What does the house do to begin a impeachment procces?

Answer 1

It is important to understand that impeachment is certainly not synonymous with removal fromoffice, although laypersons have erroneously asserted it to be.

In the case of a Presidential impeachment, the United States House of Representatives is called into special session. The House of Representatives debates and enacts Articles of Impeachment. Upon certification by the Clerk of the House of Representatives, these are transmitted to the Senate.

The United States Senate is also convened in special session. In this capacity, it is presided over specially by the Chief Justice of the United States, and not the President of the Senate nor the President pro tempore of the Senate.

The Senate then tries the President on the Articles brought to it by the House of Representatives. If the Senate convicts on all Articles, at that moment, the individual formerly holding the office is no longer President, and due to this incapacity, succession proceeds according to the provisions set forth in the U.S. Constitution and the Presidential Succession Act.

If deemed of constitutional capacity to discharge the duties of the office, the former Vice President of the United States is then sworn in by the Chief Justice of the United States to be acting President, during the remainder of what would otherwise have been the ousted individual's Presidential term.