Appointing and authorizing managers for the impeachment trial of Donald John Trump, president of the United States. The message will be received. The majority leader. I ask unanimous consent that, pursuant to rule one of rules and procedures and practice, when sitting on impeachment trials, the secretary of the senate inform the house of representatives the senate is ready to receive the managers fully purpose of exhibiting for the purpose of exhibiting articles of impeachment against the president of the United States. Agreeably to the notice communicated by the senate further that, at the hour of 12 00 noon thursday, january 16, 2020, the senate will receive managers on the part of the house of representatives in order that they may present and exhibit the articles of impeachment against Donald John Trump, president of the United States. Is there any objection . If not, so ordered. I ask unanimous consent that, pursuant to rules three and four when sitting on impeachment trials, that
Series against the president. The first article, abuse of power, charges the president with soliciting a foreign power to help him cheat in the next election. Moreover, it alleges and we will prove that he sought to course ukraine into helping him cheat by withholding official acts two official acts. A meeting that the new president of ukraine desperately sought with ukraine at the white house to show the world and the russians in particular that the ukrainian president had a Good Relationship with his most important patron, the president of the united states. And even more perniciously, President Trump illegally withheld almost 400 million in taxpayerfunded military assistance to ukraine. A nation at war with our russian compel ukraine to help him cheat in the election. Astonishingly, the president s trial brief filed yesterday contends that even if this context if this is proved, there is nothing the house or senate may do about it. It is the president s apparent belief that under ar
Litigation instead its been the long practice of the house to compile core evidence necessary to reach a reason decision about whether to impeach and then to bring the case here to the senate for a full trial that is exactly what we did here with an understanding that the senate has its own power to compel documents and testimony it would be one thing if the house had show no interest in documents or wit this is during its investigation although human their of the houses the soul right to determine his proceedings as long as it makes the full case to the house as it did but is quite another when the president is the cause of his own complaint when the present with holds witnesses in documents and then attempts to rely on his own noncompliance to justify further concealment President Trump made it Crystal Clear we would never see a single document or a single witness when he declared as we just watched that he would fight all subpoenas as a matter of history and precedent it would be wr
Approved to date. I am aware of one senator present who was unable to take the impeachment of last thursday. We please rise and raise his right hand and be sworn . Do you solemnly swear that in all things pertaining to the trial of the impeachment of Donald John Trump, president of the United States, now pending, you will do impartial justice according to the constitution and law, to help you god . I do. The secretary will note the name of the senator who has just taken the oath and present the oath to him for signature. The sergeantatarms will make the proper proclamation. Hear ye hear ye hear your, all persons are committed to keep silent on pain of imprisonment. The senate of the United States is sitting for the trial of the articles of impeachment exhibited by the house of representatives against Donald John Trump, president of the United States. The majority leader is recognized. I would like to stay for the information of all senators the trial briefs filed yesterday by the parti
Quorum call the presiding officer the senator from ohio were in a quorum call. The senator will suspend. Without objection. Mr. Brown tomorrow i will do something ive never down. I will vote for a trade agreement, the first time in my career. Im voting for that trade agreement because of the work that my colleague from oregon, senator wyden and i did to fix President Trumps deal and secure new protections for American Workers for the First Time Ever in spite of the president s intransigence, in spite of the president s lining up as he always does with corporate interests because our trade agreement for the First Time Ever, ever put workers at the center of this agreement. Every trade agreement that ive seen in my time in congress, north American Free trade agreement, Central America free trade agreement, the trade agreement with colombia and south korea, one after another, every one of these trade agreements, every one of these trade actions were written fundamentally in secret by corp