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Impeachment in the Shadows

Floor Speech

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

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Mr. ADERHOLT. Madam Speaker, unfortunately, the Democrats continue to investigate the President in secret back rooms of the Capitol in the Intelligence Committee.

If the Speaker believes that the Members of Congress can ultimately vote and impeach the President based on bogus evidence that has never seen the light of day, then she is badly mistaken.

In the past 50 years, this body has held impeachment proceedings for only two Presidents: One was a Democrat; one was a Republican. Those were serious times when both parties came together to conduct solemn business required under the Constitution, a document that we as Members of Congress are sworn to uphold.

Conducting this impeachment process in the shadows is a mockery of the democratic process. It actually belittles our duty, and it belittles the votes of people who duly elected this President.

Madam Speaker, in closing, I call on Speaker Pelosi to sit down with the Republican leadership to establish an open and transparent process based on precedent.

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