christmas. during the clinton impeachment in 1998 the chairman said at a bare minimum the president's accusers must go beyond hearsay and innuendo and beyond the demands that the president prove his innocence of vague and changing charges. i would submit those words ring as true today as the chairman believed them to be in 1998. the impeach. record is reliant on hearsay, innuendo and assumptions. democrats have lobbed charges for impeachment going as far back as the president's inauguration. for all these reasons the extraordinary exercise of the house's impeachment authority is not warranted on the evidentiary record presented. thank you for allowing me to present this information this morning. and i yield back. >> the gentleman yields back.