and the ranking member and his political opponent. you know, when you you can t weaponize the subpoena power of congress and harass the executive branch and not expect the executive branch to use every legal remedy at their dispose sal to oppose the proceedings. you can continue with the proceeding, a political subpoena but you cannot go faster than the courts to decide it. before i finish, i d like to point out a couple things. you know who we haven t subpoenaed is ambassador bolton who basically begged to have one issued to him. we haven t subpoenaed the whistleblower or adam schiff or adam schiff s aid who talked to the whistleblower and the person referred to in this phone call. if we want to talk about abuse and obstruction and why these things are going on, another
the principles of separation of powers and checks and balances demand a president be permitted to resist demands the president finds overly broad, burden assume, harassing or otherwise violative of his constitutional privileges. it is an absurdity to claim the granting of congress applies duties of the cooperation to cooperate in any and all congressional requests, no matter their merit. disputes between the branches are actually a feature, they re a feature of our system, they re not a bug in the system. the branches are required to engage in a process or accommodation to reach an agreement or takes into account the relevant. equities of both sides. both sides have rights and interests to protect. we do and the executive does. if those disputes cannot be resolved the courts are to step in. anything less threatens the separation of powers that is the very foundation of this
of congress. the president pressured a foreign government to target an american citizen for political gain. he solicited foreign inference in the 2020 election. the record is clear, he abused his power. he must be held accountable, because in america, no one is above the law. i yield back, mr. chair. the gentleman yields back. for what purposes does mr. collins seek recognition? i move to strike the last word. it is recognized. i ve listened to this idea of the process and the i fully support this amendment, frankly, we re in a position where we don t need to be. it s also been very interesting to listen all day today to trying to build a case out of nothing. i ve already went through the fact the majority has disparaged
what was right for our country. every witness told us that, too. this is personal. it was all for president trump s personal political gain, to benefit his own campaign and his reelection. that s why he used his personal attorney to do that. he abused his power. he abused the power entrusted to him by we the people, and he placed our safety, millions of dollars of taxpayer money on the table. that is an abuse of power. we must impeach donald j. trump. i yield back. the gentleman lady yields back. for what purposes does mr. armstrong seek recognition? move to strike the last word. the gentleman is recognized. talk about obstruction of congress and subpoenas. i d like to talk about subpoenas and the democratic majority s abuse of subpoenas and how it started. it started in this committee with the subpoena of attorney general bill barr.
my colleagues on the other side understand this is not a fishing expedition but know these documents are there. if they were to help the president they would be urging the president to work with us rather than obstruct us. we have to proceed with this obstruction of congress and articles of impeachment and i oppose this amendment. i yield the balance of my time to mr. johnson. thank you, mr. deutsche. tonight, we are called upon to protect the nation s core values. i will tell you, money and the economy are not our core values. cutting regulations are not our core values. tax cuts for the top 1% not our core values. withholding desperately needed security assistance from an ally desperately in need is not a core value. coercing a foreign power to interfere in a presidential election is not our core value.