interference in an election, has been exposed, and has attempted to obstruct the ensuing investigation. we cannot rely on the next election as a remedy for presidential misconduct when the president threatens the very integrity of that election. he has shown us he will continue to put his selfish interests above the good of the country. we must act without delay. by his actions, president trump has broken his oath of office. his conduct continues to undermine our constitution and threaten our next election. his actions warrant his impeachment and demand his removal from office. i urge my colleagues to support these articles and i reserve the balance of my time. the gentleman from georgia. thank you, madam speaker. my pleasure at this time to yield three minutes to the gentleman from wisconsin, mr. sensenbrenner. the gentleman is recognized for three minutes. madam speaker, i rise in opposition to impeaching the president. the constitution says that any civil officer including t
our committee held its first hearing literally the day after schiff publicly released his report. in the first minutes of the hearing mr. sensenbrenner furnished the chairman with our demand for a minority day of hearings and set a deadline of december 6th for the president and republicans to present additional witnesses. it wasn t until saturday, the day after the deadline, the chairman transmitted 8,000 pages of material to the judiciary committee, and we still haven t gotten anything, not that it matters to the majority. you can still go ahead and vote for yes tomorrow and vote for yes today and do that. but it should matter for this institution that while i was in georgia, i received a call from my staff saying they just released 8,000 documents on thumb drives, some of which were going to be kept in a secure holding and when i asked the chairman about these documents, he said, we re not going to read them either, we re not going to have a chance to go through them, we re just goin
no. miss mccarsel powell votes no. miss escobar votes no. mr. collins votes aye. mr. sensenbrenner votes aye. mr. chabot? mr. chabot votes aye. mr. gohmert votes aye. mr. buck? mr. buck votes aye. mr. ratcliffe votes yes. miss roby votes aye. mr. gates? mr. gates votes aye. mr. johnson of louisiana? aye. mr. johnson of louisiana votes aye. mr. biggs? mr. biggs votes aye. mr. mcclintock votes aye. miss lesko votes aye. mr. klein votes aye. mr. armstrong votes yes. mr. stuby votes yes.
miss dean votes aye. miss mccarsel powell? aye. miss mccarsel powell votes aye. miss escobar? aye. miss escobar votes aye. mr. collins? no. mr. collins votes no. mr. sensenbrenner? no. mr. sensenbrenner votes no. mr. shabbat? no. mr. shabbat votes no. mr. gohmert? no. mr. jordan votes no. mr. buck? no. mr. buck votes no. mr. radcliffe? mr. radcliffe votes no. miss roby? no. mr. gaetz votes no. mr. johnson of louisiana? no. mr. johnson of louisiana votes no. mr. biggs? no. mr. biggs votes no. mr. mcclintock? no. mr. mcclintock votes no.
got in trouble and was going to be impeached, but he resigned before he was articles of impeachment were voted on by the judiciary committee, but then before the house took it up, he resigned from office, and little did i know that about 25 years later our nation would be going through another impeachment, and that was bill clinton, obviously, and that i d be very closely involved in that. and of the 41 people on this committee, five of us were here in those days. mr. sensenbrenner and i on the republican side and chairman, mr. nadler and ms. lofgren and ms. jackson. all five of us. mr. sensenbrenner and i happened to be house managers, the prosecutors in the case, and some of the folks on the other side are going to get that opportunity and good luck. mr. sensenbrenner remembers henry hyde was our leader at the time, and he said we re not going to be very welcomed over there, and we weren t, so we ll