Been looking for an excuse to impeach this president for a long time now. In fact, when they took over the house pardon of the interruption here. Im going to step out here at the top of the hour, but our coverage of the impeachment proceedings continue now on msnbc. Stay with us. Its all about politics, hurting the president , hurting his reputation. They dislike him intensely. As i mentioned the other day, they really loathe this president and theyre trying to hurt his chances in the next election. But one of my real concerns, and i have a lot of them about this whole thing, and i mentioned this earlier today, im very concerned about is that the democrats are really lowering the bar for impeaching a president in the future. Its becoming too routine. Its becoming the new normal. For 200 years in our nation we had one impeachment, one in 200 years, Andrew Johnson. And now in less than 50 years
were in our third one this time around. And i really am concerned that from now on in all like
President for a long time now. In fact, when they took over the house, one of their members filed articles of impeachment that very day and really since Inauguration Day many wanted to impeach him. This is really all about in my view, its all about politics. Its all about hurting the president , hurting his reputation. They dislike him intensely. As i mentioned the other day they really loathe this president , and theyre trying to hurt his chances in the next election. It may well do just the opposite. One of my real concerns, and af lot of them about this whole thing. I mentioned this earlier today, im very concerned about is that The Democrats are really lowering the bar for impeaching a president in the future. Its becoming too routine. Its becoming the new normal. For 200 years in our nation wed had one impeachment, one in 200 years, Andrew Johnson and now in less than 50 years were in our third one this time around. And i really am concerned that from now on in all likelihood when
the united states. we came to lower health care costs, and that s exactly what we did today. we voted on hr3 today to lower prescription drug prices. they say let the american people decide. well, that is why last week we voted on the voting rights amendment act, which many of my republican colleagues voted against. let americans decide. yes, that is exactly why we re here because we don t want russia, ukraine, or china making the decision for us in our american government. this president has committed the highest crime by abusing the power of his office, inviting foreign interference in our elections, and that is why we are here today. please don t confuse americans with false claims and pushing debunked conspiracy theories. we are here to tell the american people the truth. i yield back. gentle lady yields back. who seeks recognition? what purposes mr. mcclintock
our election. we will move to impeach president trump because of the abuse of power through self-dealing. the betrayal of the national security in the service of foreign interest. and the corruption of our election that under mine our dm democratic system. they know the president is a threat to the election. they know is a threat to the standing in the world. we will have to do it. we will have to move to impeach. i yield now to representative jackson lee. i thank the general lady for yielding. my remarks are this. to my friend on the other side of the aisle and the americans listening and the soldiers wearing uniforms. i have no dislike of anyone who voted for anyone in 2016.
and i really am concerned that from now on in all likelihood when you have the president of the united states and you have the house of representatives and they re opposite parties, you re going to end up with the base in the house of representatives pushing very hard at members to impeach that president, and it s very divisive for the nation. so many other things don t get done when you re going through an impeachment. for example, opioids, 70,000 almost americans lost their lives last year, but we ve done very little about opioids in this committee, and we have jurisdiction over it, doing something about our southern border, which is still like a sieve. far too many people come in illegal. we do almost nothing there. overall in congress our infrastructure, roads and highways it s crumbling but we do very little about that. i think the american people deserve a lot better than what they re getting from this committee or from this congress. so in any event, i want to thank the folks ou