Elections are the heart of our democracy. Our Founding Fathers devised a simple way to remove a president if you disagree with him. Its called an election. And we have one coming up in less than a year. Lets let the people decide this next november and i yield back. Gentleman yields back. Gentleman from new york. Madam speaker, i now yield one minute to the gentle lady from michigan. Gentle lady is recognized for one minute. Thank you. I rise today in support of impeachment. I learned so much every single day from my residents at home. Their common sense and understanding of what is right and wrong is centered on why they oppose any person using the most powerful position in the world for personal gain. We honor our veterans in this chamber almost on a daily basis. But do we ever follow their lead . Where we serve the people of the United States and uphold the constitution, not as republicans or democrats, but as americans. We should learn from their sense of duty and responsibility to
Number of significant procedural protections where the president even on the house side, as you know the role of the house is to act as the grand jury and the prosecutor and the actual trial takes place over in the senate, but still, we had significant procedural protections we invited the president and his counsel to attend, we provided the president s counsel the opportunity to cross examine witnesses and object to the admissibility of testimony, and we provided the president s counsel it make presentation of evidence before the full Judiciary Committee including the chance to call witnesses. The president chose not to avail himself of any of those opportunities. It reminds me the president Blockading Witnesses saying you dont have enough people with direct firsthand evidence. First of all, were those rights provided only in Judiciary Committee. Youre not the Principle Committee of impeachment. Youre sort of the final stop. Did the president get those
rights in the Intelligence Commi
come on, who wants to hear from hunter? no one. thank you, mister chairman. excuse me, hunter, apparently are afraid of my voice. will the gentleman yield for a question? now, unfortunately sir, you did not yield to me so i will not yield to you. the context for that spectacle is amazing. republicans talked about hunter biden, trashed hunter biden, recommended the household in contempt for not talking behind closed doors even though he offered to testify in public, all while hunter biden was sitting there waiting to talk then and they are basically calling their bluff and not being listened to and democrats noticed. so why are we here? well, donald trump insisted to numerous republicans and in public and on twitter and on truth social that joe biden be impeached. why? because donald trump was impeached twice. thank you.
we proved that he was actually fired because he was not prosecuting corruption would the gentleman yield, corruption of the president s son s company? i d like to reclaim my time. gentleman s recognized. so we re going to be seeing a lot of that, i guess. but look, i mean, despite the fact there are parts of the story that were false, twitter executives themselves today admitted that the company shouldn t have blocked the story in the way they did it, but we have not seen evidence that the fbi directed them to do so, which is the basis of why this hearing of sort of the corruption allegations. okay. so what did twitter executives say about requests from the trump white house to take down posts? because what s interesting is when you have a republican saying, okay, the government s trying to direct it. the government s doing this, well, requests come from elected officials and administrations on both sides all the time. yes, this is all we ve
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