During today’s House Committee on Oversight and Accountability’s impeachment inquiry of President Biden hearing, Rep. Jamie Raskin inaccurately argued that the full House needed to vote on whether to open an impeachment inquiry into the President. Raskin

“There is no formal constitutional or statutory or even the House rule for how an impeachment inquiry is to begin, and so it means different things to different people,” - Rep. Jamie Raskin in 2019. 

MAKE NO MISTAKE: The Constitution includes no requirement that the full House vote to start an impeachment inquiry. Neither do the Rules of the House of Representatives.