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Originally Posted by tranza
How many people are needed to pass this bill?
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Steps Toward Impeachment
These steps are distilled from a variety of sources listed here.
1 Impeachment starts informally with the the people. Please make your opinions known.
2 A member of the House of Representatives refers charges to the House Judiciary Committee. OR, using a little known precedent, a State Legislature can pass a Resolution of Impeachment and transmit that to the US House through their Representative.
3 The House Judiciary Committee considers the charges and adopts a resolution to conduct an inquiry.
4 House of Representatives passes the resolution by a majority vote.
5 The House Judiciary Committee conducts the inquiry or investigation into the crimes.
6 The House Judiciary Committee approves articles of impeachment by a majority.
7 The House of Representative debates each article and passes at least one with a majority vote. Bush is now officially "impeached".
8 The Senate conducts a trial and convicts with a 2/3 majority vote.
9 The President, and hopefully also his VP and others, are removed from office.