{"id":4169,"date":"2019-05-21T17:21:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T21:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/merkley-statement-on-house-impeachment-committee-2019-2\/"},"modified":"2023-07-24T11:07:44","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T15:07:44","slug":"merkley-statement-on-house-impeachment-committee-2019-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/merkley-statement-on-house-impeachment-committee-2019-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Declaraci\u00f3n de Merkley sobre el Comit\u00e9 de Acusaci\u00f3n de la C\u00e1mara"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>WASHINGTON DC -<\/b> El senador de Oreg\u00f3n, Jeff Merkley, emiti\u00f3 la siguiente declaraci\u00f3n despu\u00e9s de que la presidenta de la C\u00e1mara de Representantes, Nancy Pelosi, anunciara que la C\u00e1mara de Representantes de EE. UU. formar\u00e1 un comit\u00e9 para iniciar los procedimientos de juicio pol\u00edtico contra el presidente Trump:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIniciar un proceso de juicio pol\u00edtico no es una acci\u00f3n que deba tomarse a la ligera. Desafortunadamente, la gravedad y el alcance de las acciones corruptas del presidente Trump dejan absolutamente claro que el Congreso debe hacerlo. El presidente Trump ha violado repetida y flagrantemente su juramento y ha deshonrado la oficina de la presidencia. Mantener la ayuda exterior como reh\u00e9n hasta que un l\u00edder extranjero acceda a difamar a un oponente pol\u00edtico es corrupci\u00f3n de manual, simple y llanamente.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEs hora de que el Congreso, como una rama co-igual del gobierno, cumpla con su funci\u00f3n constitucional y responsabilice al presidente. Ahora que la C\u00e1mara est\u00e1 avanzando con los procedimientos de juicio pol\u00edtico, la insto a que se mueva r\u00e1pidamente para completar su investigaci\u00f3n y llevar estos procedimientos al pleno de la C\u00e1mara para su votaci\u00f3n\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-releases"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Merkley Statement on House Impeachment Committee - Merkley<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/merkley-statement-on-house-impeachment-committee-2019-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_MX\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Merkley Statement on House Impeachment Committee - Merkley\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"WASHINGTON, D.C. &ndash; Oregon&rsquo;s Senator Jeff Merkley released the following statement after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that the U.S. House of Representatives will be forming a committee to begin impeachment proceedings against President Trump: &ldquo;Beginning impeachment proceedings is not an action to be taken lightly. 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