House Votes to Send Hegseth Impeachment Articles to Committee

The U.S. House of Representatives voted 211 to 204 to refer articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to committee. NPR reported that the vote effectively ended the impeachment effort.

Articles of impeachment are the formal charges the House can bring against a federal official. The House is one of the two chambers of Congress, the national lawmaking body in Washington. Referring the articles to committee sends them to a smaller group of lawmakers instead of to a vote of the full House.

The effort was spearheaded by Rep. Thomas Massie, a Republican from Kentucky. The vote to refer the articles to committee blocked a floor vote, meaning a vote by the full House, on whether to advance them.

On Nov. 10, Hegseth took questions from reporters at a news conference at the Pentagon, the headquarters of the Defense Department.