-What purpose does the gentleman from Arizona seek recognition?
-Madam Speaker, so we can stop
wasting America's time on impeachment,
I move that the House do now adjourn.
-Whereas Chairman Schiff and Chairman Nadler willfully
and intentionally violated the rules
of the House of Representatives
by abusing and exceeding their powers
as chairmen of committees.
-Members should be required to stand and identify themselves
openly and on-camera on the question of adoption
of these articles of impeachment.
-The President of the United States
endangered our national security.
The president undermined our democracy.
And the president, a successor to the same office
as George Washington and Abraham Lincoln,
betrayed his oath to preserve, protect,
and defend the Constitution of the United States.
-I thought it hilarious that the Minority Leader
in the Senate went out and did a press conference
and said, "They denied my witnesses.
They denied my requests."
Well, welcome to the club, Mr Schumer.
That's exactly what's happened over here
for the last three months.
-Amen. -So, today, we're going
to talk a lot about impeachment,
we're going to talk a lot about our President,
and we're going to talk about two articles of impeachment --
abuse of power, because they can't actually pin
anything of factual basis on him.
The President did nothing wrong in this issue.
And then they're going to talk about obstruction of Congress.
You know, obstruction of Congress,
as I've said before, is like petulant children saying,
"We didn't get our way, when we didn't ask the right way
and we didn't actually go after it and try to make a case."
You know why, Madam Speaker?
The clock and the calendar.
-"When we are dancing with the angels, the question will be,
what did we do to make sure we kept our democracy intact?"
Elijah, as you know, has since passed on.
Now he is dancing with the angels,
and I know that he and all of us here
are very proud of the moral courage of members
who want to honor the vision of our founders for a republic,
the sacrifice of our men and women
in uniform to defend it,
and the aspirations of our children
to live freely within it.
Today, we are here to defend democracy for the people.
-I come to this floor not as a Democrat,
not as a Republican, but as an American.
President Donald J.
Trump has abused and violated the public trust
by using his high office
to solicit the aid of a foreign power --
not for the benefit of the United States of America,
but, instead, for his personal and political gain.
-We face this horror because of this map.
This is what the Democrats fear.
They fear the true will of we the people.
They are deep establishment D.
C.
They fear.
They call this Republican map flyover country.
They call us deplorables.
They fear our faith.
They fear our strength.
They fear our unity.
They fear our vote.
And they fear our president.
-When Jesus was falsely accused of treason, Pontius Pilate gave
Jesus the opportunity to face His accusers.
During that sham trial, Pontius
Pilate afforded more rights to Jesus
than the Democrats have afforded this president in this process.
-The articles before us
are based on very limited information.
They are based on hearsay, on news reports,
and on other unsupported allegations.
-When you see something that is not right, not just,
not fair, you have a moral obligation to say something,
to do something.
Our children and their children will ask us, "What did you do?"
-The impeachment serves two purposes.
Number one, stop the investigation by the U.
S.
Department of Justice and Ukraine
into the corruption of Ukraine interference into the U.
S.
election in 2016.
-I am deeply concerned that any member of the House
would spout Russian propaganda on the floor of the House.
I now yield one minute to the gentleman from New York, Mr.
Higgins.
-The gentleman from New York is recognized for --
The House will come to order.
The gentleman from New York is --
-Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Thank you.
-Russian propaganda -- -The House will come to order.
The House will come to order.
-What is at risk here is the very idea of America.
If you say, "The president may refuse to comply,
may refuse lawful process,
may coerce an ally, may cheat in an election
because he's the president of our party,"
you do not uphold our Constitution.
You do not uphold your oath of office.
Well, I will tell you this.
I will uphold mine.
I will vote to impeach Donald Trump.
I yield back.
-1,000 jobs -- workers in Mingo Junction, Ohio.
$750 million investment for 600 new jobs across this country.
"Detroit News" -- Chrysler -- 6,500 new jobs.
That's what this president is doing to deliver for those men
and women of this country who had been left behind.
It's about time somebody stands up for them,
and President Trump is.
-The yeas are 230.
The nays are 197.
Present is 1.
Article I is adopted.
The question is on adoption of Article II.
Article II is adopted.