{"id":1006429,"date":"2019-09-24T22:35:43","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T22:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1006429"},"modified":"2019-09-25T11:37:01","modified_gmt":"2019-09-25T11:37:01","slug":"dnc-on-announcement-of-impeachment-inquiry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-on-announcement-of-impeachment-inquiry\/","title":{"rendered":"DNC on Announcement of Impeachment Inquiry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><em>In response to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announcing the House will move forward with an official impeachment inquiry, DNC Chair Tom Perez released the following statement:<\/em><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI stand with Speaker Pelosi and House Democrats as they move forward with this impeachment inquiry.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cBased on the president\u2019s own admission, he has committed a gross abuse of power. Congress has an obligation to thoroughly investigate this matter and other wrongdoing; anything less would be an abdication of its constitutional responsibility to serve as a check on the executive branch.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cDonald Trump has made countless promises to the American people, but he\u2019s proven that he\u2019s only capable of serving himself &#8212; and that there is no line he won&#8217;t cross to do so. Americans are tired of it, and they deserve better.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cDemocrats are fighting day in and day out to expand access to health care, raise wages, help the American worker, and uphold the rule of law. That is our promise to America \u2013 and unlike this president, we keep our promises.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announcing the House will move forward with an official impeachment inquiry, DNC Chair Tom Perez released the following statement: \u201cI stand with Speaker Pelosi and House Democrats as they move forward with this impeachment inquiry. \u201cBased on the president\u2019s own admission, he has committed a gross abuse of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1006429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - 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