“The impeachment inquiry is entering into a new phase,” Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) said in a statement. “Our first task is to explore the framework put in place to respond to serious allegations of impeachable misconduct like those against President Trump.”

Most notably, the hearing will give Trump and his legal team the option to participate. The president and his allies have blasted Democrats over their impeachment inquiry, saying it has failed to include meaningful due process for the president.

Nadler sent a letter to Trump on Tuesday notifying him of his lawyers’ opportunity to attend and giving the president a deadline of Dec. 1 to inform him of whether his attorneys plan to participate.

Nadler also wrote that the committee plans to use the hearing to “analyze” the evidence gathered by the House Intelligence Committee, which wrapped up a series of public hearings last week that focused on allegations Trump pressured Ukraine’s government to investigate his political rivals.

“At base, the president has a choice to make: he can take this opportunity to be represented in the impeachment hearings, or he can stop complaining about the process,” Nadler added. “I hope that he chooses to participate in the inquiry, directly or through counsel, as other presidents have done before him.”

The hearing will be titled, “The Impeachment Inquiry into President Donald J. Trump: Constitutional Grounds for Presidential Impeachment.” The witnesses, who have yet to be announced, will face questions from lawmakers about technical aspects of the impeachment process, including what constitutes a high crime or misdemeanor as defined in the Constitution.

A Judiciary Committee official declined to discuss any additional hearings the panel might hold as it prepares to draft formal articles of impeachment. But lawmakers have privately been discussing a hearing schedule that would ensure the House could wrap up the impeachment inquiry by the end of the year — a priority for senior Democrats.

The Judiciary Committee is expected to hold at least one more hearing allowing Democrats to present their case against Trump, which could come the second week of December. Trump’s lawyers will also have an opportunity to respond, although it is unclear if the president will participate.

The panel could approve articles of impeachment the second week of December, allowing the full House to vote the following week, just before Congress leaves for the holiday break, according to lawmakers and aides.