House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she will send Trump articles of impeachment to Senate next week

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• House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday said she will send the two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump to the Senate next week.
• The move comes after weeks of delay as Democrats and Republicans in the upper chamber duked it out over the terms of Trump's impeachment trial.
• Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said this week that he would move forward with a trial without committing to call witnesses, as Democrats had demanded. Pressure then mounted on Pelosi to send the articles of impeachment to the Senate after several Democrats indicated they wanted to start the trial.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Friday that she will transmit the two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump to the Senate next week.

The move comes following weeks of delay as Democrats and Republicans in the upper chamber duked it out over the terms of Trump's impeachment trial after the House voted to impeach the president for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.

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