WASHINGTON: An article of impeachment filed against President George W. Bush over the Iraq war will get a committee hearing but not on whether to remove Bush from office.

The House of Representatives voted 238-180 on Tuesday to send to the Judiciary Committee the article of impeachment challenging Bush's reasoning for taking the country to war. The same committee buried a previous article filed by Democratic Rep. Dennis Kucinich, who also offered the new article.

This time, the panel will open hearings. House Democrats emphatically said the hearings will not be about Bush's impeachment, a first step in the Constitution's process of a removing a president from office.

Instead, the panel will conduct an election-year review, possibly televised, of everything Democrats consider to be Bush's abuses of power. Kucinich, a Democrat from Ohio, is likely to testify as are several scholars and administration critics.