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CE 9/23 #9 | 1st Nine Weeks

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Trump acknowledged on Sunday that he raised corruption accusations against who?
Former Vice president Biden
Democrats wanted to impeach Mr. Trump over what allegations?
allegations he leaned on a foreign
government to help damage a political rival.
Mr. Trump pushed
the Ukrainian government to...
Investigate Biden
The influential chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, who has resisted such action, said the House might now have...
"crossed the Rubicon"
Who had been opposed to an impeachment inquiry said they were considering changing course?
Moderate freshman lawmakers
Who sharpened their criticisms of the party's leadership
for failing to act?
Progressives
What was Pelosi's warning to the White House?
Turn over the secret whistle-blower complaint by Thursday, or face a serious escalation from Congress.
Democrats, Ms. Pelosi never mentioned the word "________________," but her message hinted at that possibility.
impeachment
Pelosi is a Democrat from where?
California
Ukraine has been fighting who?
Russian Backed separatists
The allegations center on whether Mr. Trump did what to Ukraine's leader? Using what as leverage?
pressured Ukraine's newly elected leader, implicitly or explicitly, to take action to hurt Mr. Biden's election; US military
Trump administration had temporarily been withholding a $_______________ package of military funding.
$250 million
Publicly, Trump worked to focus attention not on his
own actions but on who's?
Biden's
President of Ukraine
Zelensky
Trump acknowledged that he had discussed _____________ during the call and accused the former vice president of corruption tied to who and what?
Biden; his son Hunter's business activities in former Soviet republic
Trump left for a trip to where?
Texas and Ohio
The ___________________________________________ is already investigating whether to recommend articles of impeachment against Mr. Trump over other matters
House Judiciary Committee
Ms. Pelosi has consistently questioned over what?
the
strength of the case
Proponents of impeachment have repeatedly pointed to damaging revelations including several instances of possible obstruction of justice by Mr. Trump detailed by the special counsel investigating Russia's interference in which election?
2016
Senator of South Carolina
Graham
Senator of Utah who was also Republican Presidential candidate in 2012
Romney
Interviews with more than a dozen Democratic lawmakers this weekend suggest allegations that Mr. Trump was using the power of his office to do what?
extract political gains from a foreign power
Representative of Michigan
Dingell
Dingell said that it's becoming "more and more difficult" for Democrats to avoid what?
an all-out impeachment inquiry
Several ________________________________ who had opposed impeachment
conferred privately over the weekend to discuss announcing
support for an inquiry, potentially jointly, after a hearing
scheduled for ____________________ with the acting national intelligence
director, according to Democratic officials familiar with the
conversations.
first term lawmakers; Thursday
Representative of New Jersey
Malinowski
The Intelligence Committee chairman and Representative of California
Schiff
Mr. Schiff first brought the existence of what to light over more than a week ago?
whistle-blower complaint
Democrat of New York
Ocasio-Cortez
Democrat of Washington and
the co-chairwoman of the Progressive Caucus
Jayapal
Representative of Nevada
Titus
Strikingly, some traditionally cautious veteran Democrats said the party might have no choice but to move toward _____________.
Impeachment
Senate Republicans are clinging to their majority of how many seats?
53
former Virginia governor and national party chairman
McAuliffe
Who is the longtime Democratic strategist, said he had opposed impeachment, but now thinks the House should move "quick and clean" after obtaining a transcript of Mr. Trump's phone call?
Carville
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