The House voted 211 to 204 closely along partisan lines to halt an impeachment effort against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Nov. 10, shielding the secretary for now from a push to remove him from office.
Only one Republican, Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Kentucky, who introduced the articles of impeachment against Hegseth, joined 203 Democrats in voting to proceed with impeachment.
Instead, the vote sent the measure to the House Judiciary Committee, effectively killing it, USA TODAY reported.
Eleven Democrats and seven Republicans were recorded as “not voting” in the proceeding. Several of the absent Democrats said they were delayed because of unexpected traffic coming from a Washington event.
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eight of the 18 representatives who did not vote on the measure will return to Congress in 2027. They include seven Democrats and one Republican.
Massie filed eight articles of impeachment against Hegseth on Nov. 9. Four of them were related to the Iran war.
A fifth focused on military strikes in the Caribbean and the Pacific and the sixth dealt with retaliation against Sen. Mark Kelly after Kelly said service members could refuse illegal orders.
The seventh targeted the seizure of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores without congressional authorization. The eighth dealt with the war in Yemen, which was not authorized by Congress.
Search how every House member voted on the motion to quash the Pete Hegseth impeachment effort
Contributing: Miles J. Herszenhorn, Zachary Schermele, Michael Loria
Source: USA TODAY Network reporting and research; Reuters; House of Representatives
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