What are the roles of the House of Representatives, and the Senate, respectively, in impeachment proceedings?

What are the roles of the House of Representatives, and the Senate, respectively, in impeachment proceedings?|||The House brings up the Charges and impeaches. It takes a simple majority vote of the House to impeach the federal official and send it over to the US Senate for trial. The House then picks "House Managers" to represent the House and bring its case to the US Senate for trial. The impeached official has the right to choose his/her own representatives to the US Senate to give his/her side.





The US Senate holds the trial. They review the evidence, question witnesses, question the House Managers, question the impeached official representatives. If the impeached official is the US President then the person conducting the trial is the Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court. On other federal officials it is the President Pro Tempore of the Senate. When a senator has a question, they can't simply blurt it out or raise their hand. They write down the question, who the question is for and then send it up to the Person Presiding over the trial who asks the question and allows the recipient to answer the question.





The Senate votes in private outside of the view of the House Managers and the accused representatives. Once convicted, the person is out of office immediately. Sometimes the Senate can bar the official from holding future office, sometimes they don't. A Federal Judge was impeached by the House and convicted in the Senate of receiving a $150,000 bribe from a defendant in order for that defendant to receive a light sentence and a return of all seized assets. After conviction by the US Senate, that judge turned around and was elected to the US House.





It takes a 2/3 majority vote to convict. If there is no 2/3 then that federal official is acquitted and goes back to work. Even if there was a majority of votes to convict.|||michael and phil are correct. it is interesting that clinton was impeached even though the top senator


shelby of alabama tried to stop the house from impeaching clinton. but he was able to stop the trial in the senate. ever wonder why a republican would stop a democrat from being impeached? oh, that's right, shelby was a democrat.|||Only the House of Representatives can impeach (accuse). The trial happens in the Senate, and each senator is a juror. It takes 2/3's vote to convict in the Senate.