House Republicans say they plan to bring Biden impeachment inquiry to House vote

House Republicans plan to hold a House vote on an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, according to comments from several members to the Daily Caller News Foundation on Friday.

Republican House launched an impeachment inquiry into Biden on Sept. 12 without a full House vote, with a mandate to gather more information pending further action, such as a vote on articles of impeachment. On Friday, after a House Republican Conference meeting to discuss the issue, several House Republicans indicated they plan to vote on expanding the investigation in the House, perhaps as soon as next week, according to their comments

“We should certainly vote to continue the investigation and have a formal vote to make sure we're having the impeachment investigation as a body and I hope we do that soon,” Republican Rep. Chip Roy of Texas told the DCNF. “I want to be sooner rather than later. We have to keep working to socialize with the conference. We want to follow the facts wherever they lead.”

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“We need to lay out all the facts,” said Rep. Brian Mast, R-Florida. When asked about a vote, he said he “thinks[s] it will come to that at some point.”

“I think we're going to ask for a House vote for a formal impeachment inquiry,” Republican Rep. Carlos Giménez of Florida told the DCNF.

“I think we'll get to it. We'll get to it later in the week. Next week, for sure,” House Rules Committee Chairman Tom Cole told reporters.

Parallel investigations into the Biden family, specifically the foreign businesses of his son Hunter Biden, who was accused on September 14 for three alleged crimes related to firearms — have been done by the House Judiciary Committee, the House Oversight Committee and the House Ways and Means Committee. The chairman of the Oversight Committee, Republican Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, indicated that his committee would release a report documenting its findings as part of the process.

“As soon as we are done with the statement and receive all emails, pseudonymous emails and all [other] emails that we've requested, everything that the White House has obstructed … once we get it and we have all the statements, we'll do the report,” Comer told reporters, referring to a planned deposition of Hunter Biden before the committee.. Hunter Biden had done this before offered to testify at a public hearing, although this offer was rejected by Comer and the Republicans on the committee.

“You're talking about a white guy from a powerful family who has told the IRS, the FBI and the DOJ to go fly a kite. He's not going to tell the House Oversight Committee. He's going to have the deposition and then the public hearing,” Comer said.

Comer indicated that he is not currently taking a plenary vote on the investigation. However, he noted that his committee is the primary venue for investigations into Biden regarding his impeachment, saying that “the investigation will be the Oversight Committee. If it comes to impeachment, then it will be the judiciary.”

“House Republicans have collected an extraordinary amount of evidence in their investigation of Hunter Biden's business activities,” read a memo from House Oversight Committee Democrats discovered by DCNF in the hallway of the U.S. Capitol . “And this evidence adds to the evidence gathered by Senate Republicans who conducted their own investigation into Hunter Biden in 2020.”

“I think our conference came home last week and they heard people from Walmart, people from Main Street, who said, 'Find out the truth about Joe Biden's knowledge and involvement in the shady business games of the his family,” Comer said.

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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