The House will vote on a resolution later Wednesday sending the articles of impeachment to the Senate.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi has appointed a team of seven House Democrats to serve as prosecutors in President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial.

She named Reps. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.), Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), Jason Crow (D-Colo.), Val Demings (D-Fla.) and Sylvia Garcia (D-Texas) as managers.

“What is at stake here is the Constitution of the United States. This is what an impeachment is about,” Pelosi said, flanked by her new managers, whose names had remained strictly secret.

The House will vote on a resolution later Wednesday sending the articles of impeachment to the Senate, the last major House act before the trial can begin.

Senators are expected to be sworn in this week but the trial won’t begin in earnest until Tuesday, according to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

Pelosi made clear she hand-picked the Democrats who will present the strongest possible case against Trump — both substantively and procedurally — to the Senate. Leading the team will be Schiff, who was one of the main public faces of impeachment over the last four months.

“The emphasis is on litigators. The emphasis is on comfort level in the courtroom,” Pelosi said, explaining the team she assembled. “The emphasis is on making the strongest case to protect our Constitution.”

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Pelosi made a concerted effort to tap Democrats who don’t come from the traditional liberal power centers: Crow is from Colorado. Garcia is from Texas and Demings is from Florida. Still, more than half of the group hails from New York or California.

Top House Democrats will formally march the articles of impeachment over to the Senate later Wednesday afternoon. It’s an arcane tradition that has been held up since the impeachment vote on Dec. 18 as Pelosi sought to extract concessions from Senate Republicans on the particulars of the trial.