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Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-CA) blasted 11 of her Democratic colleagues who missed Tuesday’s vote on impeaching Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, calling their absence “shameful” after House Republicans successfully blocked the effort.

The House voted 211-204 to send eight articles of impeachment introduced by Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) to the Judiciary Committee, effectively killing the push to remove Hegseth. Massie was the lone Republican to oppose the procedural maneuver.

Speaking to MeidasTouch’s Pablo Manríquez afterward, Kamlager-Dove unloaded on Hegseth, whom she dubbed “Pathetic Pete.”

Kamlager-Dove on Hegseth Impeachment: We knew that this vote was coming, so people should have gotten their raggedy selves up these steps to vote. There is no reason why we should have lost this vote because of attendance issues.

You know this man should not be in this position.… pic.twitter.com/skDu5ZJ1mk

— Acyn (@Acyn) November 10, 2026

“Pathetic Pete should have been impeached a long time ago. This is a dude who is wholly unqualified,” she said.

“We knew that this vote was coming, so people should have gotten their raggedy selves up these steps to vote,” Kamlager-Dove added. “There is no reason why we should have lost this vote because of attendance issues. This is what the people have been talking about. You know this man should not be in this position.”

“So shame on folks who are not here,” she continued. “Because these people lost. They lost, and they still found a way to show up to table this bill. Shameful.”

Republican leaders had feared they might not have enough support to derail the impeachment effort, but the absence of Reps. Julia Brownley (D-CA), Lou Correa (D-CA), Laura Gillen (D-NY), Steven Horsford (D-NV), Jonathan Jackson (D-IL), Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Brittany Pettersen (D-CO), Melanie Stansbury (D-NM), Haley Stevens (D-MI), Marilyn Strickland (D-WA), and Frederica Wilson (D-FL) helped secure its defeat.

Several subsequently attempted to explain that they had been prevented from reaching the chamber in time.

Stansbury said a traffic incident and a police-escorted bus delayed her arrival, adding that she immediately registered her opposition in the Congressional Record.

Tonight, House Republicans used a procedural motion to kill the impeachment of Pete Hegseth, by referring it to the Judiciary Committee.

Like other Members of Congress, Rep. Stansbury was blocked from entering the Capitol to vote due a traffic incident and a police escort of a…

— Rep. Melanie Stansbury (@Rep_Stansbury) November 11, 2026

Pettersen, who said she had helped introduce impeachment articles against Hegseth in April, accused House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) of shielding the Pentagon chief from accountability.

I helped introduce articles of impeachment to remove the deeply unqualified and dangerous Pete Hegseth since April. Tonight I was denied the ability to vote on this motion while Mike Johnson worked overtime to shield him from accountability.

Next year House Democrats will…

— U.S. Rep. Brittany Pettersen (@RepPettersen) November 11, 2026

Jackson similarly blamed the traffic disruption and said he had entered his opposition into the Congressional Record, reiterating that Hegseth “must be held accountable and impeached.”

Tonight, House Republicans voted to send the articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to the Judiciary Committee, a move designed to stall accountability without a direct vote on the merits.

While en route to the floor to oppose that motion, a traffic…

— Rep. Jonathan L. Jackson (@rep_jackson) November 11, 2026

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