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Presidential race. it wasn't appropriate to do that. but presidents do things that are inappropriate all the time. a violation of the constitution? a risk to our democracy that he did this? no. all this mystery about all these witnesses, we do have this transcript, you know? it is out there in public view. there just isn't much to go on. let's get through the process. let's have the public hearings and back to work. but the one great political advantage for the republicans here is if the democrats persist in this, they will probably have the record of going for almost four years, the entire fi...

Democratic president. today's resolution shows a democratic house failing to give these same protections to a republican president. madam speaker the unfairness is clear. this is not a fair process nor was it ever intended to be. it was pre-or daneed from the beginning. without due process and without a fair process that respects minority rights i don't believe the american people will regard this process as legitimate. >> bill: tom cole is making his case here. the way the democrats, a series of committees will have a interviews and depositions, however, whatever word you want to use. they wi...

Ranking member of the judiciary committee i have a question. we've been here 200 plus years as a committee and our committee has been neutered. our committee who handles impeachment. we're the reason in that committee that's our jurisdiction. we have been completely sidelined. our chairman and others have been sidelined and i have been sidelined. it is so bad they had to have the rules committee write the presidential due process and give it to us. this is not right. i wish -- >> give the additional 15 seconds. >> i don't know what happened to our committee. we still exist. due process only ki...

Records. this is common sense. if you're doing something as serious as impeaching the president, then members should have the right to see what records the committee produced so that they will know what they are voting on. yet the majority rejected that. we offered an amendment that would require a chairman of the rules committee to promulgate procedures to allow for a participation of the president and his counsel in proceedings of the intelligence committee, the oversight committee, the foreign affairs committee. this right was granted to president clinton in 1998 yet it is not present here....

People who know that they are paying higher drug prices and they say there is legislation, bipartisan legislation to lower drug prices that won't come to this floor because of the infatuation with impeachment, we don't even have a bill to formally pay our troops and make sure they have the tools they need to defend this country because there is such an infatuation with impeachment. madam speaker when you look through this resolution and see how one-sided, how soviet style this is running, this is the united states of america. don't run a sham and tainted process like this resolution insures. i...