Nancy Pelosi’s efforts to tamp down talk of impeachment, expressed in private and in public, so far haven’t appeased the caucus’ centrist wing
A day before the House Judiciary Committee took its biggest step yet toward impeachment last week, moderate Democratic Rep. Anthony Brindisi voiced his frustrations directly to Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or alerts from POLITICO. You can unsubscribe at any time. “I’m doing what I think is the right thing to do,” Rose said in an interview, adding that no single incident propelled him to write the op-ed. “I want to see this party — and I know it has it in it — get to work passing substantive infrastructure and health care bills by the end of the year.
Many Democratic moderates say they recognize that Pelosi and her deputies have tried to contain the impeachment furor from becoming all-consuming on Capitol Hill. For instance, the same week that the Judiciary Committee voted to advance the House investigations into Trump, the panel also approvedHouse Majority Leader Steny Hoyer. | Win McNamee/Getty Imagessome moderates in the caucus who worry that the House investigations would drown out their work on“The fear is that you will be exclusively focused on it, to the exclusion of all the other things we need to do in the Congress of the United States,” Hoyer told reporters last week.
“I certainly think that the election security elements of the Mueller report have not been given a due amount of coverage and awareness that’s necessary,” Murphy told reporters Thursday, when asked about the event coinciding with the Judiciary vote.
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