Being anccused of abuse of power is, in my opinion, a policy disagreement on how the president should have approached the issues that are out light there. Goes, theforeign aid issue of the 391 million of foreign aid to ukraine, is practically every bit of foreign aid the United Statess purses following the congressional appropriation is contingent on something. Or another. Common trends, whether in the ornate enactment there, is whether or not is any type of corruption that is involved in that. I think we have conceded that ukraine has been a corrupt country and that president anensky was elected on anticorruption platform and we wish it well. The fact is, i think the president would have been derelict in his duties had he held off or just given the foreign aid without trying to check on corruption. That is what was going on. As far as obstruction of congress is concerned, earlier today i talked about the fact that this article is drafted so loosely and so weakly that it arns the congr
Members question the fcc chair about Digital Currency, shareholder protection and climate related financial disclosures. This is an hour and a half. Today we will receive testimony from security and Exchange Commission chairman regarding the work and agenda of the fcc. I thank you for your willingness to appear before the committee today and mr. Clean your willingness to testify the borrower side of the fcc. You ca came before this committa year ago and am sure dusty would continue to take steps to ensure the Capital Markets remained the deepest and most liquid in the world. I commend you and the staff for your actions taken over the past year. Actions worth mentioning include the final rule package on regulation best interest which is great as the appropriate balance in increasing transparency and investors relationships while preserving access to the advice relationships and investment products. They also propose modifying the accelerated definition to reduce the number of registered
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Lincoln said we are in the heart of the civil, war america is the last, vast hope on earth. Fdr, said on the eve of the second world war, democracy is not dying. Reagan said in the midst of the cold war, america is a shining city on a hill. What exactly will history say about us . Will we put principle over party . Will we put the constitution above corruption . Will we put democracy over demagoguery . What exactly will history say about us . I yield now to my distinguished colleague from the great state of texas, this mrs. Escobar. Thank, you mister chairman, im going to speak directly to the American People once again and im going to ask but they bypass the republican talking points that weve heard over and over and over again, especially for those americans who have been listening and watching all day, and instead go directly to the evidence yourself. Over 100 hours of testimony, testimony by some of americas greatest patriots, over 250 text messages, Mick Mulvaneys own words, mr. M
Sondland whether president zelensky was going to, quote, do the investigation. We have the president many public statements, including his october 3rd statement that ukraine and china should investigate his political rival. Even though minority counsel mr. Castor admitted there was direct evidence he said we had some direct evidence on certain things and we had direct evidence on the may 23rd meeting, and sondland given direct evidence, and quote, the second hand accounts are also extensively corroborated. For example, ambassador taylor mr. Morrison both testify during as number seven phone call with ambassador sondland, President Trump said there was no quid pro quo for that president zelensky had to go to the microphone and announce investigations. And im giving with one hand taking away with the other. Ambassador sondland testified he had no reason to dispute ambassador taylor mr. Morrisons testimony about this conversation. There is also circumstantial evidence. There was no contem