House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told Democratic caucus members in a closed-door meeting on Tuesday that the body will vote on sending the articles of impeachment against President Trump to the Senate on Wednesday.
Pelosi also said that the House would take up a resolution to appoint impeachment managers who would present the House’s case against the president during a Senate trial, Rep. Carolyn Maloney confirmed to the Post.
The Manhattan Democrat described the atmosphere in the meeting room as “intense and purposeful,” adding that Democrats are in “absolute unity.”
Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, speaking to reporters after the caucus meeting, said impeachment managers who will present the House’s case against Trump in the Senate will be named “between this moment we are in now and the articles being debated on the floor.”
Jeffries, a member of the House Judiciary Committee, said the “ball is in the Senate’s court.”
“The next step is simple. The senate should conduct a fair trial. A fair trial involves witnesses and documents. What is the president hiding from the American people?” he said.
He urged Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Republicans in the Senate to call former national security adviser John Bolton and acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney to testify.
Pelosi, a California Democrat, has been holding up the articles passed by the House on Dec. 18 to pressure McConnell to announce the framework of how a trial would proceed in the Senate.
Rep. Kevin McCarthy, the Republican leader of the House, said “there was nothing gained” by Pelosi holding up the impeachment articles.
Rep. Liz Cheney, a member of House Republican leadership, echoed McCarthy’s sentiments.
“Obviously, after saying for months that it was urgent that President Trump be impeached the speaker of the House then sat on the articles for many, many weeks,” she said, “Unclear exactly what she believes she accomplished by it.”