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The House votes Thursday on formal terms of the impeachment inquiry. Plus, check out who's scheduled to be deposed this week.

Welcome to week six of the impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump, OnPolitics readers. This week, the big news is centered on a vote.

On Thursday, the House is expected to vote to formalize impeachment inquiry procedures. This comes after weeks of House Democrats resisting a full House vote, saying it's not procedurally needed, but then coming under attack by Republicans who say the inquiry is not legit because it's not been voted on.

About that Thursday vote

The resolution that's being voted on will lay out the next steps in the inquiry, including:

•	Establishing procedures for public hearings (You may remember last week, when more than two dozen Republicans stormed a closed-door inquiry deposition.)...
•	Transferring the investigation to the Judiciary Committee for potential articles of impeachment...
•	And outlining the rights of Trump and his attorneys.

This will also mark the first time House members will be forced to go on record on their support or disapproval of the inquiry, putting several moderate Democrats and Republicans under scrutiny as the 2020 election approaches.

Oh, the politics of it all!

The responses are, well, expectedly partisan:

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"As committees continue to gather evidence and prepare to present their findings, I will be introducing a resolution, which the Rules Committee will mark up this week, to ensure transparency and provide a clear path forward," said Rule Committee Chairman Jim McGovern, D-Mass. "This is the right thing to do for the institution and the American people."

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"We won't be able to comment fully until we see the actual text, but Speaker Pelosi is finally admitting what the rest of America already knew - that Democrats were conducting an unauthorized impeachment proceeding, refusing to give the President due process, and their secret, shady, closed door depositions are completely and irreversibly illegitimate," said Stephanie Grisham, a White House spokeswoman.

Will they show up for their depositions?

We've been together long enough to know the Monday deal: We get an impeachment inquiry interview schedule, predict what may be said, then nothing goes to plan. So, real quick, here's what's on deck:

•	Today: Charles Kupperman, the former deputy national security adviser who left the White House in September, defied a congressional subpoena and did not appear for his deposition.
•	Tuesday: Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the National Security Council director for European affairs, is scheduled.
•	Wednesday: Kathryn Wheelbarger, the acting assistant secretary of Defense for international security affairs, is scheduled.
•	Thursday: Timothy Morrison, the NSC senior director for Europe and Russia, is slated. He was mentioned repeatedly in earlier testimony of security and diplomatic officials about Trump withholding nearly $400 million that Congress had approved, under the condition that Ukraine announce an investigation of former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter.