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Democrats weigh formal impeachment vote as probe quickens

By LISA MASCARO, MARY
CLARE JALONICK and LAU-
RIE KELLMAN
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) —
House Democrats are
gauging support for a vote
to formally authorize the
impeachment inquiry as
another official testified
Tuesday in the deepening
probe of President Don-
ald Trump's efforts to have
Ukraine investigate Joe Bi-
den.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi is ex-
pected to meet privately
with Democratic lawmak-
ers later Tuesday to survey
attitudes about a possible
vote, according to people
granted anonymity to dis-
cuss the planning.
She told reporters she'd
have more to say "later,"
after the evening meeting
with House colleagues.
Trump, who calls the im-
peachment inquiry an "ille-
gitimate process," has pres-
sured Pelosi to take a formal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State George Kent, center, arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2019, as he is
vote. Republicans want to scheduled to testify before congressional lawmakers as part of the House impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump.
test politically vulnerable Associated Press
Democrats with a roll call
that could be difficult in ar- gress is well within its power of checks and balances, the chamber on Tuesday march toward impeach-
eas where Trump remains to conduct oversight of the and no vote is needed. suggesting Democrats ment.
popular. But Pelosi has so executive branch as part Senate Majority Leader were trying to “cancel out”
far resisted, saying Con- of the Constitution's system Mitch McConnell opened Trump’s election with the Continued on Page 4