Congrats.

For the first time in US history, the House of Representatives voted to impeach the president for a second time on Wednesday after an emotional debate in the very chamber where some of the same lawmakers just one week ago were crouching under chairs and wearing gas masks.

As rioters rampaged through the capital on the House floor, each party argued over the merits of impeaching President Donald Trump.

With only days left in his one term in office, Democrats, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, made clear that the president needed to be held responsible for his role in the deadly assault on democracy.

No matter the timing, we know that the president of the United States incited this insurrection, this armed rebellion against our common country.

He must go.

He is a clear and present danger to the nation that we all love.

But House Republicans largely stuck by Trump, including the Chambers top Republican Kevin McCarthy, who argued that impeachment would work against uniting the country.

Ah, vote to impeach would further divide this nation.

Some of the president's most reliable allies including Florida Republican Matt Gates, accused Democrats of inciting violence, saying they played a role in black lives matter protests last summer.

Some have cited the metaphor that the president lit the flame.

Will they let actual flames actual fires?

Maxine Waters accused Trump of wanting civil war, the worst president in the history of the United States.

And Democrat Hakeem Jeffries, an impeachment manager from Trump's first Senate trial, said the second move to impeach him was predictable.

Donald Trump is a living, breathing, impeachable offense.

In the end, House Democrats were joined by 10 Republican members to pass a single article of impeachment.

I will vote yes, a formal charge accusing Trump of incitement of insurrection after urging thousands of his supporters to march on the capital and fight and following months of denying the election result and trying to overturn it.

Wednesday's House session was conducted under extraordinary security inside and outside the capital, including armed National Guard personnel who slept on the marble floors of Congress ahead of the vote.

In the Senate, Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell rejected Democratic calls for an immediate impeachment trial, saying there was no time to conclude it before Trump leaves office.

McConnell, who The New York Times reported to be pleased that Democrats moved ahead with impeachment, said he had not made a final decision on how he will vote at Trump's trial.