in addition, mr. chairman, pursuant to house rule 11, cause 2, j1, the republican members transmit our request to convene a minority day of hearings. to date you have blocked key witnesses that we have requested from testifying in this partisan impeachment inquiry. this rule was not displaced by h660 and therefore under house rule 11, clause 1a, it applies to the democrats' impeachment inquiry. we look forward to the chair promptly scheduling an agreed upon time for the minority day of hearings so that we can hear from key witnesses that you have continually blocked from testifying. i would also like to take a quick moment on an assertion ms. hill made in the statement she submitted to this committee in which she claimed that some committee members deny that russia meddled in the 2016