The Democrat-controlled House of Representatives voted on partisan lines Wednesday to impeach President Donald Trump.

After nearly 12 hours of debate on the House fl oor Wednesday, Democrats voted to approve articles of impeachment against President Trump. The vote on the Article I, abuse of power, came down 230-197-1 (present). The second vote on Article II, obstruction of Congress, 229-198-1.

Two Democrats, Jeff Van Drew (NJ) and Collin Peterson (MN), joined Republicans in voting against impeachment on Article I. Van Drew, Peterson and Jared Golden (ME) voted against Article II. Democrat Tulsi Gabbard (HI) voted present on both. Drew plans to change his party affi liation to Republican, citing unfair impeachment as the reason why.

The Oklahoma House delegation voted 4-1 against impeachment, District 3 Congressman Frank Lucas of Cheyenne voting no along with fellow Republicans Tom Cole, Kevin Hern, and Markwayne Mullin, all of whom were critical of the action as unwarranted and unfair.

Democrat Kendra Horn of Oklahoma City defended her vote in favor of impeachment, saying the president’s call to the Ukraine president was “inviting interferenCE in American elections.”

Sen. Jim Inhofe and Sen. James Lankford criticized the action, Inhofe stating the Senate will not vote to convict and Lankford commenting the House impeached the president over saying he meant to do something he didn’t do.

Inhofe made this statement:

“The President is not going to be removed from office – period. The House’s action is nothing more than a political sham – one that the vast majority of Oklahomans and I are sick and tired of.” Inhofe said. “Nothing speaks to the political motivation of this action more than Speaker Pelosi’s recent admission that she and House Democrats have been working to impeach the President for two and a half years. The liberal national media has been complicit. As the President reminded us in his letter to the Speaker yesterday, the Washington Post fi rst reported about liberal efforts to impeach the President only nineteen minutes after he was inaugurated, and it has been a steady drumbeat since. If House Democrats spent half as much time and money actually getting work done for the American people, they might have something to show for their time in the majority. But they do not.

“Thankfully, we have a president and Senate Republicans who continue to move the ball forward on things that truly matter in the long run: confi rming 175 constitutional judges in lifetime appointments; creating over 7 million jobs with a booming economy; rebuilding our military...and we’re just getting started.”