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aide spoke on condition of anonymity because official plans for
floor action remained fluid. Earlier on Monday, a Republican
lawmaker said House Speaker Mike Johnson disclosed plans for a
Thursday vote at a closed-door meeting, a time frame that had
also been echoed by other Republicans.
The House is due to leave Washington on Thursday for a year-end
holiday break of more than three weeks.
House Republicans accuse the Democratic president and his family
of improperly profiting from policy decisions Biden participated
in as vice president during President Barack Obama's 2009-2017
administration.
They have also accused the U.S. Department of Justice of
inappropriately interfering with an investigation into Biden's
businessman son Hunter Biden. The Justice Department denies
wrongdoing.
Republican Representative Kelly Armstrong on Thursday introduced
a 14-page resolution that would allow the full House to vote on
authorizing the probe.
House Republicans have so far failed to produce evidence tying
Biden's actions as vice president to his son's businesses, and
it is unlikely that the Senate, where Biden's Democratic Party
holds a slim majority, would vote to convict the president if
the House did pass articles of impeachment.
Representative Byron Donalds, a Republican member of one of
three committees investigating Biden, told Fox News on Sunday
that he expects the inquiry to wrap up within the next two
months and the House to draft articles of impeachment sometime
in the spring.
(Reporting by David Morgan; additional reporting by Makini
Brice; Editing by Scott Malone and Stephen Coates)
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