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Follow Impeachment Precedent

Floor Speech

Date: Oct. 22, 2019
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Executive Branch Legislative Branch

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Mr. HILL of Arkansas. Madam Speaker, Article I, Section 2 of the Constitution reads the House of Representatives ``shall have the sole power of impeachment.''

This Speaker does not have that sole power. The full House of Representatives does.

Modern precedent clearly sets out a process for fair consideration of impeachment. It was followed by Democrats in the case of President Nixon and followed by Republicans in the case of President Clinton.

The Speaker has turned a blind eye and a deaf ear to fairness and precedent. Authoritarianism is now the rule of the people's House. A Star Chamber hidden away in the Capitol basement is the domain of authoritarianism.

Where is the due process? Where is the transparency? Abandoned.

Where is the ability to confront accusers? Where is the separation of prosecution and grand jury? Abandoned. Abandoned by our Speaker.

I call on the majority to put aside partisanship and pointless attacks and get back to work.

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