American peoples money on this impeachment, theres so many other important things that are going undone. Within this committees own jurisdiction, we should be addressing the opioid epidemic. We could be working together to find a solution to our immigration and asylum challenges on our southern border. We could be protecting americans from having their intellectual property and jobs stolen by chinese companies. And we could be enhancing Election Security just to name a few things. And congress as a whole could be working on rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure. Providing additional tax relief to the nations middleclass families and providing additional security to our people here at home and abroad. Instead, here we are spinning our wheels once again on impeachment. What a waste. The American People deserve so much better. I yield back. Gentleman yields back. Mr. Cohen. Thank you, mr. Chair. I take no pleasure in the fact that were here today. As a patriot who loves america, it pain
Last word. The gentleman is recognized. I yield to the Ranking Member. The gentle lady from california misstieated somethin that i addressed head on last night. Undersecretary stated this was perspective money, it was not interfering and dealing with this issue. For those of us who have been in a war, people die in a war zone. This money did not cause that. Thank you, reclaiming my time. Mr. Chairman, the biggest difference in the clinton impeachment and this one is that president clinton committed a crime, perjury. This president isnt even accused of committing a crime. The constitution is pretty clear on what constitutes an impeachable defense, treason, bribery and other high crimes and misdemeanors. Its not, or whatever else nancy pelosi and adam schiff deem impeachable. I think we can all agree that no president should abuse the powers of his or her office, just like the chairman of the House Committee shouldnt abuse
the powers of his office to obtain and publish the Phone Records
Other important things that are going undone. Within this committees own jurisdiction we should address the Opioid Epidemic and could be working together to find solutions to the challenges on our southern border. Protecting americans from jobs stolen by Chinese Companies and enhancing Election Security to name a few things. Congress as a whole could be working on rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure, providing additional tax relief to the nations middle class families and providing additional security to our people here at home and abroad. Instead here we are spinning our wheels once again on impeachment. What a waste. The American People deserve so much better. I yield back. Gentleman yields back. Thank you, mr. Chair. I take no pleasure in the fatha were here today. As a patriot who loves america,
it pain meese ths me the circum force us to undertake this solemn obligation. Nonetheless on the public evidence it appears President Trump pressured a Foreign Government to interfere i
between ukraine and russia. mr zelenskiy was at pains to point out that that was not sustainable, that african countries would have to choose sides. and he encouraged them to come on the side of ukraine. the reason he gave for that, he said you ve come here because your economies are suffering. there s a shortage of grain. he claims ukraine didn t cause that, russia caused that by making it difficult for ships to pass through the black sea. and therefore, if they supported ukraine, they would send a clear message to russia that they didn t support what he described as the invasion of ukraine. so lots to think about there for african leaders as they meet president putin today. south african president cyril ramaphosa said he would be having a bilateral meeting with mr putin there to take mr zelensky s concerns to him. our correspondence speaking to me earlier.
where they might lean, but officially no african countries had taken sides in this conflict, and they say that s because they see this as strictly business between ukraine and russia. mr zelenskiy was at pains to point out that that was not sustainable, that african countries would have to choose sides. and he encouraged them to come on the side of ukraine. the reason he gave for that, he said you ve come here because your economies are suffering. there s a shortage of grain. he said ukraine didn t cause that, russia caused that by making it difficult for ships to pass through the black sea. and therefore, if they supported ukraine, they would send a clear message to russia that they didn t support what he described as the invasion of ukraine. so lots to think about there for african leaders as they meet president putin today. south african president cyril ramaphosa said he would be having a bilateral meeting with mr putin there to take mr zelensky s concerns to him. 0ur correspond