Skip to content
RollCall logo

Heard on the Hill

Tater tots, swamp rats and an impeachment inquiry: Congressional Hits and Misses

Week of Sept. 23, 2019

Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer holds up a copy of the transcript of President Donald Trump’s phone call with Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy during his press conference on impeachment in the Capitol on Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2019. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer holds up a copy of the transcript of President Donald Trump’s phone call with Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy during his press conference on impeachment in the Capitol on Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2019. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
By Thomas McKinless
Posted September 27, 2019 at 3:16pm

By Thursday evening, Rep. Earl L. “Buddy” Carter could barely eke out a basic unanimous consent request.

“It’s been a long week,” he said with a chuckle on the House floor. Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the House would begin an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, and that was just Tuesday, folks.

[jwp-video n=”1″]

Recent Stories

Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., leaves budget reconciliation negotiations to open the House on Thursday.

GOP leaders try to keep Friday reconciliation markup on track

Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., left, questions Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth during his Senate Armed Services Committee confirmation hearing on Jan. 14. Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, is at right.

Senate Republicans halt resolution on El Salvador deportations

Chairman Jim Risch, R-Idaho, and ranking member Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., are seen during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Jan. 15.

Senate panel leaders back Trump’s lifting of sanctions on Syria

Capitol Lens | Speaker mode

Activists gather with signs at the Supreme Court before the court heard oral arguments Thursday about President Donald Trump‘s birthright citizenship executive order.

Supreme Court sounds open to limits on nationwide injunctions

At the Races: Democrats go back to school