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Dec 18, 2019: Democrats Have Votes to Impeach
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TODAY'S HEADLINES:

A majority of Congressional lawmakers now say they plan to impeachment Donald Trump in a full House vote, which is expected later today.

Meanwhile, Pete Buttigieg is caught omitting more than 20 high-level fundraisers from his presidential campaign’s latest attempt at transparency.

And lastly, Trump’s Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao is under scrutiny for a $67 million grant she handed to the home state of her husband, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

QUICKIES HEADLINES:

The leaders of the Congressional Progressive Caucus condemned the $1.4 trillion spending package that passed Tuesday, calling the legislation a massive giveaway to the Pentagon and a green light for Donald Trump's "immoral mass detention policies."

The U.S. Air Force is moving to discharge a sergeant who was revealed as a local leader of a white nationalist group more than eight months ago, The Denver Post reports.

And lastly, the New York Times reports the number of teens vaping marijuana has nearly doubled in the past year—but they’re increasingly turning their backs on booze and hard drugs.

Only 52% of high-school seniors said they had used alcohol in the last year — a big decline from the figures in the year 2000, when 73 percent of 12th graders said they’d had a drink.