Senate Majority Lisa Brown says she personally disagrees with her colleagues' push to impeach the president. Brown talked to Sen. Patty Murray and Congressman Jay Inslee last week about a hearing scheduled Thursday on Sen. Eric Oemig's call for Congress to investigate and consider impeaching Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.

"They think impeachment is the wrong focus," Brown said. The two Democratic members of the state's congressional delegation wanted to talk about what Democrats in D.C. are doing to hold the Bush administration accountable. And Brown says she agrees:

"Personally I feel that they're doing a pretty good job in ... Congress, of investigating the Bush administration and really focusing on the problems in the Bush case for the war. I think they're on task in Congress right now on those issues."

Brown has said that the impeachment resolution, and a second one opposing the Bush troop increase, would get a hearing. But a vote will only come on the floor if there is strong Democratic support for it. So far it's unclear whether there is enough support among Senate Democrats.

Before Thursday, Brown said she will talk to the bills' sponsors to let them know that she hopes the hearing doesn't become any sort of platform for national voices for and against Bush and the war in Iraq.

"I would prefer that the focus be on hearing from people from Washington state, on both sides of the issue. That's the main reason to have a hearing in the Washington State Legislature."