New York Rep. Claudia Tenney on Sunday pressed her Republican colleagues who are wary of supporting an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden to change their tune.
Despite a desire by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and the majority of House Republicans to officially start the impeachment process over an alleged bribery scheme based on his family’s overseas business dealings, the GOP conference lacks the votes because of holdouts in their slim majority who are mostly in competitive districts.
“We need to go into impeachment right now. I know that people are reluctant and some people are in so-called swing districts,” Ms. Tenney said on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo.” “But look: we voted for H.R. 1, which is critically important having to deal with energy. If we can’t vote for impeachment of a guy who’s blatantly corrupt — we have the evidence out there.”
Congressional Republicans in favor of an impeachment inquiry say family bank records and informants paint a picture of then-Vice President Biden as complicit in an influence-peddling scheme related to foreign business interests tied to his son, Hunter Biden.
Republicans have yet to uncover any direct monetary links to Mr. Biden or evidence he was swayed by foreign actors on any specific policies, prompting many GOP lawmakers to say the evidence warrants an inquiry in order to reveal further information.
“You have all this information, it’s not like it’s not there,” Ms. Tenney said. “It’s there, but the Biden administration, under [Attorney General] Merrick Garland, is doing everything it can to slow walk and hide it.”
She went on to say that Congress will be forced to multitask when it returns from the August recess this month between passing a budget to avoid a government shutdown and a potential impeachment inquiry.
“We have to do it all,” Ms. Tenney said. “These are tough times and they call for tough measures. We have to be involved in all of it.”
