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Eleven absent Democrats shape the Hegseth impeachment vote, CNN reports

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Chrissy Houlahan tell Anderson Cooper their colleagues had a job to do, as attendance becomes the story of a seven-vote result.

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11 House Dems missed the Hegseth impeach vote

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0:00The House adopts the motion 211 to 204, ending Massie's impeachment push against Hegseth.
0:17Anderson Cooper explains that 11 Democrats and 7 Republicans did not vote.
0:42Manu Raju reports Democratic frustration over the absences and the Republican procedural move.
1:46Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says members were sent to Washington to do a job.
2:30Raju says Massie calls this push done, but similar resolutions could return next Congress.
4:16Chrissy Houlahan joins live, calling the absences a failure of duty and naming affordability as the priority.

The tally takes a few seconds to read from the dais: 211 to 204, motion adopted. That vote ended Republican Thomas Massie's effort to impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. CNN's report, posted today, points to who was not in the room.

According to the channel, 11 House Democrats and 7 House Republicans did not vote, and those absences gave GOP leaders the numbers they needed. An on-screen graphic names all 18, from Nancy Pelosi among the Democrats to Derrick Van Orden among the Republicans.

Anderson Cooper sets out the result before Manu Raju reports from Capitol Hill on Democratic frustration over the missed votes. Raju also says Massie has called his current push "done," while noting that privileged impeachment resolutions could return in the next Congress. CNN's description says Hakeem Jeffries is set to become speaker then. Jeffries told reporters that "this is not the end."

Ocasio-Cortez gives the segment its shortest summary: "The people sent us here to do a job." Houlahan, a Pennsylvania Democrat and former Air Force officer, is in an archival floor speech calling Hegseth unqualified, then joins Cooper live. She calls it "a failure of of duty to not show up for the vote," and says any future accountability effort "needs to be with a plan." Affordability, she adds, remains the party's first priority.

The report had drawn about 1.6 million views in roughly 12 hours, and its comments have already passed a typical CNN video's entire first day. Most of them are about attendance: why elected members missed a vote of this weight.

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