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
bless america. gentleman s time is expired. for what purpose does does mr. deutsche seek recognition? move to strike the last word. gentleman s recognized? thank you mr. chairman. mr. chairman, i want to start by agreeing with mr. sensenbrenner. it is always the right time to defend the constitution, and that s the very reason that we re here. there are two articles of impeachment. the first is abuse of power. the president of the united states abused his power by soliciting foreign interference in our elections cheating the american voters. how did he do it? he leveraged life saving taxpayer funded military aid that ukraine desperately needed for assistance in his re-election campaign, and he leveraged a white house meeting that he had promised to the new