national security and going after terrorists who wish to do us harm. but again we re here because the democrats don t want to talk about the red hot trump economy. they don t want to talk about the lowest unemployment rates in 50 years. we re here because democrats don t want to talk about how president trump has finally held china accountable for currency manipulation, for dumping steel and aluminum in american markets. someone is finally holding china accountable for ip theft and forced ip transfers. that s president trump who s doing that. president trump is also renegotiating trade deals to benefit american workers and farmers. we should have passed usmca months ago, months ago but again we haven t done it because we re dealing with impeachment. the president has also worked on free trade agreements with japan. he s worked on free trade agreements across south america. president trump has also reduced
told your votes don t count. i yield back. i yield back as well. gentleman yields back. does anyone else seek recognition on this amendment? what purpose? strike the last word, mr. chairman. gentleman is recognized. thank you, mr. chairman. we ve been here a while and i want it to be noted i have several other amendments for tonight. speaking in support of my colleague gym jordanim jordan s amendment but i think we re getting too caught up in the weeds in particular. so wave got to zoom out and think about why we re here. we re here because the democrats again are terrified the president is going to win re-election. let s just go through the list of his accomplishments. donald trump signed the largest scale criminal justice reform in decades, in decades. and i should add if it weren t for this waste of time with impeachment, we could be working
making an announcement of a bogus investigation of a political opponent of him for his own personal benefit, and that he obstructed congress by refusing all information and instructing the executive branch not to cooperate with congress in the impeachment inquiry. this amendment this amendment simply takes the last two paragraphs out of each article. it takes the paragraph where it says where for the president should be impeached. and takes the force and effect of the articles entirely away. it is sillily if you believe that the president is guilty of what the articles charge him with, you should vote for the articles of impeachment. if you believe he is not, you should vote against the articles of impeachment, but to try to have this amendment that simply renders the articles, catalogs
just drips. listen to what it says right here. this is right here on the page the lines we want to strike. it says in part, president trump warrants impeachment in trial, removal from office and disqualification to enjoy any office of honor or trust or profit under the united states. look, they don t want to remove him from the oval office, okay? they want to crush him, they want to destroy donald trump, they want to banish him from the marketplace. it s so over the top. professor turley is only witness that has been allowed. we got one witness in the process, and he was not a donald trump supporter. he came in famously and said i don t vote for him, didn t support him but i came to give objective analysis because my
first they told us this has to be bipartisan. now, i get folks watching at home i think that i m somebody who really likes the president and i d probably be a hard vote for them to get for impeachment. but it s not just they can t convince the president s supporters to abandon him, they can t even convince the president s critics to abandon him. i mean jeff van drew, collin peterson, two members of congress, two democrats, they re not fans of the president. they re critics of the president, and yet they didn t vote with democrats. they voted with republicans. we ve even got some republicans, my colleague will hurd from texas, he didn t mind being a critic of the president, and he was honest and told them this is not impeachable conduct. they told us that the process would be fair. and yet even when members of this committee sought the opportunity not to read a transcript or see someone s second performance of their testimony but to see their first-hand account, how they