Blunt believes House 'ready to move' on impeachment

(AP) Republican Sen. Roy Blunt expects a ``partisan exercise" as the U.S. House considers whether to impeach President Donald Trump, but says his pivotal Senate committee is focused on ``putting the facts together."

Blunt is a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee that is gathering facts about Trump's July phone call with Ukraine's president. The call is the subject of a House impeachment inquiry into whether Trump abused his authority by seeking an investigation of former Vice President Joe Biden, a leading Democratic rival in the 2020 election.

St. Louis Public Radio reports that Blunt told reporters in St. Louis Wednesday that House Democrats ``are ready to move on the impeachment question," regardless of where the facts lead.

Missouri voters overwhelmingly supported Trump in the 2016 election.