It was a Republican from Michigan he left the party back in July in part over how the Republican Party responded to Donald Trump he supported impeachment in response to the Robert Muller report in the Russian vessel geisha and he was the only Republican to do that he ultimately left the party over it it was the Democratic Party that yielded time to him on the floor today and he said when a group of Democrats are advocating to Speaker Pelosi to make an impeachment manager over in the Senate because they think his conviction on this issue and his ability to debate the constitution he is a lawyer would send a very powerful message in a senator just a procedural not sue where Stephen Nunez That s a great question normally the top ranking member of the intelligence community would be presiding over this debate on the floor he doesn t have to you can designate another member we have not seen him on the floor although he has been very loath to engage in this process and has been very dismiss
He abused the power of his office for personal and political gain and has refused to cooperate with a co-equal branch of government this is a vote for our constitution setting the precedent for all future presidents Democrat or Republican Donald Trump must be held accountable for his actions today we send a clear signal to this president and all future presidents no one is above the law I yield back the gentleman from Georgia. Thank you madam speaker at this time of year the minute after the gentleman from Kansas Mr Marshall Genzer recognize him and half I rise today in opposition to the impeachment of the legitimately elected president of the United States enough madam speaker for the love of this country enough as Roger Marshall this congressman from Kansas enough of these sham which guns I m voting no because the president has done nothing wrong the only thing the President Trump is guilty of is doing the things he said he would do and if my Democrat colleagues were honest they tel
They they found the president formulation Madison at one point suggested malfeasance but then he thought better of and thought wow that s going to politicize the process too much because then we ll overuse it that this is the problem it has to be rare enough that it almost never occurs but but common enough that it can be used in extremity and so finding the way to tune the impeachment clause has been one of the was one of the difficulties of the constitutional convention and as you know historically it s proved to be a very difficult business on the the 3 or 4 occasions when it s come up in your country Edwin Randolph introduced it it was part of his Virginia plan Alexander Hamilton submitted his own plan based on the British legal system but not all of the delegates favored it Governor Morris fear that it would cause a president to become submissive leading him to become a quote tool of a faction George Mason said No point is of more importance than the right of impeachment he asked
Take the group of lobbyists that work for all the different kinds of interests that are out there whether conservative or liberal but we ll have to do that the next next you know so let s go back for saying so so. One of the things that I see is through these National Science Foundation and the other entities that they used to to parcel out the money there s various groups set up there s various private interests set up and I see people getting money from the government to do research but then I see those companies taking that research. Let s say for genome for example and you know creating companies and then getting other companies to buy them and then they take off and they never really follow up on any of the research is there that type of problem in the research of Alzheimer s is there is there a corruption issue in that is that one of the reasons we re not finding solutions are you think that that s a nonexistent problem. I d say it s interesting you brought up a number of issues
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