Bears a sacred duty. Passed down to us through generations and afimmed in our oath of office to preserve and protect our constitution. Madam speaker, our nations framers recognized that this republic is fragile. And that extreme partisanship can be among the most severe threats to its survival. That is why in federalist 65 Alexander Hamilton wrote, quote, there will always be the greatest danger that impeachment, that impeachment decision will be regulated more by the comparative strength of parties than by real demonstrations of innocence or guilt. Here, madam speaker, our democratic colleagues have been working to remove this president since the day he was elected. Searching for an offense on which they could impeach. Failing to find one, madam speaker, they have decided to assume one. Rather than attempting to enforce their subpoenas in court, they have also decided to declare it a high crime and misdemeanor when the president of the United States asserts his constitutional privileg
And could forever weaken the remedy of impeachment. To again quote professor turley, it is the democrats rush to impeachment on these grounds with unfair procedures that is an abuse of power. History will write that. Madam speaker, as i said at the beginning, we face a choice. Do you trust the wisdom of the people . Or do you deny them a say in their government . Fortunately the people will have the opportunity to speak up and render their verdict in 11 months, to my fellow americans. To my fellow americans, if you prove of the approve of the way this house has conducted its business, if you want to see your tax dollars go forward end toless investigations, support this impeachment. To endless investigations, support this impeachment. But if you want to restore a working Congress Like the Previous Congress that listened to you and worked to bring the best economy in this country and ountry has ever seen one that once again will work with the president to get things done for you and you
House Majority Leader Kevin Mccarthy at his weekly News Conference. Sunday night on q a day and author on his book dignity, those living on the margins of society. I it was a sunday morning believe or saturday, it was empty because all the semis were gone. The intelligence just kind of came right through. We spoke for about half an hour or so. Life, which is almost like a cliche of everything wrong that could happen to somebody. Eventually i asked her what i how do you want me to describe you . Give me one sentence to describe you. It is what i am, a prostitute, a mother. Sunday night at eight eastern a. Spans q coming up shortly we will have your reaction to the house vote but first some of the floor speeches of the house debate. We will hear from doug collins, steve scalise, and House Intelligence Committee chair adam schiff. Mr. Collins madam speaker, a few weeks ago just off of this floor i said that dark cloud was deskending upon this body. Today because of the clock and the calen
N is recognized for one minute. Leages, this ar is a moment you will reard about in your history books. Today, i will vote to impeach the president of the United States, and i want you to know why. He broke our laws. He threatened our security. He abused the highest, most Sacred Office in our land. I want you to know that it does not feel good. I cant stop thinking about the cost to our country. Not just the impeachable offenses but the Collateral Damage of a president who uses power like a weapon against his own people. It 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. The speaker pro tempore the day. My colleagues, this morning and every morning when we come together, member
Hours of work through depositions, open hearings, and compiling all the evidence into todays report. It was enor it was an enormous task and i want to begin by acknowledging the great work of the great and late colleague of mine elijah cummings. We continue to be inspired by his legacy. And guided by thoughts of his integrity and the great moral clarity he always showed in his work. I also want to thank my colleagues, chairman engel, chairwoman maloney, for their tremendous work as well. This report chronicles a scheme by the president of the United States to coerce an ally, ukraine, that is at war with an adversary, russia, into doing the president s political dirty work. It involves a scheme in which donald trump with held official acts of acts, a white house meeting, as well as hundreds of millions of dollars of needed mill tafere assistance, in order to compel that power to deliver two investigations he believed would assist his reelection campaign. I want to underscore first of al