and legal questions surrounding the President\u2019s involvement in corruption and abuse of public office.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The impeachment effort by Republicans has more recently become emboldened by the <\/strong>recent revelation<\/strong><\/u><\/strong><\/a> that the commander-in-chief used a number of pseudonymous email accounts during his time as vice president during the Obama administration, with cryptic usernames like \u201crobinware456\u201d and \u201cRobert.L.Peters.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A recent House Oversight Committee report<\/u><\/a> showed Hunter Biden presented his father as his business partner in email exchanges with clients, offering up the current president\u2019s personal cellphone number for verification.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biden, however, has repeatedly denied involvement in his son\u2019s business practices. In 2013, an Obama White House spokesperson claimed<\/u><\/a> using email addresses with alternate aliases is an effort to prevent spam and abuse \u201cconsistent with prior administrations of both parties.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The impeachment inquiry comes amidst growing concern about a <\/strong>potential government shutdown<\/strong><\/u><\/strong><\/a> next month as the House remains at an impasse regarding a funding agreement. Conservatives in Congress, particularly members of the right-wing House Freedom Caucus, have been pushing McCarthy to launch the inquiry for weeks.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tensions between McCarthy and right-wing partisans have reached nearly mythical proportions, with House Freedom Caucus members constantly threatening to dismiss McCarthy from his position as House speaker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fact, earlier reports cited an incident during a closed-door meeting in which McCarthy reportedly dared caucus members to give him the boot. \u201cMove the f***ing motion,\u201d McCarthy reportedly said, rebuffing the threats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recent polling<\/u><\/a>\u00a0shows half of American voters believe Biden was involved in his son Hunter\u2019s business dealings with Ukraine and China, with 35% believing the president is guilty of illegal acts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The US president earlier wished House Republicans \u201clots of luck\u201d in their impeachment endeavor, which White House spokesperson Ian Sams derided as \u201csilly political Washington games.\u201d The Republican-controlled US House Oversight Committee announced their first hearing will take place next week in an effort led by hard-right lawmakers intent on bringing impeachment articles against US […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":18037,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[22531],"class_list":["post-18036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-a-u-s-house-of-representatives-panel-will-hold-a-hearing-next-week-on-the-biden-impeachment-inquiry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18038,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18036\/revisions\/18038"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}