House Majority Leader Says Impeachment Article Will Be Sent Over To The Senate "Within A Very Short

House Majority Leader says impeachment article will be sent over to the Senate "within a very short time"

From CNN's Manu Raju

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer told reporters late last night that the article won’t be held back by the House and the "presumption is within a very short time" it will be transmitted to the Senate.

His office has not commented on Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer’s proposal to bring the chamber back early, but the expectation is that the trial won’t begin before Trump leaves office.

Here's why Democrats want to impeach President Trump after last week's deadly Capitol attack

Today's vote underscores Democrats' fury toward Trump and his supporters after months of false rhetoric about the election being stolen whipped the President's most ardent followers into a deadly mob last Wednesday that ransacked the Capitol, forced lawmakers to evacuate both the House and Senate – and could have been worse.

The single impeachment article points to Trump's repeated false claims that he won the election and his speech to the crowd on Jan. 6 before the rioters breached the Capitol.

In all this, President Trump gravely endangered the security of the United States and its institutions of Government — the resolution

"He threatened the integrity of the democratic system, interfered with the peaceful transition of power, and imperiled a coequal branch of Government.