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    Impeachment Timeline: From Early Calls To A Full House Vote

    As the House prepares to debate two articles of impeachment against President Trump on Wednesday, a look back at how Congress got here.
    by Brian Naylor Dec 17, 2019 4 minutes
    House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler speaks to the media after the committee voted on the two articles of impeachment against President Trump on Dec. 13.

    The House is expected to vote Wednesday on two articles of impeachment against President Trump. A handful of congressional Democrats have been calling for Trump to be impeached even before they won control of the House in the 2018 election. But the majority of the caucus didn't back Trump's removal until this fall. Here's a look at how we got here:

    Earliest calls

    Two Democratic congressmen filed the first article of impeachment against Trump back in July 2017. Reps. Brad Sherman of California and Al Green of Texas filed an article charging Trump, two months after the president fired then-FBI director James Comey. But with the House then controlled by Republicans, the effort was largely ignored.

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