The House of Representatives will vote on sending articles of impeachment to the US Senate on Wednesday, setting the stage for the historic impeachment trial against President Donald Trump to begin next week.
After withholding the articles for nearly a month in a bid to influence the rules of the trial, Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic speaker of the House, said on Tuesday that the House would “proceed with a vote on transmitting the articles of impeachment and naming impeachment managers” on Wednesday.
Impeachment managers are members of Congress who will effectively act as prosecutors during the Senate trial. Adam Schiff, the Democratic congressman from California who chairs the House intelligence committee, and Jerrold Nadler, a Democrat from New York, are expected to be among the managers for Mr Trump’s trial.