LAS VEGAS (AP) - The Latest on Nevada’s congressional delegation and the call for impeachment proceedings (all times local):
1:35 p.m.
Nevada’s lone Republican in Washington says he does not support the start of an impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump and is criticizing his Democratic counterparts for calling for such a move because of the president’s actions toward Ukraine.
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Hours after Democrats Susie Lee and Steven Horsford said they’d support starting impeachment if Trump’s administration continues to block the release of a whistleblower complaint, U.S. Rep. Mark Amodei said the Democrats were making the president’s actions “an issue” before the House Intelligence Committee or any other committee met to discuss it.
Amodei said he would wait to respond to Trump’s actions until some kind of investigation has taken place in Congress.
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10:15 a.m.
Two Nevada Democrats in Congress say they support starting impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump if his administration continues to block the release of a whistleblower complaint about the president’s actions toward Ukraine.
U.S. Reps. Susie Lee and Steven Horsford said in a statement Tuesday morning that it was “dire” and a “direct abuse of power” for Trump to withhold $400 million in aid to Ukraine a few days before he pressured that nation’s leader to investigate political rival Joe Biden and his son.
There is no evidence that either Biden did anything wrong.
Lee and Horsford say the president’s actions threaten national security and are “an escalation that requires explicit action by Congress.”
Nevada’s other Democratic member of Congress, U.S. Rep. Dina Titus, called for an impeachment inquiry in July.
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