Good morning, everyone and thank you for joining us. By theeased to be joined speaker and my fellow chairs to announce the introduction of the protecting our democracy act. In introducing this landmark will, the house is taking another important step in our determination to protect our democracy. Since taking office, donald trump has viewed the discuss the constraints on his power and demand for basic transparency and accountability as an inconvenience. He has claimed extraordinary the lawent and broken and purposely undermined the rule of law. He is probed for where his palette powers are least constrained. Weakness,he has found he has exploited it with great consequence for our nation. The House Democratic caucus, under the leadership of the speaker and all the chairs represented here, as well as many others, have stood strong. We defended the law, the constitution and our nations values. Even impeaching the president when he was caught abusing his power in an effort to extort a fore
Followed by the house impeachment managers, accompanied by the house clerk and sergeant at arms delivering the articles to the senate chamber. Speaker pelosi good afternoon. Good afternoon, my colleagues. As you know, on december 18, the house of representatives upheld its constitutional duty and voted articles of impeachment against the president of the united states, donald trump. It said in the course of the debate that he did not uphold his oath of office to defend the constitution. The president takes a special oath, different from the congressional oath. He takes an oath taken by president george washington, the , iniarch of our country front of whose picture we stand here. So tragic for our country that the actions taken by the president to undermine our national security, to violate his oath of office and jeopardize the integrity of our elections has taken us to this place. Today, we will make history. When the managers walk down the hall, we will cross a threshold in history,
Cspan Speaker Pelosi signed the articles and then they were delivered to the senate chamber. Rep. Pelosi . Good afternoon. Good afternoon, my colleagues. As you know, on december 18th,the house of representatives upheld its constitutional duty and voted articles of impeachment against the president of the United States, donald trump. He said in the course of the debate that he did not uphold his oath of office to protect, preserve, and defend the constitution of the United States. The president takes a special oath, a little different from the congressional oath. In fact, he takes an oath that was taken by president george washington, the patriarch of our country and upon whose picture we stand here. So sad, so tragic for a country that the actions taken by the president to undermine our national security, to violate his oath of office, and to jeopardize the purity of our the security and integrity of our elections has taken us to this place. So, today, we will make history when we wal
Managers. And since then, the speaker has signed the articles of impeachment in an engrossment ceremony just a short while ago in the ray burn room on the house side of the capitol. Just after that, the articles of impeachment were walked over to the u. S. Senate led by the house clerk Cheryl Johnson and the sergeant at arms and the seven managers. Theres Speaker Pelosi now walking across the rotunda into the statuary hall. Good afternoon. Good afternoon, my colleagues. As you know, on december 18th, the house of representatives upheld its constitutional duty and voted articles of impeachment against the president of the United States, donald trump. He said in the course of the debate that he did not uphold his oath of office to protect, preserve, and defend the constitution of the United States. The president takes a special oath, a little different from the congressional oath. In fact, he takes an oath that was taken by president george washington, the patriarch of our country and up
She responded to comments that president made in michigan about the late congressman john dingell. It is interesting to see the response we are getting across party lines. I want to say i have a spring in my step because of the moral courage of our caucus. To go toem, so many the floor and speak about our stitution, about the specs the facts of the case, so clearly and patriotically. So solemnly. The precedent for this, and i met with my six chairs after the votes last night, we discussed and theedent of it all, most recent case taking up an impeachment, there was a proposal on the floor put together in a bipartisan way, 100 senators voted for the process on how it would go forward on the case of president clinton, we would hope they would come to a conclusion like that. When we see what they have, we will now who we will send over. We have had a very eventful week. I am proud of our members and the bipartisanship of some of this, some of them not. Last years campaign, we set for the p