How California Representatives Voted On Impeachment Inquiry

The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday approved eight pages of procedures to take the impeachment inquiry against President Trump to nationally broadcast public hearings.

The resolution defining the scope of the next phase of the inquiry was approved mainly along party lines, 232-196.

Here’s how representatives in California voted, along with the areas they represent:

YES:

Pete Aguilar (D) — San Bernardino County
Nanette Barragán (D) — Los Angeles
Karen Bass (D) — Los Angeles
Ami Bera (D) — Sacramento County
Julia Brownley (D) — Central Coast, Ventura County
Salud Carbajal (D) — Santa Barbara County and San Luis Obispo County
Tony Cárdenas (D) — Los Angeles, San Fernando Valley
Judy Chu (D) — San Gabriel Foothills
Gil Cisneros (D) — Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino counties
Lou Correa (D) — Orange County
Jim Costa (D) — Fresno, Madera, Merced counties
TJ Cox (D) — Fresno, Kern, Kings, Tulare counties
Susan A. Davis (D) — San Diego County
Mark DeSaulnier (D) — Contra Costa County
Anna Eshoo (D) — Bay Area/Peninsula
John Garamendi (D) — Colusa, Sutter, Yuba counties
Jimmy Gomez (D) — Los Angeles
Josh Harder (D) — Stanislaus, San Joaquin counties
Katie Hill (D) — Los Angeles, Ventura counties
Jared Huffman (D) — Northern coast
Ro Khanna (D) — Bay Area
Barbara Lee (D) — Alameda County
Mike Levin (D) — San Diego County
Ted Lieu (D) — West Los Angeles County
Zoe Lofgren (D) — Santa Clara County
Alan Lowenthal (D) — Long Beach
Doris Matsui (D) — Sacramento
Jerry McNerney (D) — Contra Costa, Sacramento, San Joaquin counties
Grace Napolitano (D) — Los Angeles County
Jimmy Panetta (D) — Central Coast
Nancy Pelosi (D) — San Francisco
Scott Peters (D) — San Diego
Katie Porter (D) — Orange County
Harley Rouda (D) — Orange County
Lucille Roybal-Allard (D) — Los Angeles
Raul Ruiz (D) — Riverside County
Linda Sánchez (D) — Los Angeles, Orange counties
Adam Schiff (D) — Los Angeles County
Brad Sherman (D) — San Fernando Valley
Jackie Speier (D) — San Mateo County
Eric Swalwell (D) — Alameda County
Mike Thompson (D) — Napa County
Norma Torres (D) — Inland Empire
Juan Vargas (D) — San Diego County
Maxine Waters (D) — Los Angeles County

NO:

Ken Calvert (R) — Riverside County
Paul Cook (R) — Inyo, Mono, San Bernardino counties
Duncan Hunter (R) — San Diego, Riverside counties
Doug LaMalfa (R) — Northern California
Kevin McCarthy (R) — Kern, Tulare, Los Angeles counties
Tom McClintock (R) — Sierra
Devin Nunes (R) — Fresno, Tulare counties

The House will move ahead with impeachment proceedings against Trump after a government whistleblower’s claims the president used the power of his office to solicit a foreign government to influence the 2020 U.S. election. Much of the testimony and documents released after the claim have supported the whistleblower’s account.

The impeachment effort has focused on three panels — Foreign Affairs, Intelligence, and Oversight and Reform. In closed-door hearings that included Republicans on the committees, investigations have centered on how Trump urged Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden, now running for president, while withholding nearly $400 million in military aid.

An investigation by the Judiciary Committee has focused on possible obstruction of justice by the president, based on episodes described in special counsel Robert Mueller's report on Russian interference in the 2016 election.

Provisions in the resolution allow Democratic U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff of California, the Intelligence committee’s chairman, and Rep. Devin Nunes of California, the panel's top Republican, to each question witnesses for up to 90 minutes or delegate their time to staffers before rank-and-file lawmakers each ask questions for five minutes.

Republicans on the Intelligence and Judiciary committees could subpoena witnesses and documents, subject to the chairman’s approval, and Republicans could ask for a committee vote.

The vote came as Tim Morrison, Trump's former top adviser for Russian and European affairs, arrived on Capitol Hill to testify before the House. Morrison, who left his job Wednesday, served on the National Security Council and is the first White House political appointee to testify.

His testimony was scheduled behind closed doors, but he could provide information that is central to the push to remove Trump from office. Specifically, he will be asked to explain the "sinking feeling" he said he got when Trump demanded Ukraine's president investigate former Biden and his son over business dealings in Ukraine.

The resolution approved Thursday directs the House Intelligence Committee to hold the public hearings and write a report that will be handed off to the House Judiciary Committee, which would then draft articles of impeachment.

If the House moves forward, the Republican-controlled Senate would decide whether to remove Trump from office.