The House impeachment inquiry of President Joe Biden began Thursday with a big moment and an early vote before even hearing from four impeachment inquiry witnesses.
In his opening statement, House Oversight Ranking Member Jamie Raskin, D-Md., called for subpoenas of former Donald Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani and Lev Parnas, but that motion was quickly tabled in a 20-19 vote along party lines.
Before calling for the roll-call vote on the motion to table Raskin's call for subpoenas, Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., questioned Raskin's characterization of Giuliani and Parnas as "key figures.
Parnas was an associate of Rudy Giuliani who was a figure in former President Donald Trump's first impeachment investigation. He was sentenced to a year and eight months in prison for fraud and campaign finance crimes by a judge who said fraud had become "a way of life" for Parnas. Instead, it zeroed in on donations Parnas had illegally made to a number of U.S. politicians using the riches of a wealthy Russian to jump-start a legal recreational-marijuana business.
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