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The GOP-led House voted on Wednesday to formally authorize the corruption-focused impeachment inquiry against President Joe Biden, a move Republicans said was necessary to give them more legal weight to enforce subpoenas.

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    The GOP-led House voted on Wednesday to formally authorize the corruption-focused impeachment inquiry against President Joe Biden, a move Republicans said was necessary to give them more legal weight to enforce subpoenas.

    By a 221-212 tally, the chamber adopted the authorization resolution that establishes "sufficient grounds" exist for the probe to continue after it passed through the House Rules Committee on Tuesday. With the successful vote, the inquiry follows a similar track as the first impeachment probe against former President Donald Trump, which Democrats did not vote to authorize right away either.

    All Republicans rallied behind the resolution, including Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO), who told CNN on Monday that he was "struggling" with how he would vote. Buck said he believed there was a lack of evidence against Biden but also lamented how the White House had resisted the inquiry. The one member who did not vote was Rep. Brad Schneider (D-IL). The Democrat is a critic of the impeachment effort, but said he was unable to cast a vote against it because of a death in his family.

    Three panels - the Oversight, Judiciary, and Ways and Means Committees - have led the impeachment probe since mid-September, when then-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) announced the endeavor. Congressional investigators have been looking into whether the business practices of Biden's family members fostered corruption in government - spurred by a money trail showing millions of dollars from foreign countries - as well as the Department of Justice's handling of a criminal probe into Hunter Biden, the president's son.

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    President Biden, who is seeking re-election next year, has dismissed what he called last week a "bunch of lies." But GOP lawmakers contend that the commander in chief has lied more than a dozen times in his denials about his knowledge and participation in his family's dealings. Democrats in the House have insisted the impeachment inquiry is a "sham" lacking legitimacy and evidence of wrongdoing by the president.

    Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), less than two months into his tenure in the leadership position, said a vote to formalize the impeachment inquiry was necessary to combat alleged "stonewalling" by the White House. "When the subpoenas are challenged in court, we'll be at the apex of our constitutional authority," he said last week. Johnson has also said the House has a responsibility to "follow each truth where it leads" when asked if investigators have found any evidence that Biden is guilty of impeachable offenses.

    Richard Sauber, special counsel to the president, wrote to impeachment leaders in mid-November condemning what he described as "Congressional harassment of the President" and calling on the House to withdraw its subpoenas and interview requests that have gone out to Biden administration officials, Biden family members, and Biden associates. The "Constitution requires that the full House authorize an impeachment inquiry before a committee may utilize compulsory process pursuant to the impeachment power - a step the Republican House Majority has so far refused to take," Sauber wrote.

    One high-profile individual who has resisted a subpoena is Hunter Biden. He showed up to Capitol Hill earlier on Wednesday but refused to show up for his scheduled deposition, demanding instead that lawmakers allow him to appear for a public hearing. House Republicans highlighted Hunter Biden denying that his father "financially" benefited from his business dealings as evidence that the Biden family's story keeps changing under scrutiny.

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    Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY) and Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) released a joint statement afterward, saying they would initiate contempt of Congress proceedings against Hunter Biden. The vote to formalize the impeachment inquiry serves to "strengthen our legal case in the courts as we face obstruction from the White House and witnesses," they said. "Today's obstruction by Hunter Biden reinforces the need for a formal vote. President Biden and his family must be held accountable for their corruption and obstruction. And we will provide that to the American people."

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Considering what real news is available for all to witness, and in great specificity, should one pursue what is true outside of the channeled realm of the corrupt corporate /legacy media, and: Is Institutionalized Corruption real, and is it a hindrance to sustaining our Constitutional Republic now, and for future generations of American citizens?
  Yes
  No
  Not sure
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Now that the public is allowed to know the truth regarding the Hunter Biden Laptop Scandal, after more that 2 1/2 years of deception by the corrupt Corporate Media Kabal, propropagandidats all, and the discredited Deep State, we have NOW learned that the infamous laptop is far less about the Biden Boy's fetish for pornography, narcotics and Russian whores, and far more about Hunter's pivotal role in the Biden Crime Syndicate's selling of deep access to our foreign adversaries, and to what extent it has compromised our national security: What is your opinion about this possible coordinated Treason?
  It is imperative that we know the truth of what may be the greatest scandal in our Republic's history, and all aforementioned parties prosecuted for their crimes against the People.
  Currently, our Two Tiered Justice System is constructed to protect all Democratic Socialists, their corrupt "Journalist" spokes-sheople, and their Deep State enablers ... so why bother.
  It is Donald Trump's fault.
  How can we be assured that the "Laptop" is real? Would NOT our standard journalists have investigated this issue thoroughly nearly 3 years ago if it was real?
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After nearly 8 months of the United States House of Representatives' Oversight Committee hearings, House Speaker Mike Johnson is pursuing an Impeachment Inquiry into the strong allegations of Bribery, Influence Peddling, Money laundering and possible Treason regarding the Biden Family Shell Corporations' business dealings with foreign nations that are adversarial to our survival: Is it prudent and wise for the Republican controlled U.S. House to investigate this Democratic Socialist President?
  No, Democratics should never be investigated because they are so superior to their Republican counterparts, and care so much more.
  Yes, in a Constitutional Republic, bound by the Rule of Law, no one is above the law, and that law must be applied evenly.
  Not sure ... Now, what got all this started?
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