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President or were going to let some foreign power do it. You know who has the right to elect the american president , the citizens of this country and no one else. Men and women have died on the battlefield to protect our democracy. The least we can do is show the courage to stand up tonight and do our part to protect our democracy. With that i yield back. Gentleman yields back. Does anyone else seek recognition on the amendment . Mr. Armstrong. Gentleman is recognized. And im going to go back to the actual language of the amendment and in particular the removal from office and disqualificatio...

Elect the american president . The citizens of this country and no one else. Men and women have died on the battlefield to protect our democracy. The least we can do is show the courage to stand up tonight and do our part, to protect our democracy. With that, i yield back. The gentleman yields back. Does anyone else seek recognition on the amendment . Armstrong. Armstrong. For what purposes buzz mr. Armstrong seek recognition . Move to strike is the last word. And im going to go back to the initial language of the amendment, and particularly the removal from office and disqualification to hold...

Allowed to use minority rights that this is more akin to a special counsel. adam schiff has referred to himself as a special counsel. it's more akin to an investigation or a grand jury. well, right now what we are doing is becoming the judge, jury and executioner. the senate has determined that issues of removal and disqualification are divisible from other articles of impeachment. essentially, what happens in the senate is there is a two-thirds vote if an impeachment is grant and a simple majority to say whether they're going to hold from other office. while the house has the sole power of im...

When we have talked about secrecy when we've not been allowed to use minority recognizes, that this is more akin to a special counsel. adam schiff has referred to himself as a spec counsel. right now what we are doing is becoming the judge, jury and executioner. the senate has determined issues of removal and disqualification are deviceable from other articles of impeachment. essentially what happens in the senate is there a two thirds vote and a dissenting majority. while the house has the sole power of impeachment, the senate also provides -- the constitutional also provides that the senate ...

When they wrote the constitution which was to make the legislative power central said that if a demagogue was ever finally to be stopped it would happen on the floor of the united states senate because of the conviction power. and so that is the last arena. and there are a couple of things here just to think about. you know, the american presidency since world war ii, and then what happened in august of 1945 with the ushering in of the nuclear age has become unimaginably powerful. it's going to skip to the framers and say to madison and hamilton, you know, the presidency was going to be like t...