the customary 30 minutes to the gentleman from oklahoma, my good friend, mr. cole. pending that i yield such time as it may consume. during consideration of this resolution all time is yielded for the purposes of debate only. i ask unanimous consent all members be given five days. on tuesday the rules committee met and reported a closed rule for house resolution 767 providing for consideration of house 755 impeaching donald john trump president of the united states for high crimes and misdemeanors. the rule provides six hours of debate equally divided and control by the chair and ranking minority member or their designees. it provides the question of the adoption of the resolution shall be divided between two articles. the rule limits access to the house floor. it provides at any time after adoption of h rest 755 for consideration of a resolution
impeachment investigation in 660, the process outlined did not have protections afforded the minority party. even more concerning schiff and nadler refused to comply with the very rules of the house in granting access to committee records for members and scheduling a minority hearing in a reasonable amount of time. thus preventing the american people from being equally represented in the process. refusing to allow members to access their own records. these are records of members of the house of representatives and we were not allowed to access these records obtained down in secret under armed guard in the intelligence committee. but it is required under section 2e of rule 11. they ve denied members the ability to do their job. the judiciary committee did not hear testimony from even one fact witness, not even one. after they received a deluge of materials from the intelligence committee.
house voted to authorize the official impeachment investigation, in h. res 660, the process did not include the robust minority protections afforded the minority party in previous impeachment investigations. even more concerning, chairman nadler, chairman schiff, refused to comply with the very rules of the house in granting access to committee records for members and scheduling a minority hearing in a reasonable amount of time, thus preventing the american people from being equally represented in the process. refusing to allow members to access their own records, these are records of members of the house of representatives that they were not allowed to access these records obtained down in secret under armed guard in the intelligence committee, but it s required under section 2e, rule 11. they ve denied members the ability to do their job. the judiciary committee did not hear testimony from even one fact witness.
executi executive? no. did the democratic department come into quid pro quo with the iranian controversy? no. has anyone in the trump administration been convicted of a crime related to the claim? no. let me continue. it s my understanding that the majority properly exercised the cause to j-1 of rule 11 to demand a minority hearing. is that the case? that is correct. what day did you ask for that hearing? i asked the first time. i don t have the dates in front of me. i have them right in front of me so i ll be happy to provide that. in a long letter, we were told it was dilatory.
chairman mcgovern, i ask unanimous consent this this memo be made part of the record. i will note that the memo states in part that a point of order may lie against reported measure in which the minority s demand for a hearing was rejected. objection noted. i also refer in the record our response to kwour lettyour lett can talk about that afterward. chairman nadler overruled the ranking member s point of order, and determined that the rule requires that the normal hearing day would permit the minority to improperly delay proceedings. were you improperly trying to delay proceedings, mr. collins? no, in this hearing i actually follow a proper set of