Less than a year into President Trump’s administration, House Democrats were already voting on articles of impeachment.
At the time it was because they were unable to accept the results of the 2016 election. Now, after watching their party’s primary debates, they know the only way they can beat the President is if they impeach him. That is why we have voted on impeachment three times already and why more and more Democrats support impeachment with every new vote.
In December of 2017, there were 58 votes for impeachment but just over a month later there were 66 votes for impeachment. Then in May of this year, nearly 100 liberal lawmakers voted to impeach President Trump and this week, all but two Democrats supported continuing their impeachment investigation.
This impeachment obsession of Congressional Democrats comes with a steep cost borne by the American people. Their taxpayer funded U.S. House of Representatives remains more focused on politicking than delivering important policy achievements for Americans like securing our border, lowering energy prices, and reducing government waste. So far this year, House Democrats have authorized more subpoenas targeting the President’s administration than bills they have brought his desk. Under Speaker Pelosi’s broad impeachment mandate, Democrat leadership has hijacked congressional committees to further the scope of their partisan witch hunt.
On the House Ways and Means Committee, on which I proudly serve, we are tasked with some of the highest priorities in Congress. Issues such as easing the tax burden on American families, businesses, and farmers; lowering the cost of health care and prescription drugs; gaining critical market access for our farmers and producers; and finding ways to get people off the welfare rolls and into the workforce to grow our economy. Yet, the Democrats on our committee have chosen instead to vote nearly a dozen times to weaponize the IRS against Donald Trump. Their obsession with gaining access to his tax returns is wasting the taxpayers' precious time and limited resources.
Since Speaker Pelosi unilaterally announced her impeachment inquiry into the President, she has been running a soviet-style investigation that lacks any of the due process or constitutional protections that our judicial system is based on. During the investigation, Representative Adam Schiff, the Democrat Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, has denied over 300 Members of Congress, the White House, and the American People access to witnesses, deposition transcripts, and other internal documents. The only time that he has held a public hearing of these proceedings, he read a doctored transcript to purposely mislead the nation about President Trump’s actions. Further, he has refused to answer when he and his aides first heard from the so-called whistleblower and what information Schiff personally contributed to the official complaint.
I’ve consistently fought back against these attempts to overturn the results of the last election and expose the Left’s fear that they cannot beat our President in the upcoming elections. I voted to censure Adam Schiff for lying and misleading the American public and I have voted against every lousy liberal attempt to undermine our duly elected President. Again, this week, I voted against the latest attempt by the liberal majority in Washington to continue their impeachment proceedings against the President. While they are claiming the resolution they brought forward contains more transparency, it does nothing of the sort. Instead of empowering the American people, Nancy Pelosi has further emboldened Adam Schiff to assert additional control over all of the information and to shape the public narrative to achieve their predetermined verdict of impeachment.
Worst of all, while it is clear that no crime has been committed, Democrats are not any closer to ending this partisan charade. It’s only fitting that they voted to continue their witch hunt on Halloween.
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Excuse me, but this president you so highly support has caused more divisive rhetoric in this nation since the Civil War. As to one statement you erred in was easing the burden of taxes on Americans. Yep, did good on business, but deficit is now going to be a trillion dollars and it has cost the taxpayer over twice what it did to bail out farmers as it did for the auto industry and they paid it back with interest. Your/Trump tax plan and tariff game is cutting into the system like nothing else and we are still losing manufacturing jobs and nothing, repeat nothing, has been done with infrastructure as promised and it was your ball for two years. He has cost us a ton with his little game of golf at his resorts and stupid antics with Air Force aircraft needlessly going to some Podunk airport in Scotland that happens to coincide with one of his resorts. Republican is short or long for crook and deceitful.
Yawn...
He is right, 3:05. Democrats are like spoiled children throwing a three year fit.
4:02
You're right. It's really spoiled and childish to defend the US Constitution and to expect members of our government to actually honor their oaths of office. What was I thinking!
@4:02 PM: Both the Congressman and @3:05 PM are "right", the Left's ceaseless tantrum about Trump "has caused more divisive rhetoric in this nation since the Civil War". They started talking about impeachment in the spring of 2016 as soon as it became clear he might get the nomination, and keeping him from assuming office or removing him "by any means necessary" has occupied 90-100% of their attention starting election night.
Which is a problem in many ways, such as danger of the boy who cried wolf. See @3:05 PM mindlessly repeating the claim that "He has cost us a ton with his little game of golf at his resorts and stupid antics with Air Force aircraft needlessly going to some Podunk airport in Scotland that happens to coincide with one of his resorts." That arrangement was made in 2014, and as a western Scotland airport with a long military history including the RAF controlling trans-Atlantic flights during WWII, not "Podunk" when it handles 3/4 million civilian passengers per year, it's an obvious place for a stopover on very long but not time critical flights.
The Left make up so many "scandals" that turn out to be 100% false that if Trump were to do something truly bad we wouldn't give their screams a fair hearing. Which could indeed be very bad. But as long as people like @3:05 PM elevate nothingburgers like the stopover, or policy differences like his trade policies, into Constitutional "high crimes and misdemeanors", we have no choice but to generally ignore them to avoid falling into their pit of insanity. Plus we have real lives to live.
What part of the Constitution is being defended? What oath was broken?
Where was the outrage from Democrats when the VP Biden was making his son wealthy through political connections? Where was the outrage when the Clinton Foundation was paying foreign governments for information on political opponents? The hypocrisy coming from the left and right is nauseating. Reading imbecile's defending either side is enough to make anyone with a functioning brain want to vomit.
@7:45AM
Some readers of this blog don't have time to hold your hand nor to discuss your RWNJ talking points and memes.
You could return to your safe place or you could seek counseling from a cult deprogrammer.
If you can't see anything the Trump administration is doing wrong with respect to either foreign policy or ethics, or if you can't use the magic of the internet to find the information you apparently expect someone to waste their time to serve up to you, then you are beyond any help a few facts can provide. Besides, you would probably dismiss any factual response as "FAKE NEWS!" just like Donald Trump does.
10:35, understand your own point of view before commenting on others. Safe places are where lefties go to cry.
Furthermore, you can't answer simple questions, Sweetheart. It is always funny when one spews talking points and then accuses others of spewing talking points.
@10:35
Nothing wrong and impeachable offense are different. @7:45 asked several questions that you can't seem to answer. Not only could I use the magic of the internet but I used logic while reading the transcript of the questionable conversation involving the President and the Prime Minister of the Ukraine. Nowhere is there anything impeachable. Even if there was, it goes nowhere. He won't be impeached let alone removed from office and everyone knows it. So why do this? Simple. Influencing the 2020 election. The left have weaponized the legal system to use it against political foes.
Our government is dysfunctional.
The President: ...
I will say that we do a lot for Ukraine. We spend a lot of effort and a lot of time. Much more than the European countries are doing and they should be helping you more than they are. Germany does almost nothing for you. All they do is talk and I think it's something that you should really ask them about. When I was speaking to Angela Merkel she talks Ukraine, but she ·doesn't do anything. A lot of the European countries are the same way so I think it's something you want to look at but the United States has been very very good to Ukraine. I wouldn't say that it's reciprocal necessarily because things are happening that are not good but the United States has been very very good to Ukraine.
President Zelenskyy:
Yes you are absolutely right. Not only 100%, but actually 1000% and I can tell you the following; I did talk to Angela Merkel and I did meet with her I also met and talked with Macron and I told them that they are not doing quite as much as they need to be doing on the issues with the sanctions. They are not enforcing the sanctions. They are not working as much as they should work for Ukraine. It turns out that even though logically, the European Union should be our biggest partner but technically the United States is a much bigger partner than the European Union and I'm very grateful to you for that because the United States is doing quite a lot for Ukraine. Much more than the European Union especially when we are talking about sanctions against the Russian Federation. I would also like to thank you for your great support in the area of defense. We are ready to continue to cooperate for the next steps specifically we are almost ready to buy more Javelins from the United States for defense purposes.
The President:
I would like you to do us a favor though because our country has been through a lot and Ukraine knows a lot about it. I would like you to find out what happened with this whole situation with Ukraine, they say Crowdstrike... I guess you have one of your wealthy people... The server, they say Ukraine has it. There are a lot of things that went on, the whole situation. I think you're surrounding yourself with some of the same people. I would like to have the Attorney General call you or your people and I would like you to get to the bottom of it. As you saw yesterday, that whole nonsense ended with a very poor performance by a man named Robert Mueller, an incompetent performance, but they say a lot of it started with Ukraine. Whatever you can do, it's very important that you do it if that's possible.
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President Zelenskyy:
Yes it is very important for me and everything that you just mentioned earlier. For me as a President, it is very important and we are open for any future cooperation. We are ready to open a new page on cooperation in relations between the United States and Ukraine. For that purpose, I just recalled our ambassador from United States and he will be replaced by a very competent and very experienced ambassador who will work hard on making sure that our two nations are getting closer. I would also like and hope to see him having your trust and your confidence and have personal relations with you so we can cooperate even more so. I will personally tell you that one of my assistants spoke with Mr. Giuliani just recently and we are hoping very much that Mr. Giuliani will be able to travel to Ukraine and we will meet once he comes to Ukraine. I just wanted to assure you once again that you have nobody but friends around us. I will make sure that I surround myself with the best and most experienced people. I also wanted to tell you that we are friends. We are great friends and you Mr. President have friends in our country so we can continue our strategic partnership. I also plan to surround myself with great people and in addition to that investigation, I guarantee as the President of Ukraine that all the investigations will be done openly and candidly.. That I can assure you.
The President:
Good because I heard you had a prosecutor who was very good and he was shut down and that's really unfair. A lot of people are talking about that, the way they shut your very good prosecutor down and you had some very bad people involved. Mr. Giuliani is a highly respected man. He was the mayor of New York City, a great mayor, and I would like him to call you. I will ask him to call you along with the Attorney General. Rudy very much knows what's happening and he is a very capable guy. If you could speak to him that would be great. The former ambassador from the United States, the woman, was bad news and the people she was dealing with in the Ukraine were bad news so I just want to let you know that. The other thing, There's a lot of talk about Biden's son, that Biden stopped the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about that so whatever you can do with the Attorney General would be great. Biden went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution so if you can look into it... It sounds horrible to me.
What is your point? There is nothing there except what your biased mind wants there to be.
Read Biden's comments if you are looking for quid pro quo.
Keep on trumping chump!
Great comeback. When left with nothing else, call names.
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