accountable. and with that i yield to ms. lofgren from california. >> i thank you, mr. neguse. i was just listening to this debate. and most of us here are lawyers. but the idea that the founding fathers in 1789 would be considering the u.s. code president in the mcconnell case precedent and the as precedent in 1789 is simply ridiculous. mr. neguse has pointed out what the founding fathers had in mind with the impeachment clause. we know that high crimes and misdemeanors is essentially actions that the president uses with the extraordinary power that he's been given under the constitution to subvert the constitutional order to prevent