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That prosecutor investigating corruption into burisma or youre not going to get a billion dollars. and six hours later, thats what happened. thats called influence peddling. that is a crime. and there is a prima facie case for that, and it is absolutely appropriate for a president to ask about that. i yield to my friend -- >> i thank the gentleman for the yield. i want to respond to the gentlewoman from texas. she said the president makes up his own policy. thats how it is in our country. you ge...

Clear that burisma paid about $3.4 million to the company of hunter and his partner archer. that is really intriguing the investigations surrounding burisma stock, and burismas reputation around ukraine is low, and it was dubious even before this impeachment inquiry raised it to new attention. lets face it, according to ukranian sources, burisma is not on everyones front burner in ukraine. but it is here. because we were providing hundreds of millions of dollars to tukraine in foreign aid. and t...

Vice president? well, he said, probably not. then i look to the record evidence. and i looked at the testimony of mr. kent. mr. kent was one of the witnesses they called on the first day. they said burisma was so dirty that our own embassy had to pull out of a joint sponsorship with them. when ambassador yavonovitch was being prepped for her conversation, they were so worried about burisma and hunter biden that they held special prep moments to try to get ready for the inevitable questions about...

Has, as the chief executive, the ability to ask about matters where there is a prima facie case of corruption. what do we have with hunter biden? tons of money in a position where he has no ukranian experience, where he has no experience with ukraine or with energy, and at the very same time that the ukranians were deciding that hunter biden was the perfect person to get that sweet, hard deal, the chinese were deciding that hunter biden was the perfect person to get a sweetheart deal to manage $...

Something under which there was no reasonable basis to ask a question about hunter biden and burisma. hunter biden and burisma, thats an interesting story. and i think just about every american knows theres something up with that. $86,000 a month, no experience, working for some foreign government while your dad is the vice president of the united states? is there anyone who believes this is okay? i know we got a few of my democratic colleagues running for president or might run for president on...

Ayes and 23 nos. >> the amendment is not agreed to. is there any further amendment. mr. gates? >> i amend to the desk. the gentlelady reserves a point of order. >> amendment to the amendment in the nature of a substitute to hr 755 offered by mr. gates of florida, page 3, strike out lines 10 and 11 and enter the following. a known company named burisma and. >> this amendment strikes the reference of joe biden as the center of the investigation and replaces it with the true topic of the investigat...