The House has voted along party lines to formalize the impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden. What do you think will come of this decision?

From Fox News. The House voted to formalize its impeachment inquiry into President Biden on Wednesday, taking a critical step that GOP leaders have argued is necessary to force the White House into complying with their investigation.

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The measure passed 221 to 212, with every Republican voting in favor of it and all present Democrats voting against. Light cheering could be heard on the GOP side of the chamber after the measure passed, with pin drop silence on the Democratic side.

“We are now at a pivotal moment in our investigation. We will soon depose and interview several members of the Biden family and their associates about these influence-peddling schemes. But we are facing obstruction from the White House,” Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., said on the House floor ahead of the vote. …

The GOP-led committees on Oversight, Ways & Means and the Judiciary have been investigating Biden over accusations he had leveraged his office of vice president in the Obama administration to enrich his family through foreign businesses.

It’s been heavily centered on one of the president’s brothers, James Biden, and his son, Hunter Biden — who is under federal investigation for tax and firearm-related charges. …

The second article we’ve included was written by Speaker Mike Johnson and published on Tuesday. Read it to see how he views this impeachment inquiry.

From USA Today. As a constitutional lawyer and former member of the House Judiciary Committee, I have encouraged my colleagues to carefully consider the gravity of impeachment proceedings and the facts surrounding the current investigation into President Joe Biden’s conduct.

This week, the House will vote to take the next critical step by formalizing our impeachment inquiry into President Biden. The Oversight, Judiciary and Ways and Means committees will continue investigating the role of the president in promoting the alleged influence-peddling schemes of his family and associates, the orchestration of which reaped millions of dollars in payments from America’s foreign adversaries.

The committees also will further investigate statements made by the president concerning his knowledge and involvement in those schemes and the role his administration might have played in covering up alleged wrongdoing. …