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Pelosi to Democrats: 'Are you ready?'
Pelosi to Democrats: 'Are you ready?'
By Mike Lillis and Juliegrace Brufke - 12/04/19 12:26 PM EST
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) marshaled her troops at a closed-door meeting in the Capitol, asking whether they were ready to move forward with impeachment as more and more Democrats question whether a floor vote should be held before Christmas.
During the meeting in the Capitol basement Wednesday morning — where staff and cellphones were not allowed — Pelosi posed a simple question to her caucus: "Are you ready?"
She received an enthusiastic response from the Democrats in the room.
Pelosi's question to her caucus, first reported by CNN, came a day after Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee released an extensive report detailing the findings of their two-months-long investigation into Trump's handling of foreign policy in Kyiv. The report painted a damning picture of Trump leveraging U.S. military aide to Ukraine to press that country's leaders into announcing anti-corruption investigations targeting his political rivals — the episode at the center of the Democrats' impeachment inquiry.
Pelosi used Wednesday's meeting to deliver a simple marching order for the caucus: "What the Speaker said is, 'Read the report,'" said Rep. Donna Shalala (D-Fla.).
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https://thehill.com/homenews/house/472998-pelosi-to-democrats-are-you-ready
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Ready to go! 
