Gaetz, paul manafort. The circle goes on. He is surrounded by criminals. Then we hear, well, it cant be Obstruction Of Congress, you could have all just went to court. Well, we are in december. We have an ongoing crime. We have a crime in progress. That is what the 911 call would say from a police officer. We have a crime in progress. And they are saying with a crime in progress, why didnt you just schedule an appointment to call the police . We have an emergency to our National Election going on right now. Our oath to the constitution requires us to take this drastic, solemn, and regrettable step. But it is necessary because if we dont protect americas precious right to vote, it is clear that the other side wont. And so i talked about the courage of yesterday. Today i am reminded of judas. Because judas for 30 pieces of
silver betrayed jesus. For 30 positive tweets for easy reelection, the other side is willing to betray the American People, their precious right to vote and the future
their argument. i ve now given the article that the gentleman from california wants admitted again, perpetrating the falsehood that people were killed because of money. and in the own article biassed against the president and the whole situation, it has this line. although there s no way to link markoff directly to the aid. let s put stuff in here that proves the pathetic argument. it actually says there s no way to link it. yet we re doing it every time in here. keep giving them. i ll keep accepting them. wonderful article. great job. because you re making my point i guess i could hush and let you make my point for me. you want to go after mr. sellenssell en zelensky as weak and powerless. it makes my point. any more you want to put in? keep going. that s not going to get you
anywhere. i yield back. i yield back. gentleman yields back. mr. chairman? gentleman yields back without objection, material will be inserted in the record. gentle lady is recognized. i would like to ask unanimous consent to put a roll call article into the record entitled ukrainian lie lives hung in the balance as trump held up aid. without objection. for what purpose does mr. johnson seek recognition? move to strike the last word. gentleman is recognized. thank you, mr. chairman i move in opposition to the biggs amendment. my colleague from georgia talks about how democrats are trying to make president zelensky look weak. well, i tell you, that brings to mind the picture of president
for 30 positive tweets for an easy re-election, the other side is willing to betray the american people their precious right to vote and the future of our great country and with that, i yield back. gentleman yields back. for what purpose does gentleman seek recognition? strike the last word. gentleman is recognized. i m really intrigued. first we re told that the offense is withholding aid, even though it was provided and, in fact, provide d tremendously boh helpful in substance and amount than the prior administration, just letting people die over there. i thought the acknowledgement had been that the aid was provided. but now we re told this is an ongoing crime those two
ambassador taylor, when he came and testified under oath, he said during our call on september 8th, ambassador sondland tried to explain president trump is a businessman, when a businessman is about to sign a check to someone who owes him something he asks that person to pay up before signing. i argued, he said, that made no sense. ukrainians did not owe president trump anything. that s true. they owed him nothing to get the white house meeting. they owed him nothing to get their aid, and they owed nothing to him for his assistance in his campaign. i yield back. mr. chairman? gentleman yields back. what purpose? i move to strike the last word. gentleman is recognized. i yield to the ranking member. thank you. it is amazing to me that, again, the things that will come out of this markup is not the simple fact that they ll mark this up and send it to the floor. it s what they will perpetrate to try to hide the weakness of