Power like a weapon against his own people, erodes our decency, degrades our dignity. I dont yet know how they will tell the story of this era, but i want to tell you the story of this day. Let the record show that today justice won, that we did our job, that we kept our word, that we stood our sacred ground. Let the record show that we did not let you down. I love you. Listen to mom. Ill be home soon. Gentlemans time has expired. Gentleman from oklahoma. Thank you, madam speaker. Im going to reserve my time for the moment. Gentleman reserves. Gentleman from massachusetts. Im proud to yield one minute to the gentle woman from california, ms. Lee. The gentle lady is recognized for one minute. First let me say i taught my children that there are consequences if they broke the
law. I am saddened but im not shocked that we are here today considering articles of impeachment against President Trump. Im saddened, but im not shocked because of the pattern of corruption we have seen from this p
Hunter biden behind closed doors. And so now the huge irony is that as the process moves to the senate, when republicans are going to control the entire process, theyre saying even though our argument was that we were cheated and this is unfair in the house, now that we control it, we dont want witnesses and we dont want a trial. Unbelievable. Thank you so much, heidi. Let me go back to garrett on the floor. Whats happening now . That measure did not succeed . Reporter it wont succeed. Were waiting on a few more votes to be cast. Im watching a couple more tick off the board. We expect this will probably be the last of the procedural hurdles at this phase of the game. We expect the next thing to happen will be the debate on the actual rules setting the terms of debate for the Articles Of Impeachment. This will look like an actual debate when it gets started. You will see members start to hash out not just the Process Arguments that you heard from heidi, but also democrats will
be making
and the american people see right through this today. they ve seen the rigged process. they ve seen the lack of transparency and the complete absence of any supporting evidence. they know that washington s broken and that s why here, to fix it. but instead house democrats are dividing the country and further shaking the people s trust in this congress. it s a sham impeachment. it s been carried out at the expense of hard working americans who just want us to move forward. madam speaker, this charade should go no farther. we should stop wasting time, focus on what keeps our nation moving forward, helping workers and families thrive. protecting the safety and security of our country. i urge my colleagues to vote against the rule so we can get back to work for the american people. i yield back. the gentleman from massachusetts. i yield one min tout the gentleman from new mexico,
trump s impeachment, they may ask, mommy, what did grandma do? i want my daughter to tell her children grandma did the right thing because in america no one is above the law. with his conduct around ukraine, president trump corruptly abused his power for his own interests at direct odds with our national welfare and our constitution. this president put his interests before those of this nation. left unchecked he d do it again and has said so. the actions and on going schemes that led us to this moment are severe threats to our national security and democracy that we can t defend or dismiss. i must fulfill my constitutional duty and vote to impeach this president. his corrupt conduct and assault on our constitution leave no other choice. i yield back. gentleman from oklahoma. i continue to reserve my time. gentleman from massachusetts. madam speaker, i yield one min tout the gentleman from california. the gentleman is recognized for one minute.
the second thing they missed is the historical context of this as well. every administration has incl e included some kind of nationality or country of origin question except for the obama administration in 2010, but even president obama s administration for the annual census estimates surveys that they were doing, they asked that question. charles: right. so to say this is somehow discriminatory or a problem is wrong because the reason you need to know is because you cannot dilute some congressional districts in favor of others. in other words, if you have 612,000 legal residents in one and only have 400,000 in another, then the 612,000 are going to get effectively less representation than you would charles: less representation and also of course less money, talking 600 billion dollars at stake. exactly. charles: we have a min tout