Vermont House Speaker to allow floor vote on impeachment

By Shay Totten, Vermont Guardian

Reversing weeks of steadfast disapproval to take up a resolution calling for Congress to initiate impeachment proceedings of Pres. George W. Bush and Vice Pres. Dick Cheney, Democratic House Speaker Gaye Symington said Tuesday she would let such a measure come to a vote tomorrow on the House floor.

That vote will take place tomorrow afternoon when the House convenes at 1 p.m.

Until now, it was largely believed that Symington, of Jericho, would have any additional resolution or bill sent to committee, like she did with a similar bill introduced earlier this year. That bill, with 20 co-sponsors, has languished in committee, the same fate likely to be had by any similar measure.

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