Pelosi doesn't want to answer your impeachment questions

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Pelosi doesn’t want to answer your impeachment questions

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., conducts a news conference in the Capitol to call on the Senate to vote on the Bipartisan Background Checks Act on Monday, September 9, 2019. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

By Nathan Ouellette

Posted September 12, 2019 at 2:08pm

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi‘s Thursday press conference had one topic off limits, the one on every reporter’s mind: impeachment.

Impeachment dominated much of the questions following her opening statement, specifically because the House Judiciary Committee had voted on new investigative procedures into an impeachment inquiry on the president earlier in the day.

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