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On the recordDecember 11, 2019
This Committee, the Judiciary Committee in the House, when it impeached Judge Thomas Porteous from Louisiana, which my colleague is very aware of, and it went over to the Senate and was voted on unanimously, 96 to zero, had the same exact language in it.
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Cedric Richmond
Democratic · Louisiana

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Richmond argues that the language used in the impeachment articles against Trump is not extraordinary, referencing a previous impeachment.

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