[000:00:01;735] USE THE 25TH AMENDMENT TO REMOVE
[000:00:04;037] PRESIDENT TRUMP FROM OFFICE FOR
[000:00:04;771] HIS ACTIONS DURING LAST WEEK'S
[000:00:06;806] ATTACK ON THE U.S. CAPITOL.
[000:00:09;376] AS MEMBERS WERE CONSIDERING THE
[000:00:10;410] RESOLUTION, VICE PRESIDENT PENCE
[000:00:12;712] INFORMED SPEAKER PELOSI AND A
[000:00:14;447] LETTER HE HAS NO INTENTION OF
[000:00:15;148] USING THE 25TH AMENDMENT AS
[000:00:17;484] REQUESTED.
[000:00:18;485] IT IS ONE OF SEVERAL MEASURES
[000:00:20;520] THE HOUSE IS CONSIDERING THIS
[000:00:21;521] WEEK IN RESPONSE TO THE DEADLY
[000:00:23;957] RIOT ON CAPITOL HILL.
[000:00:26;559] MORROW, THE HOUSE TAKES UP A
[000:00:28;895] RESOLUTION TO IMPEACH THE
[000:00:29;829] PRESIDENT FOR INCITING AN
[000:00:30;630] INSURRECTION AGAINST THE U.S.
[000:00:32;665] GOVERNMENT.
[000:00:33;666] IF PASSED, IT WOULD MAKE DONALD
[000:00:34;401] TRUMP THE FIRST U.S. PRESIDENT
[000:00:35;335] TO BE IMPEACHED TWICE.
[000:00:37;737] YOU CAN FOLLOW THE HOUSE WHEN IT
[000:00:39;739] RETURNS AND :00 A.M. EASTERN
[000:00:41;074] HERE ON C-SPAN.
[000:00:43;843] UP NEXT, WE WILL SHOW YOU THE
[000:00:45;078] FLOOR DEBATE FROM EARLIER THIS
[000:00:45;879] EVENING ON THE 25TH AMENDMENT
[000:00:48;214] STARTING WITH MARYLAND
[000:00:52;352] REPRESENTATIVE JAMIE RASKIN WHO
[000:00:53;086] INTRODUCED THE RESOLUTION.
[000:00:54;020] >> WE HAVE EXPERIENCED TRAUMA OF
[000:00:57;524] A VIOLENT ATTACK ON THIS HOUSE
[000:00:59;659] OF REPRESENTATIVES ON THIS
[000:01:03;163] CHAMBER, AND ON ALL OF THE
[000:01:03;797] PEOPLE WHO WORK HERE.
[000:01:07;233] AN ARMED, LAWLESS AND ENRAGED
[000:01:08;234] MOB SMASHED WINDOWS, BEAT UP AND
[000:01:12;305] CRASHED -- AND CRUSHED CAPITOL
[000:01:13;940] HILL POLICE OFFICERS WHO CRIED
[000:01:15;375] OUT IN AGONY, OVERCAME AND
[000:01:17;944] SUBDUED LAW ENFORCEMENT, KILLED
[000:01:18;978] OR CAUSED THE DEATHS OF AT LEAST
[000:01:22;782] FIVE AMERICAN CITIZENS INCLUDING
[000:01:25;718] A HEROIC CAPITOL HILL POLICE
[000:01:27;520] OFFICER AND FOUR OTHER
[000:01:27;520] .
[000:01:30;857] SERIOUS INJURIES ON DOZENS OF
[000:01:32;859] POLICE OFFICERS AN OTHER PEOPLE
[000:01:33;893] INCLUDING 15 OFFICERS WHO HAD TO
[000:01:36;096] BE HOSPITALIZED.
[000:01:38;932] CHANTING "STOP THE STEAL" AND
[000:01:41;067] "HANG MIKE PENCE" THEY
[000:01:43;069] THREATENED THE LIVES AND SAFETY
[000:01:44;270] OF THE THREE INDIVIDUALS IN
[000:01:45;472] LINE OF SUCCESSION TO THE
[000:01:46;439] PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
[000:01:48;208] THEY BUILT A GALLOWS RIGHT
[000:01:50;276] OUTSIDE THE CAPITOL.
[000:01:52;278] THEY SCREAMED "WHERE'S NANCY,"
[000:01:55;381] THEY STORMED THE SPEAKER'S
[000:01:56;616] OFFICE AND OCCUPIED IT, STOLE
[000:01:58;651] GOVERNMENT PROPERTY, THEY
[000:02:00;520] TRASHED THE PLACE.
[000:02:01;020] THEY TERRORIZED OFFICERS, STAFF,
[000:02:02;655] AND MEMBER THEY BRANDISHED THE
[000:02:06;693] CONFEDERATE BATTLE FLAG IN THE
[000:02:07;727] CAPITOL OF THE UNITED STATES,
[000:02:08;962] SOMETHING THAT DIDN'T EVEN
[000:02:10;730] HAPPEN IN THE CIVIL WAR.
[000:02:11;764] THEY ALLOWED HUNDRED OR
[000:02:13;833] THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE TO ENTER THE
[000:02:15;835] CAPITOL WITHOUT METAL DETECTORS
[000:02:17;103] OR ANY KIND OF SECURITY
[000:02:18;905] SCREENING AT ALL.
[000:02:19;906] NOT ONLY TO DESECRATE THE TEMPLE
[000:02:22;909] OF DEMOCRACY AND SPIT IN THE
[000:02:24;110] FACE OF CONGRESS BUT ACTUALLY TO
[000:02:26;946] INTERFERE WITH THE COUNTING OF
[000:02:28;181] ELECTORAL COLLEGE VOTES IN THE
[000:02:30;183] 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
[000:02:32;118] THEY MAY HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR
[000:02:34;354] VICE PRESIDENT PENCE AND SPEAKER
[000:02:36;256] PELOSI BUT EVERY PERSON IN THIS
[000:02:38;224] ROOM COULD HAVE DIED.
[000:02:39;325] AS A SHAKEN SENATOR LINDSEY
[000:02:41;494] GRAHAM SAID, THE MOB COULD HAVE
[000:02:42;629] BLOWN THE BUILDING UP, THEY
[000:02:44;364] COULD HAVE KILLED US ALL.
[000:02:47;267] MR. SPEAKER, WHETHER OR NOT YOU
[000:02:49;302] BELIEVE THE PRESIDENT'S COURSE
[000:02:50;670] OF CONDUCT IN ENCOURAGING,
[000:02:53;473] BUILD, SULL MONOING, ASSEMBLING,
[000:02:55;675] AND INFLAMING THE MOB, LIGHTING
[000:02:58;745] THE FLAME, AS CONGRESSWOMAN LIZ
[000:03:00;713] CHANEY PUT IT IN A VERY POWERFUL
[000:03:03;816] AND COGENT STATEMENT THIS
[000:03:05;718] EVENING, WHETHER YOU BELIEVE
[000:03:06;719] THAT WAS A HIGH CRIME AND
[000:03:08;721] MISDEMEANOR, AN OFFENSE AGAINST
[000:03:09;455] THE REPUBLIC, THAT'S THE
[000:03:10;723] QUESTION FOR ANOTHER TIME AND TO
[000:03:12;792] PUT MY CARDS ON THE TABLE, I
[000:03:13;993] THINK IT WAS A CRIME AGAINST THE
[000:03:16;796] REPUBLIC.
[000:03:17;163] BUT LEAVING THAT ASIDE, I THINK
[000:03:18;031] EVERY MEMBER IN THIS BODY SHOULD
[000:03:19;933] BE ABLE TO AGREE THAT THIS
[000:03:22;902] PRESIDENT IS NOT MEETING THE
[000:03:24;103] MOST MINIMAL DUTIES OF OFFICE.
[000:03:26;940] HE IS NOT MEETING THE OATH HE
[000:03:29;108] SWORE TO UPHOLD AND DEFEND THE
[000:03:31;277] CONSTITUTION.
[000:03:33;046] AGAINST ALL ENEMIES FOREIGN AND
[000:03:34;247] DOMESTIC.
[000:03:36;049] HE IS NOT PROTECTING AND
[000:03:39;219] DEFENDING THE DEMOCRACY ITSELF,
[000:03:40;453] THE PROCESS OF ELECTING THE
[000:03:43;289] PRESIDENT.
[000:03:44;257] HE IS NOT RESPECTING THE
[000:03:45;592] PEACEFUL TRANSFER OF POWER.
[000:03:46;459] HE IS NOT TAKING CARE THAT THE
[000:03:48;461] LAWS ARE FAITHFULLY EXECUTED.
[000:03:50;530] HE IS NOT PROTECTING THE
[000:03:51;731] REPUBLIC AGAINST MOB
[000:03:54;434] INSURRECTION, INVASION AND
[000:03:56;536] HOSTILITY.
[000:03:56;903] HE'S NOT PROTECTING THE
[000:03:58;805] REPUBLICAN FORM OF GOVERNMENT TO
[000:04:00;607] THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES
[000:04:02;875] WHEN HE ALLOW THIS IS TO HAPPEN.
[000:04:05;612] THIS RESOLUTION IS SIMPLY ASKING
[000:04:07;614] VICE PRESIDENT PENCE TO EXERCISE
[000:04:09;682] HIS POWERS UNDER ARTICLE 25 --
[000:04:10;950] THE 25TH AMENDMENT, I GRANT
[000:04:13;920] MYSELF 30 SECONDS MORE.
[000:04:15;822] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE
[000:04:16;522] GENTLEMAN IS GRANTED 30
[000:04:17;123] ADDITIONAL SECONDS.
[000:04:18;891] MR. RASKIN: WE ARE SIMPLY ASKING
[000:04:20;927] VICE PRESIDENT PENCE TO EXERCISE
[000:04:22;962] HIS POWER UNDER THE 25TH
[000:04:23;963] AMENDMENT OF THE CONSTITUTION,
[000:04:26;266] SECTION 4, TO CONVENE THE
[000:04:28;268] CABINET AND TO MOBILIZE THE
[000:04:31;104] CABINET TO STATE AND ARTICULATE
[000:04:34;407] WHAT IS OBVIOUS TO THE AMERICAN
[000:04:35;575] PEOPLE THIS PRESIDENT IS NOT
[000:04:37;176] MEETING THE DUTIES OF OFFICE AND
[000:04:38;211] IS CLEARLY NOT CAPABLE OF IT.
[000:04:40;280] AND TO TRANSFER THE POWERS TO
[000:04:42;248] THE VICE PRESIDENT UNDER THE
[000:04:43;650] 25TH AMENDMENT.
[000:04:46;286] WITH THATTERING I YIELD NOW FOR
[000:04:49;422] ONE MINUTE -- I RESERVE THE
[000:04:53;393] BALANCE OF MY TIME.
[000:04:54;394] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE
[000:04:55;094] GENTLEMAN RESERVES.
[000:04:59;532] THE GENTLEMAN FROM OHIO IS
[000:05:01;534] RECOGNIZED.
[000:05:01;934] MR. JORDAN: I YIELD TO THE
[000:05:04;637] GENTLEMAN FROM CALIFORNIA, MR.
[000:05:06;572] MCCLINTOCK, FOR 2 1/2 MINUTES.
[000:05:07;707] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE
[000:05:08;641] GENTLEMAN IS RECOGNIZED FOR TWO
[000:05:09;976] AND A HALF MINUTES.
[000:05:11;744] MR. MCCLINTOCK: WHAT A SAD AND
[000:05:13;713] OMINOUS WAY TO BEGIN THE 117TH
[000:05:15;748] CONGRESS.
[000:05:16;649] HASN'T THIS BODY DONE ENOUGH IN
[000:05:18;818] THE LAST SESSION TO DIVIDE OUR
[000:05:19;852] COUNTRY AND ABUSE OUR
[000:05:21;788] CONSTITUTION WITHOUT CARRYING
[000:05:22;955] THAT DAMAGE INTO THE NEW
[000:05:24;791] SESSION?
[000:05:25;124] THE 25TH AMENDMENT SPECIFICALLY
[000:05:28;761] ADDRESSES THE INCAPACITY OF THE
[000:05:30;763] PRESIDENT TO DISCHARGE THE
[000:05:31;998] DUTIES OF HIS OFFICE.
[000:05:33;766] IT WAS NEVER INTENDED AS A
[000:05:36;903] POLITICAL WEAPON WHEN CONGRESS
[000:05:37;904] DOESN'T LIKE THE WAY HE
[000:05:39;906] DISCHARGES THOSE DUTIES.
[000:05:41;874] I'VE READ THIS SPEECH.
[000:05:43;910] HE NEVER SUGGESTED RAMPAGING THE
[000:05:46;145] CAPITOL AND DISRUPTING THE
[000:05:47;280] CONGRESS.
[000:05:47;947] HE URGED THEM TO, AND THIS IS AN
[000:05:50;950] EXACT QUOTE, PEACEFULLY AND
[000:05:54;053] PATRIOTCALLY MAKE THEIR VOICES
[000:05:55;288] HEARD.
[000:05:58;124] MANY OF US REPUBLICANS JOINED A
[000:06:01;194] BIPARTISAN VOTE TO RESPECT THE
[000:06:03;196] ELECTORAL COLLEGE VOTES DESPITE
[000:06:04;364] OUR SUSPICIONS AND OUR
[000:06:06;299] MISGIVINGS AND OUR DESIRES.
[000:06:09;302] WE DID THIS BECAUSE THE
[000:06:11;571] CONSTITUTION COMMANDED IT AND
[000:06:14;407] OUR INSTITUTIONS DEPEND ON IT.
[000:06:17;443] TODAY THOSE SAME PRINCIPLES
[000:06:19;479] SHOULD COMPEL A BIPARTISAN VOTE
[000:06:21;481] TO OPPOSE THIS GROTESQUE ABUSE
[000:06:23;783] OF THE 25TH AMENDMENT.
[000:06:26;552] LAST WEEK, THE MAJORITY ARGUED
[000:06:28;788] THAT THE PRESIDENT TRIED TO
[000:06:30;790] MISUSE THE CONSTITUTION TO
[000:06:32;725] OVERTURN THE VOTES OF THE
[000:06:33;926] ELECTORAL COLLEGE.
[000:06:35;762] HE ASSERTED NO DIRECT POWER,
[000:06:37;764] RATHER, HE URGED THE VICE
[000:06:39;065] PRESIDENT AND CONGRESS TO DO SO.
[000:06:43;870] MANY OF US DECLINED HIS BAD
[000:06:46;038] ADVICE.
[000:06:46;906] YET THIS WEEK THE MAJORITY
[000:06:48;141] DIRECTLY IS ASSERTING POWER TO
[000:06:50;109] MISUSE THE 25TH AMENDMENT IN A
[000:06:51;944] MANNER THAT DOES OVERTURN THE
[000:06:53;146] VOTES OF THE PREVIOUS ELECTORAL
[000:06:54;981] COLLEGE.
[000:06:57;049] DON'T THEY SEE THAT THEY ARE
[000:07:00;119] COMMITTING DIRECTLY THE SAME
[000:07:02;255] OFFENSE THEY ACCUSE THE
[000:07:03;222] PRESIDENT OF COMMITTING
[000:07:04;323] INDIRECTLY.
[000:07:08;194] EVERY ACT WE TAKE BUILDS A
[000:07:11;230] PRECEDENT FOR FUTURE ACTS.
[000:07:13;266] ONCE CONGRESS ASSERT THIS IS NEW
[000:07:15;468] ROLE AS ARM CHIRE PSYCHIATRISTS
[000:07:17;570] AND A NEW POWER TO EQUATE
[000:07:21;407] INTEMPERATE SPEECH WITH
[000:07:24;477] FUNCTIONAL DISABILITY, THE MOST
[000:07:26;646] IMPORTANT PILLARS OF OUR
[000:07:28;614] GOVERNMENT, STABILITY, THE RULE
[000:07:29;715] OF LAW, AND THE SEPARATION OF
[000:07:31;684] POWERS WILL FRACTURE.
[000:07:33;719] IT WON'T AFFECT THIS PRESIDENT.
[000:07:35;955] BUT IT WILL STOP FUTURE
[000:07:38;724] PRESIDENTS FROM THIS DAY
[000:07:39;826] FORWARD.
[000:07:40;159] FOR THEIR SAKE, PLEASE DON'T DO
[000:07:42;128] THIS.
[000:07:42;762] I YIELD BACK.
[000:07:47;967] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: DOES
[000:07:48;668] THE GENTLEMAN RESERVE?
[000:07:50;970] THE GENTLEMAN FROM MARYLAND IS
[000:07:53;072] RECOGNIZED.
[000:07:53;473] MR. RASKIN: I YIELD ONE MINUTE
[000:07:55;107] TO SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI.
[000:07:56;342] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE
[000:07:57;243] SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE, MS. PELOSI
[000:07:59;178] OF CALIFORNIA SMBING RECOGNIZED.
[000:08:00;480] THE SPEAKER: THANK YOU VERY
[000:08:01;247] MUCH, MR. SPEAKER.
[000:08:02;181] I THANK THE GENTLEMAN FOR
[000:08:03;182] YIELDING AND APPLAUD HIM AND
[000:08:04;484] SALUTE HIM AS A CONSTITUTIONAL
[000:08:08;321] SCHOLAR, AN INTELLECTUAL
[000:08:10;389] RESOURCE, AND THE FORCE OF
[000:08:12;492] JUSTICE HE HAS BEEN AS HE
[000:08:16;529] ADVANCED THIS RESOLUTION.
[000:08:17;163] I THANK THE ENTIRE HOUSE, THE
[000:08:18;731] DEMOCRATIC CAUCUS FOR LOVE OF
[000:08:20;600] COUNTRY, DETERMINATION TO
[000:08:21;634] PROTECT OUR DEMOCRACY AND
[000:08:22;869] LOYALTY TO OUR OATH THAT HAS
[000:08:24;871] BEEN SO BEAUTIFULLY MANIFESTED
[000:08:26;706] IN THIS DARK PAST WEEK.
[000:08:30;743] MR. SPEAKER, A DARK WEEK IT HAS
[000:08:32;879] BEEN INDEED.
[000:08:33;813] ON WEDNESDAY, THE PRESIDENT OF
[000:08:36;082] THE UNITED STATES INCITED A
[000:08:39;986] DEADLY INSURRECTION AGAINST
[000:08:41;020] AMERICA THAT TARGETED THE VERY
[000:08:43;155] HEART OF OUR DEMOCRACY THIS
[000:08:45;091] TEMPLE OF DEMOCRACY, THE UNITED
[000:08:47;260] STATES CAPITOL.
[000:08:50;229] DEFILING THE GENIUS OF THE
[000:08:52;231] CONSTITUTION, SEPARATE BUT
[000:08:53;299] EQUAL, ATTACKING THE FIRST
[000:08:54;567] BRANCH OF GOVERNMENT.
[000:08:58;271] TRYING TO PREVENT US FROM
[000:09:00;339] ASCERTAINING OUR CONSTITUTIONAL
[000:09:02;308] DUTY TO ASCERTAIN THAT JOE BIDEN
[000:09:05;478] AND KAMALA HARRIS WILL BE
[000:09:07;547] PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT OF
[000:09:09;482] THE UNITED STATES.
[000:09:11;450] THE GLEEFUL DESECRATION THEY
[000:09:13;619] HAVE -- GLEEFUL DESECRATION OF
[000:09:16;656] THE CAPITOL AND VIOLENCE AGAINST
[000:09:17;857] THE CONGRESS, OUR STAFF, AND OUR
[000:09:19;692] WORKERS ARE HORRORS THAT WILL
[000:09:20;860] FOREVER STAIN OUR NATION'S
[000:09:22;762] HISTORY.
[000:09:23;596] FIVE AMERICANS HAVE DIED
[000:09:26;699] FOLLOWING THE VIOLENT ATTACK.
[000:09:27;733] MORE THAN 50 POLICE OFFICERS
[000:09:28;734] WERE SERIOUSLY INJURED INCLUDING
[000:09:30;903] 15 OFFICERS WHO WERE
[000:09:32;805] HOSPITALIZED.
[000:09:33;806] ON BEHALF OF THE HOUSE, I SALUTE
[000:09:37;009] AND EXPRESS DEEPESTEST GRATITUDE
[000:09:39;979] TO THE U.S. CAPITOL POLICE FOR
[000:09:41;080] THE VALOR THEY SHOWED IN
[000:09:42;181] PROTECTING THE LIVES OF MEMBERS,
[000:09:46;052] ESPECIALLY PROTECTING OUR STAFF
[000:09:48;154] AND THOSE WHO MAKE CONGRESS
[000:09:49;488] FUNCTION.
[000:09:55;361] MR. SPEAKER, THIS IS A SAD DAY
[000:09:57;463] FOR OUR COUNTRY, THAT WE HAVE TO
[000:10:00;399] COME TO THE FLOOR IN A WAY TO
[000:10:02;468] DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION OF THE
[000:10:05;404] UNITED STATES AT THIS TIME.
[000:10:06;405] THE FACTS ARE VERY CLEAR.
[000:10:10;443] THE PRESIDENT CALLED FOR THIS
[000:10:13;479] SEDITIOUS ATTACK.
[000:10:13;980] FOR DAYS HE URGED SUPPORTERS TO
[000:10:16;582] COME TO WASHINGTON FOR THE
[000:10:17;717] INSURRECTION.
[000:10:19;585] WEDNESDAY MORNING HE
[000:10:20;586] PARTICIPATED IN A RALLY TO
[000:10:22;622] ENCOURAGE THE RIOTERS TO MARCH
[000:10:24;657] ON THE CAPITOL AND FIGHT.
[000:10:26;692] AND NOT ONLY DID HE URGE PEOPLE
[000:10:28;894] TO MARCH ON THE CAPITOL AND
[000:10:31;731] FIGHT, HE FURTHER FANNED THE
[000:10:32;732] FLAMES AND HE AND HIS FAMILY
[000:10:35;868] CHEERED AND CELEBRATED THE
[000:10:37;837] DESECRATION OF THE CAPITOL.
[000:10:39;905] LATER THAT DAY AS THE DANGERS
[000:10:42;108] ESCALATED, HE IGNORE AND FLAT
[000:10:44;076] OUT REJECTED THE PLEAS OF
[000:10:46;145] CONGRESS, INCLUDING THOSE OF HIS
[000:10:48;114] OWN PARTY, TO CALL OFF HIS
[000:10:51;150] SUPPORTERS, THE RIOTERS, THE
[000:10:55;187] TERRORISTS, AS THEY ENGAGED IN
[000:10:57;223] VANDALISM AND VIOLENCE.
[000:10:59;225] LATER THAT -- AND NOW THE
[000:11:01;260] PRESIDENT IS SAYING THAT HE IS
[000:11:03;262] NOT RESPONSIBLE AND THAT HIS
[000:11:06;298] INCITEMENT TO VIOLENCE WAS
[000:11:08;334] TOTALLY APPROPRIATE.
[000:11:09;335] THE PRESIDENT'S ACTIONS
[000:11:11;737] DEMONSTRATE HIS ABSOLUTE
[000:11:14;540] INABILITY TO DISCHARGE THE MOST
[000:11:17;710] BASIC AND FUNDAMENTAL DUTIES OF
[000:11:19;779] HIS OFFICE, THEREFORE THE
[000:11:20;880] PRESIDENT MUST BE REMOVED FROM
[000:11:22;048] OFFICE IMMEDIATELY.
[000:11:22;882] THIS IS A DECISION WE MAKE WITH
[000:11:25;751] THE UTMOST SOLEMNNYITY AND
[000:11:28;821] PRAYERFULNESS WHICH THIS CRISIS
[000:11:30;823] REQUIRES.
[000:11:31;190] REMOVAL OF THE PRESIDENT IS AN
[000:11:32;858] UNPRECEDENTED ACTION BUT IT IS
[000:11:34;894] REQUIRED BECAUSE HE IS AN --
[000:11:37;029] BECAUSE IT IS AN UNPRECEDENTED
[000:11:39;231] MOMENT IN HISTORY BECAUSE OF THE
[000:11:40;266] DANGER HE POSES.
[000:11:41;133] I HEARD THE PREVIOUS SPEAKER SAY
[000:11:44;136] THAT WE ARE OBJECTING TO THE
[000:11:47;139] PRESIDENT BECAUSE WE DON'T LIKE
[000:11:48;140] THE WAY HE EXECUTES THE DUTIES.
[000:11:52;244] WE DON'T LIKE IT AT ALL.
[000:11:55;314] INCITEMENT TO INSURRECTION.
[000:11:57;416] TREASONOUS ACTIVITY.
[000:11:58;584] AND IF YOU ARE ASSOCIATING
[000:12:01;487] YOURSELF WITH THAT AS THE PROPER
[000:12:04;523] EXECUTION OF THE PRESIDENT'S
[000:12:05;524] DUTIES, YOU ARE ASSOCIATING
[000:12:06;726] YOURSELF WITH SEDITION AND
[000:12:09;562] TREASON.
[000:12:11;630] YESTERDAY, IN A PRO FORMA
[000:12:14;667] SESSION, WE INTRODUCED A
[000:12:16;702] UNANIMOUS CONSENT REQUEST TO
[000:12:17;703] TAKE UP CONGRESSMAN RASKIN'S
[000:12:19;705] LEGISLATION WHICH CALLS ON THE
[000:12:20;740] VICE PRESIDENT TO MOBILIZE THE
[000:12:21;741] CABINET TO ACTIVATE THE 25TH
[000:12:23;776] AMENDMENT TO REMOVE THE
[000:12:24;844] PRESIDENT FROM OFFICE.
[000:12:26;812] AGAIN, TO PREVENT HIM FROM CAUSE
[000:12:28;180] MANAGER DAMAGE TO OUR COUNTRY.
[000:12:29;882] WHO KNOWS WHAT HE MIGHT DO NEXT.
[000:12:32;885] HOUSE REPUBLICANS REJECTED THIS
[000:12:34;954] LEGISLATION.
[000:12:35;921] AND SO THE PRESIDENT'S UNHINGED,
[000:12:38;991] UNSTABLE, DERANGED ACTS OF
[000:12:42;027] SEDITION MAY CONTINUE,
[000:12:43;195] ENDANGERING AMERICA AND
[000:12:45;064] UNDERMINING OUR DEMOCRACY.
[000:12:46;065] NOW WE ARE TAKING UP THIS
[000:12:49;168] LEGISLATION IN REGULAR SESSION.
[000:12:50;336] AFTER PASSAGE WE ARE CALLING ON
[000:12:52;404] THE VICE PRESIDENT TO RESPOND
[000:12:54;373] WITHIN 24 HOURS OF PASSAGE.
[000:12:57;409] THIS RESOLUTION GIVES A CLEAR
[000:12:59;545] CHOICE TO HONOR THE OATH OF
[000:13:03;415] OFFICE, TO DEFEND OUR DEMOCRACY
[000:13:04;416] AND UPHOLD THE SACRED TRUST
[000:13:07;586] GIVEN TO US BY THE CONSTITUTION
[000:13:08;687] AND BY THOSE WHOM WE REPRESENT.
[000:13:13;592] MR. SPEAKER, DURING THE
[000:13:14;527] PRESIDENT TRUMP PRESIDENCY,
[000:13:15;728] THESE FOUR YEARS, AND ESPECIALLY
[000:13:17;696] DURING THIS SAD TIME, I RECALL
[000:13:19;732] THE WORDS OF THE GREAT ISRAELI
[000:13:24;703] POWER, HE SAID WHEN HE SAID, I
[000:13:28;674] CAN'T KEEP SILENCE IN LIGHT OF
[000:13:29;842] HOW MY COUNTRY HAS CHANGED.
[000:13:34;814] WENT QUIT TRYING TO REMIND HER
[000:13:36;949] IN HER EARS, I'LL SING MY PRIDE
[000:13:39;785] UNTIL SHE OPENS HER EYES.
[000:13:42;855] I CAN'T KEEP SILENT OF HOW MY
[000:13:47;960] COUNTRY HAS CHANGED.
[000:13:49;962] I URGE MY REPUBLICAN COLLEAGUES
[000:13:51;163] TO OPEN THEIR EYES AND TO
[000:13:53;032] FINALLY HOLD THIS PRESIDENT
[000:13:55;067] ACCOUNTABLE.
[000:13:55;467] THE SECURITY OF OUR COUNTRY AND
[000:13:56;335] THE FUTURE OF OUR VERY DEMOCRACY
[000:13:58;370] ARE AT STAKE.
[000:14:04;310] WHEN WE PRAY GOD BLESS AMERICA,
[000:14:05;511] LET US HOPE THAT BLESSING COMES
[000:14:08;347] DOWN STRONGLY ON US THE NEXT FEW
[000:14:09;548] DAYS.
[000:14:10;416] WITH THAT, MR. SPEAKER, I YIELD
[000:14:11;750] BACK THE BALANCE OF MY TIME AND
[000:14:13;485] AGAIN APPLAUD THE GREAT
[000:14:15;454] LEADERSHIP OF MR. RASKIN.
[000:14:16;455] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE:
[000:14:18;691] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE
[000:14:19;725] SPEAKER YIELDS BACK.
[000:14:20;693] DOES THE GENTLEMAN FROM
[000:14:21;293] MARYLAND RESERVE?
[000:14:21;894] MR. RASKIN: I RESERVE, YES.
[000:14:22;828] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE
[000:14:23;529] GENTLEMAN FROM OHIO IS
[000:14:24;129] RECOGNIZED.
[000:14:24;530] MR. JORDAN: MR. SPEAKER, I
[000:14:25;231] YIELD TWO MINUTES TO THE
[000:14:25;898] GENTLEMAN FROM VIRGINIA, MR.
[000:14:26;599] CLINE.
[000:14:26;899] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE
[000:14:27;600] GENTLEMAN IS RECOGNIZED FOR TWO
[000:14:28;834] MINUTES.
[000:14:29;735] MR. CLINE: THANK YOU, MR.
[000:14:30;836] SPEAKER.
[000:14:31;170] I RISE TODAY IN OPPOSITION TO
[000:14:32;771] HOUSE RESOLUTION 21, CALLING ON
[000:14:33;939] VICE PRESIDENT PENCE TO INVOKE
[000:14:35;908] SECTION 4 OF THE 25TH
[000:14:36;909] AMENDMENT.
[000:14:37;877] LIKE ALL OF US, I CONDEMN IN
[000:14:39;144] THE STRONGEST POSSIBLE TERMENTS
[000:14:40;913] THE VIOLENCE THAT OWE -- TERMS
[000:14:42;081] THE VIOLENCE THAT OCCURRED HERE
[000:14:43;249] IN OUR NATION'S CAPITOL LAST
[000:14:44;917] WEEK.
[000:14:45;951] POLITICAL VIOLENCE IS NEVER THE
[000:14:47;052] ANSWER, REGARDLESS OF WHICH
[000:14:48;354] SIDE OF THE POLITICAL SPECTRUM
[000:14:50;022] IT OCCURS.
[000:14:51;123] AND THAT'S A STRONGLY HELD
[000:14:52;124] POSITION ON WHICH I'VE BEEN
[000:14:53;993] CLEAR SINCE WELL BEFORE MY TIME
[000:14:54;994] IN CONGRESS.
[000:14:56;195] LET'S BE CLEAR ABOUT A FEW
[000:14:57;062] THINGS.
[000:14:57;396] THE ADOPTION OF THIS POLITICAL
[000:15:00;232] RESOLUTION WOULD BE DIVISIVE
[000:15:01;233] RATHER THAN UNIFYING.
[000:15:02;234] THE VICE PRESIDENT HAS SAID HE
[000:15:04;069] HAS NO INTENTION OF TAKING
[000:15:06;138] ACTION UNDER THE AMENDMENT.
[000:15:07;306] SO THIS PROCESS IS PURE
[000:15:09;241] POLITICAL THEATER ON THE PART
[000:15:10;409] OF THE MAJORITY.
[000:15:12;278] IN ADDITION, NO DUE PROCESS HAS
[000:15:13;512] BEEN PROVIDED.
[000:15:15;281] AS A FORM PROSECUTOR OF LAW
[000:15:16;682] ENFORCEMENT --, IF LAW
[000:15:18;384] ENFORCEMENT BROUGHT EVIDENCE OF
[000:15:19;118] A CRIME TO ME AND SAID, TAKE
[000:15:21;320] THIS TO THE JURY TOMORROW,
[000:15:23;455] THERE WOULD BE NO TIME FOR THE
[000:15:25;291] DEFENDANT TO PREPARE A DEFENSE,
[000:15:26;425] I WOULD BE VIOLATING RULES AND
[000:15:27;459] PROCEDURE.
[000:15:27;826] IN THE MORE THAN 50 YEARS SINCE
[000:15:29;461] THE 25TH AMENDMENT WAS
[000:15:31;363] RATIFIED, SECTION 4 HAS NEVER
[000:15:32;564] BEEN INVOKED.
[000:15:33;532] AS SUCH, THERE ARE NO JUDICIAL
[000:15:35;634] OR AUTHORITATIVE OPINIONS THAT
[000:15:37;469] WOULD EVALUATE ITS
[000:15:38;704] IMPLEMENTATION AND ABSENT THIS
[000:15:39;738] WE MUST LOOK TO THE LEGISLATIVE
[000:15:41;473] INTENT OF THE CONGRESS THAT
[000:15:42;708] PASSED ITS LANGUAGE AND NOWHERE
[000:15:44;476] IN THE LEGISLATIVE INTENT IS
[000:15:45;511] THE CURRENT SITUATION
[000:15:46;545] ENVISIONED.
[000:15:46;946] IT'S MEANT TO BE USED FOR
[000:15:48;547] INCAPACITY, NOT FOR POLITICAL
[000:15:49;548] ENDS WITH EIGHT DAYS REMAINING
[000:15:50;716] IN A PRESIDENT'S TERM.
[000:15:52;651] LAST WEEK VICE PRESIDENT PENCE
[000:15:54;019] WAS LAUDED BY THE MAJORITY FOR
[000:15:55;587] NOT YIELDING TO PRESSURE TO
[000:15:56;789] EXERT POWER BEYOND HIS
[000:15:58;557] CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY TO
[000:15:59;224] DETERMINE THE OUTCOME OF THE
[000:16:00;592] ELECTION.
[000:16:00;960] YET THE MAJORITY TODAY IS
[000:16:01;894] ATTEMPTING TO PRESSURE HIM TO
[000:16:03;629] EXERT POWER BEYOND THE
[000:16:04;897] INTENTION OF HIS CONSTITUTIONAL
[000:16:06;598] ROLE IN SECTION 4 OF THE 25TH
[000:16:07;666] AMENDMENT.
[000:16:08;567] THIS ACTION WILL ONLY FURTHER
[000:16:09;601] FUEL THE POLITICAL DIVIDE AMONG
[000:16:11;003] OUR CITIZENS AND WILL BE
[000:16:12;638] DETRIMENTAL TO THE LONG-TERM
[000:16:14;640] EFFORTS TO UNIFY OUR COUNTRY.
[000:16:15;874] MR. SPEAKER, BOTH PRESIDENT
[000:16:16;909] TRUMP AND PRESIDENT-ELECT BIDEN
[000:16:18;110] HAVE CALLED FOR A PEACEFUL
[000:16:19;745] TRANSITION OF POWER.
[000:16:21;747] I WOULD ENCOURAGE MEMBERS OF
[000:16:22;448] BOTH PARTIES TO WORK TOWARD
[000:16:23;782] THIS END AND VOTE AGAINST THIS
[000:16:24;917] RUSHED, MISGUIDED POLITICALLY
[000:16:26;852] MOTIVATED RESOLUTION.
[000:16:27;419] I YIELD BACK.
[000:16:29;888] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE
[000:16:30;589] GENTLEMAN YIELDS BACK THE
[000:16:31;223] BALANCE OF HIS TIME.
[000:16:31;757] MR. JORDAN: I RESERVE.
[000:16:32;324] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE
[000:16:33;025] GENTLEMAN RESERVES THE BALANCE
[000:16:33;759] OF HIS TIME.
[000:16:34;893] THE GENTLEMAN FROM MARYLAND.
[000:16:36;028] MR. RASKIN: I NOW YIELD ONE
[000:16:38;063] MINUTE TO MS. LOFGREN.
[000:16:39;031] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE
[000:16:39;965] GENTLELADY FROM CALIFORNIA, MS.
[000:16:40;966] LOFGREN, THE CHAIRMAN OF THE
[000:16:42;167] HOUSE ADMINISTRATION COMMITTEE,
[000:16:43;335] IS RECOGNIZED.
[000:16:44;903] MS. LOFGREN: MR. SPEAKER, LAST
[000:16:46;939] WEEK, AS WE COUNTED ELECTORAL
[000:16:48;273] COLLEGE VOTES, I SAID, THIS DAY
[000:16:51;010] MARKS A CROSSROAD FOR OUR
[000:16:54;013] AMERICAN -- CROSSROADS FOR OUR
[000:16:55;147] AMERICAN DEMOCRACY.
[000:16:56;181] WE DIDN'T KNOW THEN WHAT AN
[000:16:57;216] OMINOUS STATEMENT THAT WAS.
[000:16:58;183] WE DO KNOW.
[000:16:59;151] CONGRESS WAS ATTACKED BY A
[000:17:01;020] VIOLENT MOB INCITED BY THE
[000:17:03;155] PRESIDENT TO STOP US FROM DOING
[000:17:05;057] OUR CONSTITUTIONAL JOB.
[000:17:07;059] THE PRESIDENT NOT ONLY
[000:17:08;093] ENCOURAGED THE MOB, HE SAID HE
[000:17:10;162] LOVED THEM AND MADE NO SERIOUS
[000:17:11;430] EFFORT TO STOP THEM.
[000:17:13;132] LIVES WERE LOST AND PUT IN
[000:17:16;168] DANGER.
[000:17:16;502] CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT WAS
[000:17:17;236] URGENTLY THREATENED.
[000:17:18;337] THE PRESIDENT'S ACTIONS WERE
[000:17:19;405] NOT ONLY WRONG, THEY WERE
[000:17:21;173] DANGEROUS.
[000:17:22;174] HE LIVES IN AN ALTERNATE
[000:17:24;343] REALITY.
[000:17:24;676] HE'S A CONTINUING THREAT TO
[000:17:26;211] AMERICA.
[000:17:28;180] VICE PRESIDENT PENCE SHOULD
[000:17:29;181] INVOKE THE 25TH AMENDMENT,
[000:17:31;216] ASSUME PRESIDENTIAL DUTIES
[000:17:32;518] UNTIL THE INAUGURATION NEXT
[000:17:34;553] WEEK, AND SAVE US FROM A
[000:17:37;356] PRESIDENT WHO IS UNABLE TO
[000:17:40;359] FUNCTION, UNABLE TO PROTECT OUR
[000:17:42;461] COUNTRY.
[000:17:43;395] I URGE ALL, INCLUDING MY
[000:17:44;630] REPUBLICAN COLLEAGUES, TO PUT
[000:17:47;399] POLITICS ASIDE.
[000:17:49;401] ACT TO SECURE THE SAFETY OF OUR
[000:17:52;504] COUNTRY.
[000:17:53;372] WE TRULY ARE AT A CROSSROADS
[000:17:55;641] FOR OUR AMERICAN DEMOCRACY.
[000:17:59;445] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE
[000:18:00;546] GENTLEMAN FROM MARYLAND.
[000:18:01;146] MR. RASKIN: I RESERVE.
[000:18:02;681] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE
[000:18:03;582] GENTLEMAN RESERVES THE BALANCE
[000:18:04;316] OF HIS TIME.
[000:18:04;716] THE GENTLEMAN FROM OHIO IS
[000:18:05;417] RECOGNIZED.
[000:18:05;818] MR. JORDAN: MR. SPEAKER, I
[000:18:06;585] YIELD TWO -- I YIELD TWO
[000:18:08;587] MINUTES TO THE GENTLEMAN FROM
[000:18:09;288] ARIZONA.
[000:18:09;621] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE
[000:18:10;322] GENTLEMAN IS RECOGNIZED.
[000:18:14;660] MR. BIGGS: THANK YOU.
[000:18:15;227] THE VIOLENCE HAS BEEN
[000:18:15;794] CONDEMNED.
[000:18:16;662] SO I WONDERER WOULD WHY ARE THE
[000:18:17;796] DEMOCRATS STOKING THE FIRE
[000:18:19;031] INSTEAD OF DOUSING THE FLAMES?
[000:18:21;733] THIS 25TH AMENDMENT RESOLUTION
[000:18:24;837] IS ACTUALLY SIMILAR WITH SOME
[000:18:26;905] DIFFERENCES FROM THE PROPOSAL
[000:18:28;207] FILED IN OCTOBER OF THIS YEAR
[000:18:30;943] BY THE SAME REPRESENTATIVE AND
[000:18:32;945] JOINED BY 42 DEMOCRATS.
[000:18:34;179] THE PROBLEM THAT TIME IS THEY
[000:18:36;048] WERE TRYING TO GET THIS
[000:18:37;116] COMMISSION TOGETHER.
[000:18:39;985] THIS TIME THEY WANT THE VICE
[000:18:41;220] PRESIDENT TO INVOKE THE OTHER
[000:18:44;089] PORTION OF ARTICLE 4.
[000:18:45;124] BUT THE PROBLEM, OF COURSE, IS
[000:18:47;326] THE VICE PRESIDENT SAID IN A
[000:18:49;261] VERY LOVELY LETTER TO THEM
[000:18:50;462] SAYING HE'S NOT GOING TO DO
[000:18:51;396] THAT.
[000:18:52;231] SO OUR NATION IS DIVIDED.
[000:18:55;300] AND WHILE FOLKS ON THE LEFT ARE
[000:18:56;368] TRYING TO LAY THIS ALL ON
[000:18:57;302] PRESIDENT TRUMP, YOU SHOULD
[000:18:58;303] CONSIDER A FEW STATEMENTS FROM
[000:19:00;305] CLIQUES ACROSS THE AISLE.
[000:19:01;440] ONE OF OUR COLLEAGUES --
[000:19:02;574] COLLEAGUES ACROSS THE AISLE.
[000:19:03;509] ONE OF OUR COLLEAGUES AT ONE
[000:19:04;710] POINT SAID, IF YOU SEE ANYBODY
[000:19:06;778] FROM THAT CABINET IN A
[000:19:08;480] RESTAURANT AND DEPARTMENT
[000:19:09;615] STORE, GAS STATION, YOU GET OUT
[000:19:10;682] AND CREATE A CROWD AND YOU PUSH
[000:19:12;484] BACK ON THEM AND YOU TELL THEM,
[000:19:13;785] THEY'RE NOT WELCOME HERE.
[000:19:15;487] THEY'RE NOT WELCOME ANYMORE
[000:19:17;623] ANYWHERE.
[000:19:18;490] SENATOR BOOKER CALLED FOR HIS
[000:19:19;658] SUPPORTERS TO GO TO THE HILL
[000:19:21;527] TODAY, GET UP AND PLEASE GET UP
[000:19:22;828] IN THE FACE OF SOME CONGRESS
[000:19:24;696] PEOPLE.
[000:19:25;531] I HAVE DOZENS OF MORE SIMILAR
[000:19:28;600] STATEMENTS.
[000:19:29;601] BUT WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT
[000:19:30;836] HERE TODAY IS A RESOLUTION
[000:19:33;639] ASKING THE VICE PRESIDENT TO
[000:19:35;774] INVOKE THE 25TH AMENDMENT AND
[000:19:38;911] GET THE CABINET TOGETHER TO
[000:19:39;745] REMOVE THIS PRESIDENT.
[000:19:41;747] AND WHAT THAT DOES, IT IS
[000:19:44;783] BASICALLY DOING WHAT THE
[000:19:45;851] DEMOCRATS WRONGFULLY CLAIMED
[000:19:47;085] PRESIDENT TRUMP DID ON JANUARY
[000:19:49;755] 6.
[000:19:49;988] IT POURS GAS ON THE SMOLDERING
[000:19:52;824] EMBERS WHICH CONSIST OF TENS OF
[000:19:54;860] MILLIONS WHO BELIEVE THE
[000:19:55;861] INTEGRITY OF THE ELECTION WAS
[000:19:57;863] QUESTIONABLE.
[000:19:58;297] THEY FEEL DISENFRANCHISED.
[000:20:00;165] AND QUITE FRANKLY, THEY ARE
[000:20:02;935] MORE ANGRY THAN AGGRIEVED.
[000:20:04;970] SOME BELIEVE THAT BY DOING
[000:20:07;072] THIS, IT'S GOING TO BE HEALING.
[000:20:08;307] I HEARD THIS GENTLEMAN SAY THIS
[000:20:10;142] IN THE RULES COMMITTEE.
[000:20:11;176] DOING THIS TODAY WOULD BE
[000:20:13;011] HEALING.
[000:20:13;345] AND YET THE VICE PRESIDENT SAID
[000:20:14;479] HE'S NOT GOING TO DO THAT.
[000:20:17;082] AND IF THIS RESOLUTION IS TO
[000:20:18;116] ASK THE VICE PRESIDENT TO
[000:20:19;351] INVOKE THIS 25TH AMENDMENT, --
[000:20:23;055] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE
[000:20:24;122] GENTLEMAN HAS AN ADDITIONAL 30
[000:20:25;057] SECONDS.
[000:20:26;058] MR. BIGGS: THANK YOU.
[000:20:26;625] IF THIS IS WHAT THE PURPOSE OF
[000:20:28;327] THIS IS, TO ASK THE VICE
[000:20:30;362] PRESIDENT, THEN THE PURPOSE IS
[000:20:33;198] NOW NULL.
[000:20:36;201] BUT I SUGGEST TO YOU, IT LOOKS
[000:20:38;303] LIKE, IT WOULD APPEAR LIKE, IF
[000:20:41;173] WE'RE GOING TO PROCEED ON EVEN
[000:20:43;175] AFTER YOU RECEIVED THE ANSWER
[000:20:44;176] YOU'RE SEEKING, AND IT'S
[000:20:48;180] DISAPPROBATION OF YOUR IDEA,
[000:20:48;880] THE ONLY THING THAT COULD BE
[000:20:50;182] LEFT IS TO POUR GAS ON A FIRE.
[000:20:52;184] I'M ASKING THAT COOLER HEADS
[000:20:53;418] PREVAIL HERE.
[000:20:54;286] THIS IS NOT NECESSARY.
[000:20:56;221] DON'T LET THIS GET IN THE WAY
[000:20:59;291] -- AND JUST TO PARROT THE LAST
[000:21:01;260] SPEAKER, I'M ASKING FRIENDS
[000:21:02;394] ACROSS THE AISLE, DON'T DO THIS
[000:21:04;463] THING.
[000:21:06;298] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE
[000:21:06;999] GENTLEMAN FROM OHIO, YOU
[000:21:08;333] RESERVE?
[000:21:09;334] MR. JORDAN: RESERVE.
[000:21:09;868] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE
[000:21:10;569] GENTLEMAN RESERVES THE BALANCE
[000:21:11;303] OF HIS TIME.
[000:21:11;703] THE GENTLEMAN FROM MARYLAND.
[000:21:12;371] MR. RASKIN: MR. SPEAKER, THE
[000:21:15;474] GENTLEMAN REASONABLY POSES THE
[000:21:16;408] QUESTION, WHY ARE WE DOING
[000:21:18;543] THIS?
[000:21:19;444] WE THINK THAT THE PRESIDENT OF
[000:21:21;580] THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTES A
[000:21:22;748] CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER TO THE
[000:21:24;616] REPUBLIC.
[000:21:25;517] AND TO OUR PEOPLE.
[000:21:27;552] FOR EXAMPLE, ON THE WHITE
[000:21:29;655] SUPREMACIST WEBSITES THAT
[000:21:31;556] HELPED TO BUILD THE PRESIDENT'S
[000:21:33;925] MOB, THEY ARE NOW CALLING FOR A
[000:21:37;596] RETURN ENGAGEMENT ON THE DAYS
[000:21:39;731] OF JANUARY 19 AND 20.
[000:21:41;667] THEY ARE CALLING AGAIN FOR AN
[000:21:43;735] ATTACK ON THE CAPITOL AND
[000:21:45;037] THEY'RE CALLING AGAIN FOR THE
[000:21:48;006] STATE LEGISLATURES NOW IN 50
[000:21:49;875] STATES TO BE SURROUNDED.
[000:21:51;043] WHAT WILL THE ATTITUDE BE OF
[000:21:52;911] THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
[000:21:54;946] STATES?
[000:21:55;280] WILL HE GIVE THEM AID AND
[000:21:56;848] COMFORT?
[000:21:57;182] WILL HE WINK AT THEM?
[000:21:58;950] WILL HE SEND THEM POSITIVE
[000:22:00;886] TWEETS AND MESSAGES CALLING
[000:22:02;087] THEM PATRIOTS?
[000:22:03;989] ALSO ON EXTREME RIGHT WING
[000:22:07;059] WEBSITES, THEY'RE CALLING FOR
[000:22:08;126] PRESIDENT TO PARDON THE
[000:22:09;261] ORGANIZERS OF THE ARMED VIOLENT
[000:22:11;296] INSURRECTION THAT TOOK PLACE IN
[000:22:13;165] THIS BODY NOT EVEN A WEEK AGO.
[000:22:15;133] AND WHAT IF THE PRESIDENT
[000:22:17;169] DECIDES TO PARDON THEM?
[000:22:18;203] WE KNOW THIS PRESIDENT IS NOT
[000:22:20;205] LIVING UP TO THE MOST MINIMAL
[000:22:22;240] DUTIES OF HIS OFFICE.
[000:22:23;408] THAT'S WHY WE ARE DOING THIS.
[000:22:25;410] TO PROTECT THE PUBLIC.
[000:22:26;511] AND BY THE WAY, WE'RE NOT
[000:22:29;448] TELLING THE VICE PRESIDENT WHAT
[000:22:30;549] HE MUST DO.
[000:22:31;516] WE HAVE NO AUTHORITY TO DO
[000:22:32;617] THAT.
[000:22:32;918] WE'RE TELLING HIM WHAT HE
[000:22:34;653] THINKS HE SHOULD DO AND THAT
[000:22:36;755] THE CONGRESS WILL BE WITH HIM.
[000:22:38;623] BECAUSE WE KNOW THAT HE HAS
[000:22:40;625] COME UNDER EXTREME RIGHT WING
[000:22:41;660] PRESSURE ON EVERYTHING FROM THE
[000:22:43;729] COUNTING OF THE ELECTORAL
[000:22:44;863] COLLEGE VOTES TO HIS POSITIONS
[000:22:46;898] ON A WHOLE RANGE OF THINGS, TO
[000:22:48;834] GO ALONG WITH DONALD TRUMP.
[000:22:50;035] SO WE ARE TRYING TO COUNTER
[000:22:51;803] BALANCE -- COUNTERBALANCE THAT
[000:22:52;871] ATTACK ON HIM FROM THE RIGHT TO
[000:22:54;906] SAY, THE PEOPLE WANT TO SEE A
[000:22:56;942] PEACEFUL WAY THROUGH THIS.
[000:22:57;976] WITH THAT, I WILL RECOGNIZE MS.
[000:23:00;011] JACKSON LEE FOR ONE MINUTE.
[000:23:01;012] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE
[000:23:01;713] GENTLELADY FROM TEXAS, MS.
[000:23:02;414] JACKSON LEE, IS RECOGNIZED.
[000:23:05;083] MS. JACKSON LEE: ACCOUNTABILITY
[000:23:06;251] COMES BEFORE HEALING.
[000:23:07;152] BUT HEALING SHOULD COME.
[000:23:09;287] IF WE LOOK AT THE CONSTITUTION,
[000:23:11;056] WE WILL CLEARLY SEE THAT MR.
[000:23:14;059] RASKIN'S RESOLUTION FITS THE
[000:23:15;127] LANGUAGE, AN INABILITY TO BE
[000:23:19;064] ABLE TO DISCHARGE YOUR DUTIES,
[000:23:20;332] TO EXERCISE THE LAWS CAREFULLY.
[000:23:22;267] DO YOU CONSIDER THESE WORDS
[000:23:23;201] FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE
[000:23:24;369] UNITED STATES TO
[000:23:26;104] INSURRECTIONISTS AND TERRORISTS
[000:23:27;272] TO WALK DOWN TO THE CAPITOL,
[000:23:29;107] TELLS THE PRESIDENT, TELLING
[000:23:30;242] THEM, IF YOU DON'T FIGHT LIKE
[000:23:31;276] HELL, YOU'RE NOT GOING TO HAVE
[000:23:32;411] A COUNTRY ANYMORE.
[000:23:34;279] AND THAT IS THE ATTACK THAT THE
[000:23:35;414] DOMESTIC TERRORISTS MADE ON
[000:23:38;150] THIS PLACE.
[000:23:38;550] ALL WE'RE ASKING THE VICE
[000:23:40;318] PRESIDENT THROUGH THIS
[000:23:42;320] RESOLUTION IS TO REFLECT ON
[000:23:43;355] THAT AND TO CALL UPON THE 25TH
[000:23:45;457] AMENDMENT TO CONVENE THE
[000:23:46;458] CABINET, TO BEGIN THE HEALING.
[000:23:48;527] BECAUSE, THE PRESIDENT OF THE
[000:23:51;496] UNITED STATES IS DANGEROUS TO
[000:23:52;431] THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
[000:23:53;398] THAT IS WHY WE'RE ON THE FLOOR
[000:23:54;800] TODAY.
[000:23:55;434] WE HOPE THAT HE WILL HAVE AN
[000:23:56;468] OPPORTUNITY TO REFLECT, BECAUSE
[000:23:58;670] THE CONSTITUTION SAYS IN MANY
[000:24:00;539] PLACES THAT THE OOKS ACTIONS OF
[000:24:02;641] THIS PRESIDENT -- THAT THE
[000:24:03;308] ACTIONS OF THIS PRESIDENT IS
[000:24:04;042] DANGEROUS.
[000:24:04;609] PEOPLE HAVE DIED.
[000:24:05;610] WE HAVE LOST TWO POLICE
[000:24:07;746] OFFICERS.
[000:24:08;113] OTHERS ARE IN THE HOSPITAL.
[000:24:08;914] AND, YES, IT WAS AN
[000:24:10;682] INSURRECTION.
[000:24:11;650] IT IS TIME TO PASS H.RES. 21.
[000:24:13;819] I YIELD BACK.
[000:24:15;654] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE
[000:24:16;354] GENTLELADY'S TIME HAS EXPIRED.
[000:24:17;055] THE GENTLEMAN FROM MARYLAND.
[000:24:17;722] DO YOU RESERVE?
[000:24:18;190] MR. RASKIN: YES.
[000:24:18;657] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE
[000:24:19;357] GENTLEMAN RESERVES THE BALANCE
[000:24:20;091] OF HIS TIME.
[000:24:20;492] THE GENTLEMAN FROM OHIO.
[000:24:21;092] MR. JORDAN: THANK YOU, MR.
[000:24:21;760] SPEAKER.
[000:24:22;093] I YIELD ONE MINUTE TO THE
[000:24:23;094] GENTLELADY FROM GEORGIA.
[000:24:23;829] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE
[000:24:24;796] GENTLELADY FROM GEORGIA IS
[000:24:25;464] RECOGNIZED FOR ONE MINUTE.
[000:24:27;732] MS. TAYLOR GREENE: MR. SPEAKER,
[000:24:28;467] I'D LIKE TO QUOTE THE PRESIDENT
[000:24:29;734] OF THE UNITED STATES.
[000:24:30;969] I KNOW THAT EVERYONE HERE WILL
[000:24:32;838] SOON BE MARCHING OVER TO THE
[000:24:34;773] CAPITOL BUILDING TO PEACEFULLY
[000:24:37;075] AND PATRIOTICALLY MAKE YOUR
[000:24:39;044] VOICES HEARD.
[000:24:40;946] GO HOME WITH PEACE, WITH LOVE
[000:24:42;914] AND IN PEACE, REMEMBER THIS DAY
[000:24:44;916] FOREVER.
[000:24:46;852] PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP.
[000:24:48;153] I CONDEMN THIS VIOLENCE,
[000:24:49;888] REPUBLICANS HAVE CONDEMNED THIS
[000:24:50;956] VIOLENCE, PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS
[000:24:52;891] CONDEMNED THIS VIOLENCE.
[000:24:54;059] BUT ELECTED DEMOCRATS OVER THE
[000:24:56;027] PAST YEAR HAVE PROMOTED
[000:24:57;996] VIOLENCE, HAVE SUPPORTED IT,
[000:25:00;232] THEY FUND IT ON THEIR ACT BLUE
[000:25:03;235] FUNDRAISING PLATFORM, AND THERE
[000:25:05;170] HAS BEEN BILLIONS OF DAMAGE
[000:25:07;172] CAUSED OVER THIS PAST YEAR,
[000:25:09;307] RIOTS ALL OVER THIS COUNTRY.
[000:25:11;276] YOU KNOW HOW MANY COMPANIES
[000:25:14;246] HAVE ENDURED VIOLENCE AND
[000:25:17;282] DESTRUCTION?
[000:25:17;682] I HAVE 83 PAGES HERE OF
[000:25:20;318] BUSINESSES THAT HAD PROPERTY
[000:25:23;321] DAMAGE, WERE BURNED, THROUGH
[000:25:24;623] THE MINNESOTA RIOTS.
[000:25:29;327] OUR VICE PRESIDENT-ELECT KAMALA
[000:25:31;463] HARRIS POSTED THE MINNESOTA
[000:25:33;365] FREEDOM FUND BAIL LINK,
[000:25:34;499] ENCOURAGING PEOPLE TO DONATE
[000:25:36;401] MONEY TO BAIL CRIMINALS OUT OF
[000:25:38;470] JAIL.
[000:25:39;437] WE SHOULDN'T BE HYPOCRITES.
[000:25:40;672] I YIELD BACK.
[000:25:42;574] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE
[000:25:43;275] GENTLELADY'S TIME HAS EXPIRED.
[000:25:43;975] THE GENTLELADY YIELDS BACK THE
[000:25:44;709] BALANCE OF HER TIME.
[000:25:45;243] THE GENTLEMAN FROM OHIO, DO YOU
[000:25:45;977] RESERVE?
[000:25:46;311] MR. JORDAN: RESERVE.
[000:25:46;845] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE
[000:25:47;546] GENTLEMAN RESERVES THE BALANCE
[000:25:48;280] OF HIS TIME.
[000:25:48;680] THE GENTLEMAN FROM MARYLAND.
[000:25:49;347] MR. RASKIN: MR. SPEAKER, I'M
[000:25:50;081] HONORED TO YIELD TWO MINUTES TO
[000:25:50;849] MR. KATKO OF NEW YORK.
[000:25:53;652] MR. KATKO: I THANK MY COLLEAGUE
[000:25:54;986] FOR YIELDING.
[000:25:55;820] I RISE AS A PROUD AMERICAN WHO
[000:25:56;988] HAS A DISTINCT HONOR OF SERVING
[000:25:58;790] IN THIS GREAT BODY.
[000:26:00;692] AS A MEMBER OF CONGRESS, WE
[000:26:01;960] TAKE AN OATH TO DEFEND THE
[000:26:03;795] CONSTITUTION.
[000:26:04;729] BECAUSE AT TIMES IT NEEDS
[000:26:06;765] DEFENDING.
[000:26:07;132] ON JANUARY 6, THE NATION
[000:26:08;767] WATCHED AS INSURRECTIONISTS
[000:26:10;769] STORMED THE CAPITOL,
[000:26:12;771] THREATENING THE SAFETY OF
[000:26:13;838] COUNTLESS INDIVIDUALS AND
[000:26:14;839] SUCCESSFULLY, ALBEIT
[000:26:15;941] TEMPORARILY, DISRUPTING OUR
[000:26:17;809] PROCESS.
[000:26:18;143] IN THE MIDST OF THE ATTACK,
[000:26:18;944] HUNDREDS OF CAPITOL POLICE
[000:26:20;946] OFFICERS HEROICALLY UPHELD
[000:26:22;113] THEIR DUTY TO DEFEND THE UNITED
[000:26:23;915] STATES AND PROTECT THOSE WHO
[000:26:24;816] WORK HERE.
[000:26:25;850] MANY OFFICERS WERE SEVERELY
[000:26:27;852] INJURED AND BEATEN.
[000:26:28;920] INCLUDING ONE OF MY FORMER
[000:26:30;889] INTERNS.
[000:26:31;222] AND TRG -- TRAGICALLY, ONE
[000:26:32;924] OFFICER, OFFICER BRIAN
[000:26:34;993] SICKNICK, SUCCUMBED TO THE
[000:26:35;660] INJURIES HE SUSTAINED.
[000:26:37;195] TO OFFICER SICKNICK'S FAMILY, I
[000:26:39;230] EXTEND MY DEEPEST CONDOLENCES
[000:26:42;267] AND KNOW WE ARE PRAYING FOR
[000:26:44;135] YOU.
[000:26:44;402] TO ALL CAPITOL POLICE OFFICERS,
[000:26:46;104] WE'RE DEEPLY THANKFUL FOR YOUR
[000:26:47;305] BRAVERY.
[000:26:47;639] BECAUSE OF YOU THOUSANDS WERE
[000:26:48;340] LIVES WERE PROTECTED AND THE
[000:26:50;108] PEOPLE'S WORK WAS ABLE TO
[000:26:51;142] RESUME.
[000:26:52;110] NOW, JUST AS THE CAPITOL POLICE
[000:26:54;112] PROTECTED US, CONGRESS MUST
[000:26:57;115] MATCH THAT COURAGE AND PROTECT
[000:26:59;284] THE CONSTITUTION.
[000:27:00;151] OUR DEMOCRATIC PROCESSES AND
[000:27:02;187] THIS NATION.
[000:27:03;355] THE PRESIDENT'S ROLE IN THIS
[000:27:04;356] INSURRECTION IS UNDENIABLE.
[000:27:05;523] BOTH ON SOCIAL MEDIA ON JANUARY
[000:27:08;426] 6 AND IN HIS SPEECH THAT DAY.
[000:27:10;362] HE DELDEL -- DELIBERATELY
[000:27:11;529] PROMOTED BASELESS THEORIES,
[000:27:13;331] CREATING A COMBUSTIBLE
[000:27:14;366] ENVIRONMENT OF MISINFORMATION
[000:27:16;368] AND DIVISION.
[000:27:16;801] TO ALLOW THE PRESIDENT OF THE
[000:27:17;836] UNITED STATES TO INCITE THIS
[000:27:19;404] ATTACK WITHOUT CONSEQUENCES IS
[000:27:21;473] A DIRECT THREAT TO THE FUTURE
[000:27:22;540] OF THIS DEMOCRACY.
[000:27:23;675] FOR THIS REASON, I WILL VOTE TO
[000:27:25;510] IMPEACH THIS PRESIDENT
[000:27:26;678] TOMORROW.
[000:27:27;512] THE BILL BEFORE US TONIGHT IS A
[000:27:29;547] NONBINDING RESOLUTION.
[000:27:30;682] WHICH REQUESTS THE VICE
[000:27:31;650] PRESIDENT TO INVOKE THE 25TH
[000:27:33;718] AMENDMENT, A STEP HE'S ALREADY
[000:27:34;886] SAID HE WILL NOT TAKE.
[000:27:35;720] IT IS MERELY A SYMBOLIC
[000:27:37;589] GESTURE.
[000:27:37;922] AND I WILL OPPOSE THAT
[000:27:39;691] RESOLUTION.
[000:27:40;091] AFTER LAST WEEK'S ATTACK ON THE
[000:27:41;826] CAPITOL, IT IS CLEAR OUR
[000:27:42;727] NATION'S MORE DIVIDED THAN EVER
[000:27:43;862] IN RECENT HISTORY.
[000:27:45;597] WE BEGAN THIS GREAT EXPERIMENT
[000:27:47;832] OVER 240 YEARS AGO AND TO
[000:27:50;602] PRESERVE IT WE MUST REMEMBER
[000:27:51;836] THAT OUR FAITH, RACE OR
[000:27:53;705] POLITICAL PARTY IS NOT WHAT
[000:27:55;740] UNITES US.
[000:27:56;741] WHAT UNITES US IS THAT WE ARE
[000:27:57;842] AMERICANS.
[000:27:58;743] I'D ENCOURAGE MEMBERS OF THIS
[000:27:59;844] BODY AND EVERYONE AT HOME TO
[000:28:01;780] REMEMBER THAT SIMPLE TRUTH.
[000:28:03;014] AND WITH THAT, I YIELD BACK.
[000:28:04;983] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE
[000:28:05;884] GENTLEMAN YIELDS BACK THE
[000:28:06;518] BALANCE OF HIS TIME.
[000:28:07;052] THE GENTLEMAN FROM OHIO, DO YOU
[000:28:08;853] -- YOU RESERVE.
[000:28:09;854] MR. JORDAN: NO, I WILL YIELD --
[000:28:12;957] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE
[000:28:13;658] GENTLEMAN FROM MARYLAND
[000:28:14;292] RESERVES.
[000:28:14;993] MR. JORDAN: I WILL YIELD 2 1/2
[000:28:16;995] MINUTES TO THE GENTLEMAN FROM
[000:28:17;996] NORTH CAROLINA, MR. BISHOP.
[000:28:19;030] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE
[000:28:19;731] GENTLEMAN FROM NORTH CAROLINA,
[000:28:21;299] MR. BISHOP, IS RECOGNIZED.
[000:28:22;200] MR. BISHOP: THANK YOU, MR.
[000:28:23;101] SPEAKER.
[000:28:23;435] I THANK THE GENTLEMAN FOR
[000:28:25;036] YIELDING.
[000:28:27;038] TWO
[000:28:31;042] TWO QUESTIONS AS WE BEGIN
[000:28:32;243] ANOTHER 24 HOURS THAT WILL
[000:28:34;212] DEEPEN THE WOUNDS OF THE COUNTRY
[000:28:36;181] AND THE DISAFFECTION OF
[000:28:39;084] AMERICANS.
[000:28:39;451] FIRST, WILL YOU STOP AT NOTHING?
[000:28:41;252] SECOND, IS THERE ANY HYPOCRISY
[000:28:43;288] TOO FAR?
[000:28:44;255] LET'S CALL THIS WHAT IT IS.
[000:28:46;224] AN ULTIMATUM.
[000:28:48;259] AN ATTEMPT TO INTIMIDATE AND
[000:28:50;395] BULLY VICE PRESIDENT PENCE.
[000:28:57;535] THEY'RE NOT SEEKING THE SAME
[000:28:59;471] ENDS AS MR. MCCLINTOCK OF
[000:29:02;540] CALIFORNIA SAID, TO EMPLOYEE THE
[000:29:04;743] SAME MEANS.
[000:29:05;677] THEY SPEAK TO BULLY THE VICE
[000:29:06;878] PRESIDENT TO ABUSE POWER UNDER
[000:29:08;780] THE 25TH AMENDMENT INTENDED TO
[000:29:10;648] PROVIDE FOR TEMPORARY OR SUDDEN
[000:29:12;650] INCAPACITY OF THE PRESIDENT
[000:29:13;685] WHILE THEY CLAIM TO BE
[000:29:15;787] SCANDALIZED ABOUT THE PRESIDENT
[000:29:17;722] BULLYING THE VICE PRESIDENT ONE
[000:29:18;790] WEEK AGO TO ABUSE POWER UNDER
[000:29:21;059] THE 12TH AMENDMENT.
[000:29:23;795] WITH ALL DUE RESPECT TO THE
[000:29:24;829] GENTLEMAN FROM MARYLAND, HE HAS
[000:29:26;097] NOT ANSWERED, WHY ARE YOU DOING
[000:29:28;933] THIS NOW?
[000:29:30;935] TONIGHT, THE VICE PRESIDENT HAS
[000:29:32;003] CLARIFIED.
[000:29:32;937] IN A LETTER SENT TO ALL OF US AT
[000:29:36;074] 7:34 P.M. THAT THIS RESOLUTION
[000:29:38;143] HAS ABSOLUTELY NO OTHER PURPOSE.
[000:29:41;146] HERE ARE THREE KEY THING HE IS
[000:29:43;281] SAID.
[000:29:44;215] I QUOTE.
[000:29:45;183] I URGE YOU AND EVERY MEMBER OF
[000:29:47;485] CONGRESS TO AVOID ACTIONS THAT
[000:29:49;487] WOULD FURTHER DIVIDE AND INFLAME
[000:29:51;456] THE PASSIONS OF THE MOMENT.
[000:29:52;757] WORK WITH US TO LOWER THE
[000:29:55;393] TEMPERATURE AND UNITE OUR
[000:29:56;461] COUNTRY.
[000:29:58;396] QUOTE, AS YOU KNOW FULL WELL,
[000:30:00;598] THE 25TH AMENDMENT WAS DESIGNED
[000:30:02;567] TO ADDRESS PRESIDENTIAL
[000:30:04;469] INCAPACITY OR DISABILITY.
[000:30:05;470] UNDER OUR CONSTITUTION, THE 25TH
[000:30:07;505] AMENDMENT IS NOT A MEANS OF
[000:30:12;677] USURPATION.
[000:30:13;077] QUOTE, AND LISTEN TO THIS ONE
[000:30:14;712] CAREFULLY, QUOTE, LAST WEEK, I
[000:30:16;781] DID NOT YIELD TO PRESSURE TO
[000:30:18;817] EXERT POWER BEYOND MY
[000:30:20;685] CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY AND I
[000:30:21;820] WILL NOT NOW YIELD TO EFFORTS IN
[000:30:23;922] THE HOUSE TO PLAY POLITICAL
[000:30:25;924] GAMES AT A TIME SO SERIOUS IN
[000:30:28;026] THE LIFE OF OUR NATION.
[000:30:31;796] THE VICE PRESIDENT HAS GIVEN YOU
[000:30:34;866] YOUR ANSWER BEFORE YOU ASK THE
[000:30:35;967] QUESTION.
[000:30:37;902] NO LEGITIMATE PURPOSE TO THIS
[000:30:38;970] RESOLUTION REMAINS.
[000:30:42;974] YOUR ULTIMATUM GOS DOWN TO A
[000:30:48;046] CORE FEATURE OF THE
[000:30:50;014] CONSTITUTION.
[000:30:50;448] THE FRAMERS WERE EMPHATIC TO
[000:30:53;051] AVOID MAKING THE PRESIDENT A
[000:30:54;152] CREATURE OF CONGRESS.
[000:30:54;719] THE 25TH AMENDMENT WAS NOT
[000:30:56;287] RATIFIED TO CHANGE THAT, AS YOU
[000:30:58;223] WELL KNOW.
[000:30:59;157] PLEASE DO NOT PERVERT THIS
[000:31:01;259] IMPORTANT PROTECTION TO
[000:31:02;260] UNDERMINE THE CONSTITUTION.
[000:31:03;294] I YIELD BACK.
[000:31:05;330] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: MEMBERS
[000:31:06;331] ARE REMINED TO DIRECT THEIR
[000:31:07;498] COMMENTS TO THE CHAIR.
[000:31:09;400] THE GENTLEMAN FROM MARYLAND.
[000:31:11;436] MR. RASKIN: I YIELD ONE MINUTE
[000:31:14;472] TO THE GENTLEMAN FROM TENNESSEE.
[000:31:16;441] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE
[000:31:17;141] GENTLEMAN IS RECOGNIZED.
[000:31:17;775] >> LAST WEDNESDAY I CAME TO
[000:31:19;677] THESE HALLLOWED HALLS WHERE I
[000:31:21;546] SERVE TO WATCH THE ELECTORAL
[000:31:23;581] COLLEGE RATIFY AND CERTIFY THE
[000:31:24;782] ELECTION OF JOE BIDEN IN WHAT
[000:31:27;785] WAS FAIR, TRANSPARENT, ELECTION,
[000:31:31;756] THAT 61 COURTS LOOKED INTO AND
[000:31:34;926] ALL SAID IT WAS FINE.
[000:31:36;895] MR. COHEN: I WAS SITTING UP
[000:31:37;962] THERE IN THE GALLERY WHEN A
[000:31:40;064] CAPITOL POLICEMAN CAME IN AND
[000:31:42;000] SAID WE'RE LOCKING THE DOOR.
[000:31:44;102] WE ARE LOCKING THE DOORS.
[000:31:45;136] AND WITH ONLY MINUTES OF THAT, I
[000:31:47;071] HEARD THE RATTLE TISSUE THE
[000:31:49;107] RABBLE KNOCKING ON THE DOOR
[000:31:50;174] TRYING TO KNOCK IT DOWN.
[000:31:52;143] WE WERE THEN TOLD TO PUT ON OUR
[000:31:53;378] GAS MASKS AND EVACUATE AND WE
[000:31:55;446] ALL DID IT.
[000:31:58;216] THIS WAS AN ASSAULT ON THE
[000:32:00;318] CONSTITUTION, AN ASSAULT ON
[000:32:01;419] CONGRESS.
[000:32:02;287] IT WAS A FELONIOUS ASSAULT.
[000:32:04;489] IT WAS AN ATTEMPT TO MURDER THE
[000:32:07;392] CONGRESS AND OUR PROCESSES TO
[000:32:09;460] ELECT OUR PRESIDENT OF THE
[000:32:10;528] UNITED STATES.
[000:32:11;496] IT IS THE POLITICAL EQUIVALENT
[000:32:12;931] OF SHOOTING SOMEBODY ON 5TH
[000:32:14;666] AVENUE AND GETTING AWAY WITH IT
[000:32:16;668] AND SOMEBODY NEEDS TO STAND UP
[000:32:17;802] TO THAT AND THE 25TH AMENDMENT
[000:32:19;804] IS ONE WAY TO DO IT WHETHER
[000:32:22;707] REPUBLICANS CAN PURGE THEMSELVES
[000:32:23;875] OF THEIR OWN CREATION WHO HAS
[000:32:24;976] DAMAGED THIS COUNTRY.
[000:32:27;011] I ASK US TO PASS THIS
[000:32:28;880] RESOLUTION.
[000:32:29;280] BRING THIS COUNTRY TOGETHER AN
[000:32:30;848] GET RID OF THIS CANCER.
[000:32:31;983] I YIELD BACK.
[000:32:32;850] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE
[000:32:33;551] GENTLEMAN YEALEDS BACK.
[000:32:34;185] DOES THE GENTLEMAN RESERVE?
[000:32:35;920] THE GENTLEMAN FROM OHIO.
[000:32:36;921] MR. YORDAN: THANK YOU, MR.
[000:32:37;989] SPEAKER.
[000:32:38;323] I YIELD ONE MINUTE TO THE
[000:32:39;023] GENTLEMAN FROM WISCONSIN.
[000:32:39;958] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE
[000:32:41;025] GENTLEMAN IS RECOGNIZED.
[000:32:42;126] >> THANK YOU.
[000:32:43;194] THIS IS AN ABSURD RESOLUTION,
[000:32:46;064] CALLOUSLY POLITICIZING AN
[000:32:48;099] UNPREDICTABLE HAPPENING LAST
[000:32:52;136] WEEK.
[000:32:52;437] WE ALL KNOW PRESIDENT TRUMP
[000:32:55;139] CALLED FOR A PEACEFUL, PATRIOTIC
[000:32:58;142] MARCH.
[000:32:58;443] I HAVE ATTENDED MULTIPLE TRUMP
[000:33:01;279] RALLY, ALWAYS PEACEFUL EVENTS,
[000:33:04;349] TIPICAL OF THOUSANDS OF THE
[000:33:07;518] PROTESTERS LAST WEEK.
[000:33:08;419] I NEVER WOULD HAVE EXPECTED THIS
[000:33:10;288] IN A MILLION YEARS.
[000:33:11;456] THAT IS A HORRIBLE EVENT BUT NOT
[000:33:13;391] LIKE THE BLACK LIVES MATTER OR
[000:33:15;460] ANTIFA EVENTS THAT WENT ON DAY
[000:33:17;495] AFTER DAY IN CITY AFTER CITY
[000:33:19;397] WITH PROMINENT DEMOCRATS FANNING
[000:33:21;532] THE FLAMES BY MISCHARACTERIZING
[000:33:22;734] POLICE SHOOTINGS OR ENCOURAGING
[000:33:25;436] BAIL FOR LAWBREAKERS.
[000:33:26;671] LESS THAN TWO YEAR AGO, A MEMBER
[000:33:29;607] OF THIS BODY ENCOURAGED HARASS.
[000:33:31;609] OF TRUMP OFFICERS AT
[000:33:33;544] RESTAURANTS, GAS STATIONS AND
[000:33:34;746] DEPARTMENT STORES.
[000:33:35;646] SHE WAS REWARDED WITH THE
[000:33:37;582] CHAIRMANSHIP OF A COMMITTEE.
[000:33:38;750] EVEN LAST WEEK'S RIOTS, THE
[000:33:42;720] SPEAKER TRIED TO PREPOSTEROUSLY
[000:33:45;757] RACIALIZE THEM WHICH CAN ONLY
[000:33:46;991] LEAD TO TROUBLE, MAYBE VIOLENCE.
[000:33:48;926] EVERYBODY BACK HOME SAYS WE
[000:33:50;028] OUGHT TO GET ALONG.
[000:33:51;062] IS THIS THE WAY TO START THINGS?
[000:33:53;031] IT'S TIME TO GET BACK TO DEALING
[000:33:54;098] WITH THE PEOPLE'S BUSINESS,
[000:33:55;967] DEALING WITH THE CANCEL CULTURE.
[000:33:58;136] THANK YOU.
[000:33:59;003] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE
[000:33:59;704] GENTLEMAN YIELDS BACK.
[000:34:00;271] THE GENTLEMAN RESERVES.
[000:34:01;172] THE GENTLEMAN FROM MARYLAND.
[000:34:03;007] MR. RASKIN: I YIELD ONE MINUTE
[000:34:04;208] TO THE GENTLEMAN FROM GEORGIA,
[000:34:06;277] MR. JOHNSON.
[000:34:07;145] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE
[000:34:07;845] GENTLEMAN IS RECOGNIZED FOR ONE
[000:34:08;579] MINUTE.
[000:34:09;180] MR. SWRNS: THANK YOU, MR.
[000:34:10;415] SPEAKER.
[000:34:15;319] FOR 244 YEARS, AMERICA HAS STOOD
[000:34:18;423] AS THE BELLWETHER OF DEMOCRACY.
[000:34:22;393] LAST WEEK, THE WORLD SAW AMERICA
[000:34:24;695] AT PERHAPS HER LOWEST MOMENT.
[000:34:26;597] IT WAS CRAZY.
[000:34:27;031] WE ALL TOOK THE SAME OATH WHEN
[000:34:28;766] WE SWORE TO PROTECT THIS COUNTRY
[000:34:30;768] FROM ENEMIES BOTH FOREIGN AND
[000:34:32;870] DOMESTIC.
[000:34:35;606] AND NOW WITH A DOMESTIC ENEMY
[000:34:38;776] HAVING ARISEN, THAT IS CRAZY,
[000:34:43;781] ONLY THE VICE PRESIDENT HAS THE
[000:34:44;816] POWER TO INVOKE THE 25TH
[000:34:46;818] AMENDMENT AND PROTECT THIS
[000:34:48;820] COUNTRY FROM THIS DOMESTIC
[000:34:50;088] ENEMY.
[000:34:50;822] THE 25TH AMENDMENT WAS WRITTEN
[000:34:53;291] FOR THIS MOMENT.
[000:34:54;959] AND IF NOT NOW, WHEN WOULD ITS
[000:34:57;328] USE EVER BE APPROPRIATE?
[000:35:01;265] VICE PRESIDENT PENCE, YOU HAVE
[000:35:03;267] AN OPPORTUNITY TO PUT COUNTRY
[000:35:04;302] BEFORE SELF BY IMPLEMENTING THE
[000:35:06;104] 25TH AMENDMENT.
[000:35:08;139] PLEASE MUSTER THE COURAGE TO
[000:35:10;208] PROTECT AMERICA FROM MANIACAL
[000:35:13;311] BEHAVIOR THAT THREATENS THE VERY
[000:35:15;179] FOUNDATIONS OF OUR DEMOCRACY.
[000:35:17;281] STOP THE VIOLENCE, MR. VICE
[000:35:18;449] PRESIDENT.
[000:35:19;283] WITH THAT, I YIELD BACK.
[000:35:20;284] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE
[000:35:21;419] GENTLEMAN YIELDS BACK.
[000:35:21;986] THE GENTLEMAN RESERVES.
[000:35:23;354] THE GENTLEMAN FROM OHIO.
[000:35:25;323] MR. JORDAN: I YIELD TWO MINUTES
[000:35:26;491] TO THE GENTLEMAN FROM OHIO, MR.
[000:35:28;392] CHABOT.
[000:35:28;726] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE
[000:35:29;427] GENTLEMAN IS RECOGNIZED.
[000:35:30;561] MR. CHABOT: WHAT HAPPENED LAST
[000:35:32;530] WEEK WEDNESDAY AT THE CAPITOL
[000:35:33;564] NEVER SHOULD HAVE HAPPENED.
[000:35:34;599] THE ACTIONS OF THOSE WHO
[000:35:35;533] ATTEMPTED TO BREACH THE CAPITOL
[000:35:37;602] BUILDING AND THEN ULTIMATELY DID
[000:35:40;505] ARE INEXCUSABLE.
[000:35:42;507] LAWLESSNESS AND VIOLENCE ARE
[000:35:43;808] NEVER ACCEPTABLE, WHICHEVER SIDE
[000:35:45;643] OF THE POLITICAL DIVIDE ONE MAY
[000:35:47;712] FALL ON.
[000:35:48;679] THOSE WHO BROKE THE LAW SHOULD
[000:35:50;815] BE AND WILL BE IDENTIFIED AND
[000:35:52;750] PROSECUTED.
[000:35:53;151] IN THE AFTERMATH OF LAST WEEK'S
[000:35:55;920] TRAGIC EVENTS, MOST AMERICANS
[000:35:57;822] CONTINUE TO BE SADDENED, ANGRY,
[000:35:59;123] AND WANTING ANSWERS.
[000:36:00;825] AND THEY ARE LOOKING TO US TO
[000:36:02;894] PROVIDE A POSITIVE EXAMPLE ON
[000:36:04;295] THOUSAND TO BRING OUR NATION
[000:36:06;063] BACK TOGETHER.
[000:36:07;932] UNFORTUNATELY, IF WHAT WE'RE
[000:36:09;066] DOING THIS EVENING IS ANY
[000:36:10;968] INDICATION, CONGRESS MIGHT NOT
[000:36:11;702] BE UP TO THE TASK.
[000:36:13;037] THE DEMOCRATS' ATTEMPT TO INVOKE
[000:36:15;239] THE 25TH AMENDMENT AND TO ONCE
[000:36:18;142] AGAIN IMPEACH PRESIDENT TRUMP A
[000:36:20;144] WEEK BEFORE HE'LL BE LEAVING
[000:36:21;279] OFFICE ANYWAY ARE IN MY OPINION
[000:36:23;414] MISGUIDED.
[000:36:25;216] THE PUSH TO ENCOURAGE THE VICE
[000:36:26;551] PRESIDENT TO INVOKE THE 25TH
[000:36:28;319] AMENDMENT IS ESPECIALLY
[000:36:30;321] ILL-ADVISED.
[000:36:31;289] THE CONSTITUTION IS CLEAR THAT
[000:36:33;424] THE ROLE FOR CONGRESS TO PLAY
[000:36:34;625] UNDER THE 25TH AMENDMENT IS TO
[000:36:35;660] THE SIDE IF THE POWERS PROVIDED
[000:36:39;430] THERE UNDER HAVE BEEN PROPERLY
[000:36:41;465] INVOKED IN THE EVENT OF A
[000:36:43;501] DISPUTE BETWEEN THE PRESIDENT
[000:36:44;468] AND VICE PRESIDENT OR THE
[000:36:45;102] MAJORITY OF THE CABINET.
[000:36:46;504] IN OTHER WORDS, WE ARE TO SERVE
[000:36:47;238] AS JUDGES UNDER THE 25TH
[000:36:49;607] AMENDMENT, NOT INSTIGATORS.
[000:36:51;842] BY ENCOURAGING THE VICE
[000:36:54;011] PRESIDENT TO TAKE ACTION,
[000:36:54;812] SUPPORTERS OF THIS RESOLUTION
[000:36:57;815] ARE ABANDONING OUR
[000:36:58;883] CONSTITUTIONAL ROLE WHICH COULD
[000:37:00;084] HAVE A SIGNIFICANT LEGAL
[000:37:02;153] CONSEQUENCE DOWN THE ROAD.
[000:37:03;821] EVEN MORE IMPORTANTLY, RATHER
[000:37:05;990] THAN HELP TO HEAL A DIVIDED
[000:37:08;025] NATION, THE DEMOCRATS' EFFORTS
[000:37:10;928] WILL LIKELY DRIVE US EVEN
[000:37:12;063] FURTHER APART.
[000:37:14;966] INSTEAD, MR. SPEAKER, WE SHOULD
[000:37:15;700] BE TURNING OUR ATTENTION TOWARD
[000:37:18;069] UNITING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
[000:37:19;203] IT'S TIME FOR US TO TONE DOWN
[000:37:22;139] THE POLITICAL RHETORIC, TO WORK
[000:37:24;141] TOGETHER, TO SOLVE THE PROBLEMS
[000:37:26;177] THAT FACE OUR NATION.
[000:37:27;245] IT'S TIME FOR US TO PUT ASIDE
[000:37:28;379] OUR DIFFERENCES AND FIND COMMON
[000:37:30;548] GROUND.
[000:37:32;316] AFTER ALL, WE'RE ALL AMERICANS.
[000:37:34;352] I YIELD BACK.
[000:37:36;420] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE
[000:37:37;121] GENTLEMAN FROM OHIO RESERVES.
[000:37:40;491] MR. RASKIN.
[000:37:41;659] MR. RASKIN: I YIELD ONE MINUTE
[000:37:43;594] TO MR. SWALWELL OF CALIFORNIA.
[000:37:45;630] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE
[000:37:46;330] GENTLEMAN IS RECOGNIZED, HOW
[000:37:47;765] MUCH TIME?
[000:37:48;132] ONE MINUTE.
[000:37:49;700] MR. SWALWELL: ON JANUARY 6,
[000:37:50;768] DONALD TRUMP INCITED RADICALIZED
[000:37:54;805] TERRORISTS TO ATTACK THE CAPITOL
[000:37:57;842] AND STOP THE COUNTING OF THE
[000:37:59;844] ELECTORAL BALLOTS.
[000:38:00;978] DONALD TRUMP WON'T PROTECT OUR
[000:38:03;147] CONSTITUTION SO WE MUST DO SO.
[000:38:04;982] IT'S TIME FOR THE COUNTRY TO
[000:38:08;152] UNITE BUT UNITY STARTS WITH
[000:38:10;187] ACCOUNTABILITY, THAT STARTS IN
[000:38:12;189] THE PEOPLE'S HOUSE.
[000:38:14;158] LET'S START BY UNITING FOR THE
[000:38:19;230] SAFETY OF ALL AMERICANS.
[000:38:20;331] LET'S UNITE AGAINST A PRESIDENT
[000:38:23;200] WHOSE HATE SPEECH LED TO THE
[000:38:24;201] DEFENSE OF A LAW ENFORCEMENT
[000:38:26;437] OFFICER UNITE FOR THE COPS AND
[000:38:28;239] MILITARY WHO BRAVELY DEFENDED
[000:38:30;374] THE CAPITOL.
[000:38:31;342] LET'S UNITE AGAINST DONALD TRUMP
[000:38:33;411] WHO CONDITION SPIRE -- TERRORIST
[000:38:38;282] TEOSCARRY A CONFEDERATE FLAG
[000:38:40;651] INTO THIS FLAG AND DISPLAY A
[000:38:44;388] NOOSE, AND LET'S UNITE FOR THE
[000:38:47;391] JANITORIAL STAFF WHO CLEANED UP
[000:38:48;592] AFTER THESE WHITE SUPREMACISTS.
[000:38:51;696] THE MOST ESSENTIAL FUNCTION OF
[000:38:53;531] THE PRESIDENT IS TO PROTECT LIVE
[000:38:55;666] AND DEFEND LIBERTY.
[000:38:57;668] DONALD TRUMP HAS FAILED TO DO
[000:38:58;736] THAT AND IS FAILING TO DO THAT
[000:39:00;738] SO VICE PRESIDENT PENCE MUST
[000:39:01;806] INVOKE THE 25TH AMENDMENT.
[000:39:03;574] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE
[000:39:04;275] GENTLEMAN FROM OHIO.
[000:39:08;679] MR. YORDAN: MAY I INQUIRE HOW
[000:39:09;914] MUCH TIME EACH SIDE HAS.
[000:39:11;716] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE
[000:39:12;416] GENTLEMAN FROM OHIO HAS 16 1/2
[000:39:13;784] MINUTES REMAINING.
[000:39:18;823] THE GENTLEMAN FROM MARYLAND HAS
[000:39:20;891] 16 3/4 MINUTES REMAINING.
[000:39:23;928] THE GENTLEMAN FROM OHIO.
[000:39:25;963] MR. JORDAN: I YIELD THREE
[000:39:27;064] MINUTES TO THE GENTLEMAN FROM
[000:39:28;265] FLORIDA.
[000:39:28;999] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE
[000:39:29;700] GENTLEMAN IS RECOGNIZED.
[000:39:30;334] >> I WOULD BE REMISS IF I DIDN'T
[000:39:32;103] ADDRESS THE ATROCITIES OCCURRING
[000:39:34;271] HERE ON THE HOUSE FLOOR.
[000:39:35;272] A WEEK AGO THE BILLING WAS
[000:39:37;241] ATTACKED AND INSTEAD OF WORKING
[000:39:39;343] WITH REPUBLICANS TO KEEP THAT
[000:39:40;611] FROM HAPPENING AGAIN, THE
[000:39:42;213] SPEAKER AND HER COLLEAGUES THINK
[000:39:43;514] THE APPROPRIATE RESPONSE IS TO
[000:39:47;318] PREVENT PEOPLE EXERCISING THEIR
[000:39:49;420] SECOND AMENDMENT RIGHTS.
[000:39:50;421] THIS ATTACK DIDN'T COME FROM THE
[000:39:51;555] INSIDE IT CAME FROM THE OUTSIDE.
[000:39:53;591] TO RESPOND BY RESTRICTING
[000:39:55;493] MEMBER'S SECOND AMENDMENT RIGHTS
[000:39:56;627] IN THE INSTITUTION THAT'S
[000:39:57;628] SUPPOSED TO UPHOLD THOSE RIGHTS
[000:39:59;663] IS APPALLING.
[000:40:00;097] TAKE NOTE, AMERICA.
[000:40:01;565] THIS IS WHAT YOU HAVE TO LOOK
[000:40:02;700] FORWARD TO IN A JOE BIDEN
[000:40:04;602] ADMINISTRATION.
[000:40:05;069] IF THEY CAN DO IT RIGHT HERE IN
[000:40:06;637] THE PEOPLE'S HOUSE THEY WILL
[000:40:07;738] ATTEMPT TO DO IT ACROSS THE
[000:40:09;673] COUNTRY.
[000:40:10;007] THE PLAIN LANGUAGE OF THE 25TH
[000:40:11;041] AMENDMENT IS ABUNDANTLY CLEAR
[000:40:13;010] AND ALTHOUGH I AM AN ATTORNEY
[000:40:14;712] YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE AN ATTORNEY
[000:40:15;880] TO UNDERSTAND THAT THE VICE
[000:40:17;848] PRESIDENT IS THE PRINCIPAL
[000:40:19;817] REQUIRED TO INVOKE THE
[000:40:20;818] AMENDMENT.
[000:40:21;185] THE BEGINNING OF SECTION 4
[000:40:22;853] STATES, WHENEVER THE V.P. AND A
[000:40:26;891] MAJORITY OF EITHER EXECUTIVE
[000:40:31;996] BODY.
[000:40:32;296] YOU MUST HAVE THE VICE PRESIDENT
[000:40:33;431] INVOKING THIS AND YOU DON'T.
[000:40:35;132] THE VICE PRESIDENT HAS BEEN
[000:40:36;033] LEER.
[000:40:36;333] HE IS UNWILLING TO INVOKE THE
[000:40:37;301] 25TH AMENDMENT.
[000:40:38;235] IT'S NOT CONGRESS' ROLE TO
[000:40:41;138] OVERRIDE HIM.
[000:40:42;273] IT DOESN'T SAY THAT CONGRESS
[000:40:44;408] MAKES THAT DETERMINATION.
[000:40:45;409] THE VICE PRESIDENT DOES.
[000:40:46;010] BUT MY DEMOCRAT IG COLLEAGUES
[000:40:47;278] WILL STOP AT NOTHING TO REMOVE
[000:40:48;479] THIS PRESIDENT EVEN A WEEK
[000:40:49;513] BEFORE HIS TERM EXPIRES.
[000:40:51;549] THE PLAIN READING OF THE 25TH
[000:40:53;417] AMENDMENT DEMN STRAITS THIS IS
[000:40:54;585] THE WRONG APPROACH.
[000:40:55;453] AN UNDERSTANDING OF LAST WEEK'S
[000:40:57;588] EVENTS DEMN STRAIT THIS IS A
[000:40:59;657] WRONG APPROACH.
[000:41:01;659] AND A LOOK AT THE TACTICS WE
[000:41:04;595] HAVE SEEN TELL US THIS IS A
[000:41:07;565] DISINGENUOUS APPROACH AT BEST
[000:41:08;833] AND POLITICALLY MOTED.
[000:41:10;668] I WAS ELECTED IN 2018 MY ENTIRE
[000:41:13;604] CONGRESSIONAL CAREER HAS BEEN
[000:41:14;638] CONSUMED BY IMPEACHING OR
[000:41:15;906] REMOVING PRESIDENT TRUMP.
[000:41:16;774] AFTER THE RUSSIA COLLUSION HOAX
[000:41:18;809] AND A PHONE CALL WITH THE
[000:41:20;845] UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT AND A FAILED
[000:41:23;781] IMPEACHMENT ATTEMPT THAT
[000:41:24;815] RESULTED IN ACQUITTAL HERE WE
[000:41:25;883] ARE, A LITTLE MORE THAN A WEEK
[000:41:26;984] AWAY FROM A NEW PRESIDENT BEING
[000:41:28;853] SWORN IN, ATTEMPTING TO TRAVESTY
[000:41:31;288] TO THE CONSTITUTION AND TO
[000:41:32;223] AMERICA AS A WHOLE.
[000:41:33;924] THIS IS DANGEROUS,
[000:41:34;992] UNCONSTITUTIONAL AND DOES
[000:41:36;126] NOTHING TO HEAL THIS COUNTRY.
[000:41:38;028] AND MOVE THIS COUNTRY FORWARD.
[000:41:42;032] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE
[000:41:43;067] GENTLEMAN FROM OHIO RESERVES.
[000:41:45;269] THE GENTLEMAN FROM MARYLAND.
[000:41:47;137] MR. RASKIN: I YIELD ONE MINUTE
[000:41:49;139] TO REPRESENTATIVE GARCIA OF
[000:41:50;574] TEXAS.
[000:41:51;175] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE
[000:41:51;876] GENTLELADY IS RECOGNIZED FOR ONE
[000:41:54;211] MINUTE.
[000:41:54;545] MS. GARCIA: THANK YOU, MR.
[000:41:55;312] SPEAKER.
[000:41:55;646] I STAND BEFORE THE HOUSE FLOOR
[000:41:56;447] TODAY ALARMED.
[000:41:58;249] ALARMED THAT JUST DAYS AGO, A
[000:42:01;318] SITTING PRESIDENT STIRRED UP A
[000:42:03;354] DEADLY ATTACK ON OUR U.S.
[000:42:04;522] CAPITOL.
[000:42:05;389] I JOIN MY COLLEAGUES IN CALLING
[000:42:08;526] ON VICE PRESIDENT PENCE TO
[000:42:10;461] ACTIVATE SECTION 4 OF THE 25TH
[000:42:11;529] AMENDMENT.
[000:42:13;497] IT HAS BECOME ABUNDANTLY CLEAR
[000:42:15;566] THAT THIS PRESIDENT HAS
[000:42:16;567] THREATENED OUR DEMOCRATIC
[000:42:18;769] SYSTEM, HAS INTERFERED WITH THE
[000:42:20;671] PEACEFUL TRANSITION OF POWER AND
[000:42:22;740] IS -- AND HAS ENDANGERED AN
[000:42:24;808] EQUAL BRANCH OF GOVERNMENT.
[000:42:26;010] THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
[000:42:27;878] STATES IS UNHINGED, UNFIT, AND
[000:42:31;015] UNSTABLE.
[000:42:32;850] OR AS WE SAY IN MY DISTRICT,
[000:42:36;921] [SPEAKING SPANISH]
[000:42:37;421] .
[000:42:38;923] TO THE POINT WHERE HE'S WILLING
[000:42:40;157] TO TEAR OUR DEMOCRACY DOWN,
[000:42:41;992] UNLESS HE PREPRE-VAILS IN HIS
[000:42:43;994] QUEST TO OVERTURN THE ELECTION
[000:42:45;396] THAT HE CLEARLY LOST.
[000:42:48;132] THE ACTIONS TAKEN BY THIS
[000:42:51;268] PRESIDENT AND THOSE WHO ENABLE
[000:42:53;370] HIM SHOW THAT HE IS UNFIT TO
[000:42:56;373] UPHOLD THE DUTIES OF HIS OFFICE.
[000:42:58;375] FOR THE SAKE OF OUR NATION'S
[000:43:01;445] SECURITY, THIS PRESIDENT MUST BE
[000:43:03;480] SWIFTLY REMOVED.
[000:43:05;482] MR. SPEAKER, DEMOCRACY IS A GIFT
[000:43:07;618] ONE GENERATION GIVES TO THE
[000:43:09;653] NEXT.
[000:43:09;954] WE MUST DEFEND IT.
[000:43:10;721] THANK YOU AND I YIELD BACK.
[000:43:12;590] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE
[000:43:13;624] GENTLELADY YIELDS BACK.
[000:43:14;825] THE GENTLEMAN FROM HI.
[000:43:16;627] MR. JORDAN: I YIELD A MINUTE AND
[000:43:17;995] A HALF TO THE GENTLELADY FROM
[000:43:19;730] COLORADO, MRS. BOEBERT.
[000:43:20;731] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE
[000:43:21;432] GENTLELADY IS RECOGNIZED FOR ONE
[000:43:22;800] AND A HALF MINUTES.
[000:43:24;868] MRS. BOEBERT: I RISE TODAY TO
[000:43:25;869] OPPOSE YET ANOTHER DEMOCRAT
[000:43:27;171] WITCH HUNT.
[000:43:28;973] WE SHOULD TAKE DEMOCRATS AT
[000:43:30;240] THEIR WORD WHEN THEY SAY NEVER
[000:43:32;176] LET A GOOD CRISIS GO TO WASTE.
[000:43:35;079] SECTION 4 OF THE 25TH AMENDMENT
[000:43:37;281] HAS NEVER BEEN USED, A PLAIN
[000:43:41;185] READING OF THE TEXT COUPLED WITH
[000:43:43;220] THE CONTEXT OF ITS RATIFICATION
[000:43:45;422] CONTEMPLATES A VERY DIFFERENT
[000:43:46;457] SCENARIO FROM THE ONE WE'RE
[000:43:48;258] CURRENTLY.
[000:43:48;626] IN IT ENVISIONS A PRESIDENT'S
[000:43:50;527] DISABILITY, RESULTING IN SERIOUS
[000:43:52;329] ILLNESS TO INJURY.
[000:43:53;564] TO SUGGEST IT SHOULD BE USED IN
[000:43:55;532] A DIFFERENT CONTEXT VIOLATES THE
[000:43:57;635] VERY INTENT OF THE 25TH
[000:43:58;502] AMENDMENT.
[000:43:59;470] TO BE CLEAR, THIS RESOLUTION IS
[000:44:02;840] A DIVISIVE, POLITICAL STUNT
[000:44:05;709] WHICH HAS -- WHICH WOULD HAVE NO
[000:44:07;745] FORCE OF LAW AND IS A WASTE OF
[000:44:09;880] OUR TIME.
[000:44:12;750] MR. SPEAKER, THIS RESOLUTION IS
[000:44:13;751] A CLEAR OVERREACH OF INVOKE --
[000:44:16;987] AS INVOKING 25TH AMENDMENT IS
[000:44:19;890] NOT SOMETHING CONGRESS CAN
[000:44:21;158] INITIATE.
[000:44:21;525] IT MUST BE INITIATED BY THE
[000:44:23;193] EXECUTIVE BRANCH.
[000:44:24;094] DEMOCRATS TALK ABOUT UNITY BUT
[000:44:25;963] CLEARLY THAT'S JUST TALK AS
[000:44:27;131] THEIR ACTIONS ONLY FURTHER
[000:44:28;999] DIVIDE US.
[000:44:30;000] THEIR HYPOCRISY IS ON FULL
[000:44:31;168] DISPLAY THIS WEEK.
[000:44:32;136] WITH THE 25TH AMENDMENT STUNT,
[000:44:34;238] ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT,SEN SURE
[000:44:36;540] BILLS AND OTHER EFFORTS TO TRY
[000:44:38;242] TO PUNISH REPUBLICANS FOR FALSE
[000:44:41;278] ACCUSATIONS OF INCITING THE TYPE
[000:44:42;546] OF VIOLENCE THEY HAVE STOKED
[000:44:44;448] FREQUENTLY AND TRANSPARENTLY
[000:44:47;351] SUPPORTED IN THE PAST,
[000:44:48;352] THROUGHOUT 2020 WE WITNESSED
[000:44:50;421] DEMOCRATS WELCOME, ENCOURAGE AND
[000:44:54;391] EVEN NORMALIZE VIOLENCE. FOR TH
[000:45:00;297] VIOLENCE RIOTS WERE EFFECTIVE
[000:45:01;398] IN ADVANCING THEIR AGENDA.
[000:45:04;168] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE
[000:45:05;302] GENTLELADY'S TIME HAS EXPIRED.
[000:45:06;003] THE GENTLEMAN FROM OHIO
[000:45:07;237] RESERVES.
[000:45:08;238] THE GENTLEMAN FROM MARYLAND.
[000:45:09;206] MR. JORDAN: YEAH, WE RESERVE.
[000:45:11;275] MR. RASKIN: MR. SPEAKER, THE
[000:45:12;576] GENTLELADY, WHOM I'VE NOT HAD
[000:45:15;312] THE MEASURE TO MEET YET,
[000:45:17;481] CONFUSES THE TWO THINGS.
[000:45:19;450] FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT HAD A
[000:45:20;451] DISABILITY.
[000:45:21;351] HE WAS ONE OF OUR GREATEST
[000:45:22;352] PRESIDENTS.
[000:45:23;387] PRESIDENT LINCOLN SUFFERED FROM
[000:45:24;621] DEPRESSION BUT HE WAS ONE OF
[000:45:26;457] OUR GREATEST PRESIDENT IS --
[000:45:28;492] PRESIDENTS.
[000:45:28;892] INCAPACITY IS SOMETHING
[000:45:29;526] DIFFERENT.
[000:45:29;893] IT'S DEMONSTRATED BY PRESIDENT
[000:45:31;662] TRUMP'S COMPLETE TOTAL
[000:45:33;497] INABILITY TO CONFORM HIS
[000:45:34;698] CONDUCT TO THE RULE OF LAW AND
[000:45:35;666] THE CONSTITUTION.
[000:45:36;734] I YIELD ONE MINUTE TO
[000:45:38;569] REPRESENTATIVE MCBATH.
[000:45:40;537] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE
[000:45:41;238] GENTLELADY FROM GEORGIA IS
[000:45:41;905] RECOGNIZED FOR ONE MINUTE.
[000:45:42;606] MRS. MCBATH: THANK YOU, MR.
[000:45:43;874] SPEAKER.
[000:45:44;641] I CAME TO CONGRESS TO MAKE SURE
[000:45:46;677] THAT NO PARENT EVER EXPERIENCED
[000:45:47;878] THE PAIN THAT I HAVE.
[000:45:49;880] I CAME TO CONGRESS TO FIGHT FOR
[000:45:53;884] CHILDREN WHO PRACTICE ACTIVE
[000:45:56;820] SHOOTER DRILLS AT THE SAME TIME
[000:45:58;822] THEY'RE LEARNING HOW TO READ.
[000:45:59;957] FOR FAMILIES WHO HAVE LOST
[000:46:01;125] LOVED ONES TO GUN VIOLENCE.
[000:46:03;026] AND FOR COMMUNITIES THAT WILL
[000:46:04;862] NEVER, EVER BE THE SAME.
[000:46:07;898] LAST WEDNESDAY MEMBERS OF THIS
[000:46:10;901] BODY HID FROM INSURRECTIONISTS
[000:46:13;203] BEHIND BARRICADES AND LOCKED
[000:46:15;072] DOORS.
[000:46:16;940] STAFFERS OF THIS HALLOWED
[000:46:18;108] INSTITUTION TEXTED TO THEIR
[000:46:19;977] LOVED ONES, THEY'RE BANGING ON
[000:46:23;213] THE DOORS OUTSIDE, I LOVE YOU.
[000:46:25;015] AND CITIZENS OF THIS NATION
[000:46:28;018] WATCHED IN REAL-TIME AS RIOTERS
[000:46:31;054] STORMED THE CAPITOL THROUGH
[000:46:32;089] SHATTERED WINDOWS AND BROKEN
[000:46:34;258] GLASS.
[000:46:35;092] THE RESULT OF THE PRESIDENT'S
[000:46:38;128] RHETORIC HAS LEFT FIVE
[000:46:40;264] AMERICANS DEAD.
[000:46:42;166] OUR RESPONSE TO ANYONE WHO
[000:46:44;134] SEEKS TO OVERTHROW THE WILL OF
[000:46:46;203] THE PEOPLE MUST BE UNWAVERING
[000:46:48;305] AND RESOLUTE.
[000:46:50;140] I DIDN'T COME TO CONGRESS TO DO
[000:46:53;143] THIS.
[000:46:53;443] BUT PRESIDENT TRUMP'S ACTIONS
[000:46:56;146] WARRANT HIS IMMEDIATE REMOVAL
[000:46:56;847] FROM OFFICE.
[000:46:58;148] AND I YIELD BACK THE BALANCE OF
[000:46:59;616] MY TIME.
[000:46:59;950] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE
[000:47:00;651] GENTLELADY YIELDS BACK THE
[000:47:01;318] BALANCE OF HER TIME.
[000:47:01;852] THE GENTLEMAN FROM MARYLAND
[000:47:02;553] RESERVES.
[000:47:02;920] THE GENTLEMAN FROM OHIO.
[000:47:03;520] MR. JORDAN: I YIELD A MINUTE
[000:47:04;254] AND A HALF TO THE GENTLEMAN
[000:47:04;955] FROM TEXAS, MR. FALLON.
[000:47:05;622] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE
[000:47:06;323] GENTLEMAN FROM TEXAS IS
[000:47:06;924] RECOGNIZED FOR 1 1/2 MINUTES.
[000:47:08;358] MR. FALLON: THANK YOU, MR.
[000:47:09;426] SPEAKER.
[000:47:09;760] I RISE TODAY AGAINST -- TO
[000:47:10;627] SPEAK AGAINST THIS RESOLUTION.
[000:47:11;662] I'M AT A LOSS.
[000:47:13;463] I CAN'T BELIEVE THE VERY FIRST
[000:47:15;599] TIME THAT I HAVE THE HONOR AND
[000:47:18;402] PRIVILEGE TO ADDRESS THIS
[000:47:20;404] AUGUST CHAMBER IS TO TALK ABOUT
[000:47:21;572] REMOVING THE PRESIDENT OF THE
[000:47:23;540] UNITED STATES BECAUSE HE HELD A
[000:47:26;510] PERMITTED LEGAL AND PEACEFUL
[000:47:28;712] RALLY.
[000:47:29;012] IT'S NOTHING BUT A WASTEFUL
[000:47:31;582] POLITICAL GRANDSTAND.
[000:47:32;783] LET'S MAKE NO MISTAKE.
[000:47:34;551] JANUARY 6 WAS A DARK DAY IN OUR
[000:47:36;687] ESTEEMED NATION'S HISTORY.
[000:47:38;589] IT WAS A DARK AND SAD DAY.
[000:47:40;657] ON THE AFTERNOON OF JANUARY 6,
[000:47:42;759] A MOB BREACHED OUR SING A RED
[000:47:45;729] CAPITOL -- OUR SACRED CAPITOL.
[000:47:48;732] DONALD TRUMP DID DIDN'T --
[000:47:50;834] DONALD TRUMP DIDN'T.
[000:47:51;969] A MOB RAN AMOK ON THESE GROUNDS
[000:47:55;038] BUT DONALD TRUMP DIDN'T.
[000:47:56;006] A MOB COMMITTED DESPICABLE AND
[000:47:58;909] EVIL ACTS OF VIOLENCE AGAINST
[000:48:00;043] FELLOW AMERICANS.
[000:48:00;944] BUT DONALD TRUMP DIDN'T.
[000:48:02;045] IN FACT, DONALD TRUMP URGED, IN
[000:48:03;981] FACT HE DEMANDED PEACEFUL
[000:48:06;116] DISSENT AND NOTHING MORE.
[000:48:07;217] OUR COLLEAGUES ON THE OTHER
[000:48:08;151] SIDE OF THE AISLE WANT US TO
[000:48:11;021] UNNECESSARILY REMOVE A
[000:48:12;089] PRESIDENT WHEN WE'RE MEASURING
[000:48:13;090] THE TIME HE HAS LEFT.
[000:48:14;291] NOT IN YEARS, MONTHS, WEEKS OR
[000:48:17;127] DAYS.
[000:48:17;427] HE'S GOT 182 HOURS LEFT IN
[000:48:20;130] OFFICE.
[000:48:20;464] YOU DON'T ACHIEVE UNITY BY
[000:48:22;199] SIMPLY SAYING IT.
[000:48:23;200] YOU ACHIEVE UNITY THROUGH
[000:48:25;135] ACTIONS.
[000:48:26;136] THIS RESOLUTION ACCOMPLISHES
[000:48:28;171] NOT UNITY, BUT RATHER IS A
[000:48:30;207] WASTE OF TIME AND FOSTERS
[000:48:32;376] FURTHER DIVISIVENESS.
[000:48:33;477] AND I'M GOING TO VOTE NO ON
[000:48:35;279] THIS RESOLUTION.
[000:48:35;746] I YIELD BACK.
[000:48:37;281] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE
[000:48:37;981] GENTLEMAN YIELDS BACK THE
[000:48:38;615] BALANCE OF HIS TIME.
[000:48:39;149] THE GENTLEMAN RESERVES THE
[000:48:39;816] BALANCE OF HIS TIME.
[000:48:40;350] THE GENTLEMAN FROM MARYLAND.
[000:48:41;351] MR. RASKIN: I YIELD TO
[000:48:42;486] REPRESENTATIVE NEGUSE FOR ONE
[000:48:43;420] MINUTE.
[000:48:43;754] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE
[000:48:44;454] GENTLEMAN FROM COLORADO IS
[000:48:45;122] RECOGNIZED FOR ONE MINUTE.
[000:48:46;390] MR. NEGUSE: MR. SPEAKER, I HAD
[000:48:47;491] PLANNED REMARKS HERE BUT I HAVE
[000:48:50;494] TO RESPOND TO MY COLLEAGUE, HIS
[000:48:53;397] WORDS ARE SIMPLE TOO MUCH TO
[000:48:54;464] BEAR.
[000:48:54;765] HE TALKS A LOT ABOUT THE MOB
[000:48:56;466] AND CULPABILITY.
[000:48:58;402] WHO SUMMONED THE MOB?
[000:49:00;404] WHO ENCOURAGED THE MOB?
[000:49:03;407] WHO INCITED THE MOB?
[000:49:06;443] YOU KNOW AS WELL AS I DO THAT
[000:49:09;546] THE PRESIDENT DID.
[000:49:11;481] I STOOD HERE SIX DAYS AGO IN
[000:49:14;484] THIS EXACT SAME SPOT AND I
[000:49:17;487] QUOTED LINCOLN'S ADMONITION
[000:49:18;822] THAT WE SHOULD NOBLY SAVE OR
[000:49:20;557] MEANLY LOSE THE LAST BEST HOPE
[000:49:22;492] OF EARTH.
[000:49:22;859] AND LESS THAN 10 MINUTES LATER,
[000:49:24;628] A VIOLENT MOB BREACHED THE
[000:49:25;762] CAPITOL, THE FIRST BREACH OF
[000:49:26;697] THIS HALLOWED BUILDING, THE
[000:49:28;765] CITADEL OF LIBERTY SINCE THE
[000:49:30;634] WAR OF 1812.
[000:49:33;603] THE CONGRESS MUST RESPOND.
[000:49:36;606] OUR UNDERTAKING HERE IS NOT
[000:49:38;642] ABOUT POLITICS.
[000:49:39;643] IT IS A MATTER OF CONSCIENCE.
[000:49:42;646] I SUPPORT THE DISTINGUISHED
[000:49:44;648] GENTLEMAN FROM MARYLAND'S
[000:49:45;816] RESOLUTION.
[000:49:47;651] I PRAY THAT THE VICE PRESIDENT
[000:49:49;653] WILL HONOR HIS OATH,
[000:49:51;688] RECONSIDER, AND INVOKE THE
[000:49:52;956] PROVISIONS OF THE 25TH
[000:49:54;858] AMENDMENT.
[000:49:55;225] I YIELD BACK.
[000:49:56;793] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE
[000:49:57;494] GENTLEMAN YIELDS BACK THE
[000:49:58;128] BALANCE OF HIS TIME.
[000:49:58;662] THE GENTLEMAN RESERVES THE
[000:49:59;329] BALANCE OF HIS TIME.
[000:49:59;863] THE GENTLEMAN FROM OHIO.
[000:50:00;464] MR. JORDAN: I YIELD THREE
[000:50:01;131] MINUTES TO THE GENTLEMAN FROM
[000:50:01;865] FLORIDA, MR. GAETZ.
[000:50:02;399] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE
[000:50:03;100] GENTLEMAN FROM FLORIDA, MR.
[000:50:03;767] GAETZ, IS RECOGNIZED FOR THREE
[000:50:04;935] MINUTES.
[000:50:05;268] MR. GAETZ: THANK YOU, MR.
[000:50:06;069] SPEAKER.
[000:50:06;403] THEY MAY BE CALLING ON THE VICE
[000:50:07;971] PRESIDENT, BUT BASED ON HIS
[000:50:08;939] LETTER, HE'S NOT ANSWERING.
[000:50:11;842] EVERYBODY IN THIS COUNTRY KNOWS
[000:50:12;809] THAT THEY WANT TO DO -- WANTED
[000:50:14;978] TO IMPEOPLE PRESIDENT TRUMP ON
[000:50:15;812] HIS FIRST DAY -- IMPEACH
[000:50:17;080] PRESIDENT TRUMP ON HIS FIRST
[000:50:18;015] DAY IN OFFICE.
[000:50:19;916] ALL HE DID IN THE MIDDLE WAS
[000:50:21;952] RESCUE OUR ECONOMY, REBUILD OUR
[000:50:23;954] MILITARY, REFORM THE V.A. AND
[000:50:25;956] REDUCE AMERICA'S INVOLVEMENT IN
[000:50:27;190] FOREIGN WARS.
[000:50:28;959] NOW, I JOIN THE BIPARTISAN
[000:50:30;994] CAUCUS CONDEMNING THE VIOLENCE
[000:50:32;396] THAT WE SAW AT OUR CAPITOL.
[000:50:34;164] BUT THE HYPOCRISY IS JUST DOWN
[000:50:36;266] RIGHT DISORIENTING.
[000:50:38;301] PRESIDENT TRUMP CALLED FOR
[000:50:40;137] PROTESTS THAT WOULD BE PEACEFUL
[000:50:41;338] AND PATRIOTIC.
[000:50:42;139] HE GOT LABELED A NATIONAL
[000:50:44;207] SECURITY THREAT.
[000:50:45;175] YET THE GENTLELADY FROM
[000:50:46;576] CALIFORNIA CAN CALL ON HER
[000:50:48;245] SUPPORTERS TO GET PHYSICAL AND
[000:50:49;646] IN THE FACES OF REPUBLICANS AND
[000:50:51;648] SHE GETS THE CHAIRMANSHIP OF
[000:50:52;649] THE FINANCIAL SERVICES
[000:50:54;551] COMMITTEE.
[000:50:54;918] REPUBLICAN MEMBERS OF CONGRESS
[000:50:57;387] UTILIZE A PROCESS CONTEMPLATED
[000:50:59;623] IN THE CONSTITUTION TO OFFER AN
[000:51:01;525] OBJECTION AND WE WERE LABELED
[000:51:04;394] SEDITIONISTS.
[000:51:04;828] DEMOCRAT MEMBERS OF CONGRESS
[000:51:06;463] RAISED FUNDS FOR GROUPS
[000:51:08;465] ATTACKING OUR POLICE, BURNING
[000:51:09;599] OUR CITIES, DESTROYING OUR
[000:51:12;436] BUSINESSES, ESTABLISHING
[000:51:13;670] AUTONOMOUS ZONES, AND THEY WERE
[000:51:16;440] CELEBRATED AS JUSTICE WARRIORS.
[000:51:18;508] WEDNESDAY THEY CALLED FOR
[000:51:19;576] UNITY.
[000:51:20;477] DEMOCRACY.
[000:51:20;844] AND HEALING.
[000:51:21;611] NOW JUST DAYS LATER, SEEKING
[000:51:23;613] POWER AND POLITICAL ADVANTAGE,
[000:51:25;682] THE DEMOCRATS HAVE REVERTED TO
[000:51:27;584] THE MEAN.
[000:51:28;552] THEY'VE GONE BACK TO THEIR
[000:51:29;753] NATURAL STATE.
[000:51:30;654] THE PARTY OF IMPEACHMENT,
[000:51:32;722] REMOVAL AND DIVISION.
[000:51:34;691] THEY'RE ABOUT TO HAVE UNIFIED
[000:51:36;593] CONTROL OF THE GOVERNMENT.
[000:51:37;794] MAYBE THEY'D USE THIS TIME TO
[000:51:39;629] PREVIEW AN AGENDA FOR THE
[000:51:40;730] AMERICAN PEOPLE.
[000:51:43;633] NOW, THE LAST TWO TIMES THE
[000:51:44;668] 25TH AMENDMENT WAS INVOKED, IT
[000:51:45;869] WAS TO FACILITATE A
[000:51:48;738] COLONOSCOPY.
[000:51:49;139] NOW THEY'RE USING IT TO
[000:51:50;807] FACILITATE A TRANSITION TO JOE
[000:51:52;909] BIDEN.
[000:51:53;810] HOW WEIRD.
[000:51:55;979] WHY?
[000:51:56;880] I'D CALL IT VIRTUE SIGNALING
[000:51:58;248] BUT THERE'S NO VIRTUE IN IT.
[000:51:59;983] THIS REMOVAL EFFORT ISN'T FOR
[000:52:01;952] AMERICA.
[000:52:02;285] IT'S FOR THEM.
[000:52:03;019] FOR THEIR ABILITY TO SHOWCASE
[000:52:05;088] AND WIELD POWER.
[000:52:06;156] AND WE SEE THE POWER OF
[000:52:07;991] CANCELLATION AND REMOVAL ON
[000:52:09;960] FULL DISPLAY IN AMERICA TODAY.
[000:52:12;963] "FORBES" MAGAZINE HAS CALLED
[000:52:14;164] FOR WHITE HOUSE OFFICIALS TO BE
[000:52:16;066] SHAMED AND UNEMPLOYABLE.
[000:52:17;300] ABC NEWS HAS CALLED FOR THE
[000:52:20;170] CLEANSING OF THE TRUMP
[000:52:20;770] MOVEMENT.
[000:52:21;138] I DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS,
[000:52:22;339] BUT TALKING ABOUT CLEANSING OUR
[000:52:24;341] FELLOW HUMAN BEINGS SURE IS
[000:52:27;277] SCARY.
[000:52:27;577] BIG TECH HAS DRIVEN CONSUMERS
[000:52:30;280] AND CONSERVATIVES OFF OF
[000:52:32;282] PLATFORMS AND THEN WHEN WE
[000:52:33;416] CREATED OUR OWN PLATFORM, IT
[000:52:35;385] WAS NUKED FROM THE INTERNET
[000:52:36;520] ALTOGETHER.
[000:52:38;455] THE GENTLELADY FROM NEW YORK
[000:52:39;156] WAS BOOTED FROM A HARVARD
[000:52:40;457] ADVISORY BOARD BECAUSE SHE TOOK
[000:52:42;459] AN ADVERSE POSITION ON ELECTORS
[000:52:44;494] THAT HAD BEEN TAKEN BY EVERY
[000:52:46;630] SINGLE MEMBER OF THE
[000:52:47;664] CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS IN
[000:52:50;634] 2001.
[000:52:51;635] CANCELLATIONS FOR SOME,
[000:52:52;736] CELEBRATIONS FOR OTHERS.
[000:52:54;771] FOR DOING THE EXACT SAME THING.
[000:52:58;708] THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
[000:52:59;943] STATES CAN'T TWEET OR POST ON
[000:53:01;745] FACEBOOK, BUT WE KNOW FROM
[000:53:04;714] PROJECT THAT THE PRINCIPAL
[000:53:06;082] COUNSEL FOR PBS CAN CALL FOR
[000:53:07;951] THE GOVERNMENT TO STEAL
[000:53:08;885] CHILDREN FROM REPUBLICANS AND
[000:53:11;054] THROW MOLOTOV COCKTAILS AT THE
[000:53:13;823] WHITE HOUSE.
[000:53:14;224] WE SHOULD ALLOW AMERICA TO HEAL
[000:53:16;893] BEFORE AMERICA IS LOST, BUT
[000:53:18;028] THAT IS NOT HAPPENING TODAY.
[000:53:19;930] I'D REQUEST 30 MORE SECONDS.
[000:53:21;998] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE
[000:53:22;699] GENTLEMAN IS GIVEN 30
[000:53:23;900] ADDITIONAL SECONDS.
[000:53:24;434] MR. GAETZ: THE DEAL NOW IS
[000:53:25;168] HOUSE DEMOCRATS JUST WANT IN ON
[000:53:27;003] THE ACT.
[000:53:27;337] THAT'S THE PURPOSE OF THE
[000:53:29;039] RESOLUTION TODAY.
[000:53:30;173] THEY WANT TO SHOW YOU THAT THEY
[000:53:32;209] CAN STILL TEAR THINGS DOWN.
[000:53:33;343] I GUESS OVER THE NEXT TWO
[000:53:35;178] YEARS, WE'LL SEE IF THEY'RE
[000:53:36;346] CAPABLE OF BUILDING ANYTHING OR
[000:53:38;248] ANYONE UP.
[000:53:39;282] THIS IS A DEEPLY UNPOPULAR
[000:53:42;319] IMPEACHMENT.
[000:53:42;719] THE PRESIDENT WISHES WE WERE
[000:53:43;587] HERE DEALING WITH CORONAVIRUS,
[000:53:46;590] NOT THE VIRUS OF TRUMP HATRED
[000:53:48;491] THAT YOU SEEM TO HAVE FOUND NO
[000:53:50;427] VACCINE FOR.
[000:53:50;827] I YIELD BACK.
[000:53:52;429] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE
[000:53:53;530] GENTLEMAN YIELDS BACK THE
[000:53:54;164] BALANCE OF HIS TIME.
[000:53:54;698] THE GENTLEMAN FROM OHIO
[000:53:55;332] RESERVES.
[000:53:57;500] THE GENTLEMAN FROM MARYLAND IS
[000:53:58;235] NOW RECOGNIZED.
[000:54:01;571] MR. RASKIN: THANK YOU VERY
[000:54:02;672] MUCH, MR. SPEAKER.
[000:54:03;573] I HEARD ONE OF OUR COLLEAGUES
[000:54:05;041] SAY IT WAS THE FAULT OF THE
[000:54:06;776] MOB, NOT DONALD TRUMP.
[000:54:08;845] BUT WHO SUMMONED THE MOB?
[000:54:10;614] WHO CREATED THE MOB?
[000:54:11;681] WHO ASSEMBLED IT?
[000:54:12;849] YOU DON'T HAVE TO TRUST US IF
[000:54:14;651] YOU DON'T LIKE WHAT YOU CALL
[000:54:16;653] DEMOCRAT MEMBERS -- WE DO
[000:54:18;755] PREFER DEMOCRATIC MEMBERS, FOR
[000:54:19;956] THE NEW ONES, BUT HOW ABOUT
[000:54:22;792] THIS.
[000:54:23;093] LISTEN TO THE CHAIR OF YOUR OWN
[000:54:24;961] CONFERENCE.
[000:54:25;829] THE CHAIR OF THE REPUBLICAN
[000:54:26;830] CONFERENCE, LIZ CHENEY, SAID,
[000:54:28;932] THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
[000:54:30;133] STATES SUMMONED THIS MOB.
[000:54:32;902] ASSEMBLED THE MOB.
[000:54:33;970] AND LIT THE FLAME OF THIS
[000:54:35;905] ATTACK.
[000:54:36;239] EVERYTHING THAT FOLLOWED WAS
[000:54:38;074] HIS DOING, NONE OF THIS WOULD
[000:54:39;342] HAVE HAPPENED WITHOUT THE
[000:54:41;044] PRESIDENT.
[000:54:41;411] SO, YOU CAN HATE THE DEMOCRAT
[000:54:43;046] MEMBERS ALL YOU WANT, THAT IS
[000:54:44;214] THE CHAIR OF THE REPUBLICAN
[000:54:46;082] CONFERENCE, MR. SPEAKER.
[000:54:46;683] I YIELD ONE MINUTE TO MRS.
[000:54:49;185] MALONEY.
[000:54:49;519] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE
[000:54:50;220] GENTLELADY FROM NEW YORK, MRS.
[000:54:52;188] MALONEY, THE CHAIR OF THE
[000:54:53;189] GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE,
[000:54:53;923] IS RECOGNIZED.
[000:54:55;058] MRS. MALONEY: THANK YOU, MR.
[000:54:56;393] SPEAKER.
[000:54:56;726] LIKE ALL OF US IN THIS CHAMBER,
[000:54:59;262] THE VICE PRESIDENT AND THE
[000:55:01;197] CABINET SWORE IN THEIR OATHS OF
[000:55:03;133] OFFICE TO PROTECT AND DEFEND
[000:55:05;268] THE CONSTITUTION FROM ENEMIES,
[000:55:07;137] FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC.
[000:55:09;205] NOW THEY MUST FULFILL THAT OATH
[000:55:11;207] BY INVOKING THE 25TH AMENDMENT.
[000:55:14;244] DONALD TRUMP'S RECKLESS ACTIONS
[000:55:15;512] ON AND LEADING TO JANUARY 6
[000:55:18;281] UNDERSCORE THAT HE'S A CLEAR
[000:55:19;516] AND PRESENT DANGER TO OUR
[000:55:22;419] DEMOCRATIC TRADITIONS.
[000:55:24;321] HE REPEATEDLY AND BLATANTLY
[000:55:26;556] LIED, SPOUTING BASELESS CLAIMS
[000:55:28;391] OF A STOLEN ELECTION AND FRAUD.
[000:55:30;493] HE CALLED ON HIS SUPPORTERS TO
[000:55:32;696] COME TO D.C. ON JANUARY 6, A
[000:55:34;698] DAY WHICH HE SAID, I QUOTE,
[000:55:37;500] WILL BE WILD, END QUOTE.
[000:55:38;601] AND WILLFULLY INCITED AN ARMED
[000:55:40;537] AND DEADLY INSURRECTION AGAINST
[000:55:42;872] ANOTHER BRANCH OF OUR
[000:55:43;606] GOVERNMENT.
[000:55:44;541] PRESIDENT TRUMP MUST BE HELD
[000:55:46;643] ACCOUNTABLE AND WE MUST RETURN
[000:55:48;545] TO THE PEACEFUL TRANSFER OF
[000:55:50;780] POWER.
[000:55:51;548] I URGE A YES VOTE AND I YIELD
[000:55:53;783] BACK.
[000:55:54;084] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE
[000:55:55;685] GENTLELADY YIELDS BACK THE
[000:55:56;353] BALANCE OF HER TIME.
[000:55:56;886] THE GENTLEMAN FROM MARYLAND
[000:55:57;587] RESERVES.
[000:55:57;987] THE GENTLEMAN FROM OHIO.
[000:55:58;588] MR. JORDAN: MR. SPEAKER, WE
[000:55:59;656] WOULD RESERVE.
[000:56:00;090] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE
[000:56:00;790] GENTLEMAN RESERVES THE BALANCE
[000:56:01;524] OF HIS TIME.
[000:56:01;925] THE GENTLEMAN FROM MARYLAND.
[000:56:02;592] MR. RASKIN: I YIELD TO MR.
[000:56:03;293] CLYBURN FOR ONE MINUTE.
[000:56:04;794] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE
[000:56:05;495] GENTLEMAN FROM SOUTH CAROLINA,
[000:56:06;229] MR. CLYBURN, THE MAJORITY WHIP,
[000:56:07;263] IS RECOGNIZED.
[000:56:09;766] MR. CLYBURN: THANK YOU VERY
[000:56:10;867] MUCH, MR. SPEAKER.
[000:56:11;368] I RISE IN SUPPORT OF THIS
[000:56:13;937] RESOLUTION.
[000:56:14;871] IN RECENT DAYS, IT HAS BECOME
[000:56:17;974] INDISPUTABLE THAT THIS
[000:56:19;042] PRESIDENT IS UNABLE TO UPHOLD
[000:56:21;878] HIS OATH TO PRESERVE, PROTECT
[000:56:24;047] AND DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION.
[000:56:25;915] ON THE CONTRARY.
[000:56:27;951] HE SEEMS ONLY CAPABLE OF
[000:56:30;019] ATTACKING THE CONSTITUTION.
[000:56:33;056] NEVER BEFORE HAS A PRESIDENT
[000:56:35;058] SOUGHT TO OVERTURN A FAIR AND
[000:56:37;127] SECURE ELECTION, THREATENING
[000:56:40;096] STATE OFFICIALS TO MANUFACTURE
[000:56:43;299] FRAUDULENT VOTES.
[000:56:44;234] NEVER BEFORE HAS A PRESIDENT
[000:56:47;137] INCITED MOB VIOLENCE TO BLOCK
[000:56:52;275] CERTIFICATION OF HIS OPPONENT'S
[000:56:55;278] VICTORY.
[000:56:55;612] NEVER BEFORE HAS THE PRESIDENT
[000:56:57;480] REFUSED TO CONDEMN AND DEMAND
[000:57:00;383] THE CESSATION OF AN ATTACK ON
[000:57:03;286] OUR COUNTRY.
[000:57:05;321] THE DEVASTATING BRUISES ON OUR
[000:57:07;457] NATION'S SOUL CAN ONLY BEGIN TO
[000:57:09;526] HEAL BY REMOVING THE WEAPON
[000:57:12;495] USED TO BLUDGEON US.
[000:57:14;431] THE VICE PRESIDENT MUST INVOKE
[000:57:15;565] THE 25TH AMENDMENT TO
[000:57:19;502] IMMEDIATELY REMOVE POWER FROM
[000:57:22;505] THIS DANGEROUS PRESIDENT.
[000:57:23;840] AND IF HE DOESN'T, WE MUST VOTE
[000:57:27;510] TO IMPEACH.
[000:57:27;911] I YIELD BACK.
[000:57:29;546] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE
[000:57:30;246] GENTLEMAN YIELDS BACK THE
[000:57:30;880] BALANCE OF HIS TIME.
[000:57:31;514] THE GENTLEMAN RESERVES THE
[000:57:32;182] BALANCE OF HIS TIME.
[000:57:32;715] THE GENTLEMAN FROM OHIO, MR.
[000:57:33;716] JORDAN.
[000:57:34;551] THE GENTLEMAN RESERVES THE
[000:57:35;218] BALANCE OF HIS TIME.
[000:57:36;619] MR. RASKIN, YOU MAY PROCEED.
[000:57:37;754] MR. RASKIN: I YIELD ONE MINUTE
[000:57:39;722] TO MR. KRISHNAMOORTHI FROM
[000:57:41;157] ILLINOIS.
[000:57:41;758] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE
[000:57:42;459] GENTLEMAN FROM ILLINOIS IS
[000:57:43;126] RECOGNIZED FOR ONE MINUTE.
[000:57:43;860] MR. KRISHNAMOORTHI: MR.
[000:57:44;461] SPEAKER, I'M SO GLAD OUR
[000:57:45;795] FRIENDS HAVE CHANGED THEIR
[000:57:47;831] MANTRA FROM STOP THE STEAL TO
[000:57:49;866] START TO HEAL.
[000:57:50;967] BUT IN ORDER TO HEAL, YOU HAVE
[000:57:52;936] TO TAKE STRONG MEDICINE, AND
[000:57:54;904] THAT MEDICINE HAPPENS TO BE THE
[000:57:56;906] TRUTH.
[000:57:57;807] MY FRIENDS, THE TRUTH IS,
[000:57:59;943] UNFORTUNATELY THIS PRESIDENT IS
[000:58:00;910] NO LONGER FIT TO SERVE.
[000:58:03;913] WE CANNOT TRUST THIS PRESIDENT
[000:58:06;082] TO PROTECT AMERICAN DEMOCRACY
[000:58:07;951] AFTER HE ENCOURAGED HIS
[000:58:09;953] SUPPORTERS TO QUOTE-UNQUOTE
[000:58:11;955] FIGHT LIKE HELL IN STORMING THE
[000:58:13;957] CAPITOL.
[000:58:14;290] WE CANNOT TRUST THEM TO PROTECT
[000:58:17;126] AMERICAN SAFETY AFTER HE TOLD
[000:58:19;162] THESE VIOLENT SEDITIONISTS
[000:58:20;363] THAT, QUOTE, WE LOVE YOU,
[000:58:22;332] YOU'RE VERY SPECIAL, CLOSED
[000:58:25;368] QUOTE.
[000:58:25;668] WE CANNOT TRUST THIS PRESIDENT
[000:58:28;438] TO TELL RIGHT FROM WRONG, EVEN
[000:58:30;340] TODAY.
[000:58:31;241] WHEN HE SAID THAT HIS REMARKS
[000:58:33;376] ON JANUARY 6 WERE,
[000:58:36;246] QUOTE-UNQUOTE, TOTALLY
[000:58:37;380] APPROPRIATE.
[000:58:39;282] MR. SPEAKER, WE CANNOT TRUST
[000:58:41;551] THIS PRESIDENT TO PROTECT US
[000:58:44;387] WHEN HE INSTIGATED A MOB THAT
[000:58:48;424] TRIED TO KILL US.
[000:58:49;492] I YIELD BACK.
[000:58:51;494] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE
[000:58:52;195] GENTLEMAN YIELDS BACK THE
[000:58:52;829] BALANCE OF HIS TIME.
[000:58:53;363] THE GENTLEMAN RESERVES THE
[000:58:54;030] BALANCE OF HIS TIME.
[000:58:54;564] MR. JORDAN: RESERVE.
[000:58:56;499] WE RESERVE.
[000:58:56;900] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE
[000:58:57;634] GENTLEMAN RESERVES THE BALANCE
[000:58:58;368] OF HIS TIME.
[000:58:58;768] THE GENTLEMAN FROM MARYLAND.
[000:58:59;569] MR. RASKIN: I YIELD 45 SECONDS
[000:59:00;737] TO MR. SOTO FROM FLORIDA.
[000:59:02;739] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE
[000:59:03;439] GENTLEMAN IS RECOGNIZED FOR 45
[000:59:07;710] SECONDS.
[000:59:08;044] THE GENTLEMAN IS RECOGNIZED.
[000:59:08;811] MR. SOTO: MR. SPEAKER, I WAS IN
[000:59:10;680] THE GALLERY RIGHT BEHIND US
[000:59:11;915] WHEN THE CAPITOL WAS BREACHED.
[000:59:14;617] THEN DOMESTIC TERRORISTS
[000:59:16;686] BREACHED THE ROTUNDA.
[000:59:17;887] I HEARD THE LOUD SOUNDS OF
[000:59:21;724] GUNSHOTS THROUGH THIS SACRED
[000:59:23;860] CHAMBER AND MY LAST IMAGES WERE
[000:59:26;796] BRAVE CAPITOL POLICE, GUNS
[000:59:28;831] DRAWN TO PROTECT US.
[000:59:30;700] THIS WAS THE
[000:59:34;470] THIS WAS THE FIRST ARMED
[000:59:36;506] INSURRECTION IN 00 YEARS.
[000:59:38;541] WHO INCITED THIS INSURRECTION?
[000:59:41;778] DONALD J. TRUMP.
[000:59:43;646] OUR RESOLUTION STATES THESE
[000:59:44;814] PROTESTS WERE ENCOURAGED BY HIM.
[000:59:46;816] HE URGED MILLIONS OF HIS
[000:59:48;751] FOLLOWERS TO COME AND STOP THE
[000:59:49;752] STEAL, WHICH IS A LIE, AND LET'S
[000:59:52;922] SAY NOW FOR THE RECORD AND FOR
[000:59:54;123] THE AGES, JOE BIDEN WON.
[000:59:56;960] FOR THIS HIGH CRIME, NEARLY
[000:59:58;928] RIPPING OUR COUNTRY ABACK, WE
[001:00:00;964] SHOULD BE REMOVING HIM BY THE
[001:00:01;998] 25TH AMENDMENT OR HE SHOULD BE
[001:00:03;299] IMPEACHED.
[001:00:06;035] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE
[001:00:07;103] GENTLEMAN FROM MARYLAND
[001:00:08;071] RESERVES.
[001:00:09;105] THE GENTLEMAN FROM OHIO.
[001:00:10;206] MR. JORDAN: RESERVE.
[001:00:11;107] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE
[001:00:11;808] GENTLEMAN FROM MARYLAND.
[001:00:13;109] MR. RASKIN: I YIELD TO THE
[001:00:16;312] DISTINGUISHED CONGRESS LADY FROM
[001:00:17;213] CALIFORNIA, MS. WATERS.
[001:00:18;348] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE
[001:00:19;048] GENTLELADY IS RECOGNIZED.
[001:00:23;419] MS. WATERS: --
[001:00:27;490] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: HOW
[001:00:28;524] MUCH TIME ARE YOU YIELDING?
[001:00:30;627] THE GENTLEMAN YIELDS TO THE
[001:00:31;728] GENTLELADY ONE MINUTE.
[001:00:34;631] MS. WATERS: --
[001:00:41;638] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE
[001:00:42;338] GENTLELADY IS NOW RECOGNIZED FOR
[001:00:43;640] ONE MINUTE.
[001:00:44;674] MS. WATERS: MR. SPEAKER, ON
[001:00:47;010] JANUARY 6, 2021, DOMESTIC
[001:00:50;880] TERRORISTS THE PRESIDENT HAS
[001:00:52;115] EMPOWERED FOR YEARS STORMED THE
[001:00:55;051] CAPITOL, DESECRATED THE PEOPLE'S
[001:00:57;186] HOUSE, AND THREATENED THE LIVES
[001:00:59;188] OF THE SPEAKER, VICE PRESIDENT,
[001:01:01;424] AND COUNTLESS OTHER MEMBERS AND
[001:01:02;492] STAFF.
[001:01:03;192] NONE OF US WILL EVER FORGET THAT
[001:01:07;196] DAY, THE INVASION OF THE CAPITOL
[001:01:09;232] WAS NOT ONLY FORESEEABLE, IT WAS
[001:01:12;268] INEVITABLE BECAUSE OF THE MANY
[001:01:14;303] YEARS THE PRESIDENT HAS SPENT
[001:01:16;339] FANNING THE FLAMES OF HATRED AND
[001:01:18;541] RACISM IN OUR COUNTRY.
[001:01:20;443] THE FACTS ARE CLEAR.
[001:01:21;611] THE PRESIDENT RALLY HIS
[001:01:23;579] SUPPORTERS AT THE WHITE HOUSE
[001:01:24;714] AND THEN SENT THEM TO THE
[001:01:27;517] CAPITOL TO DISRUPT OUR DEMOCRACY
[001:01:29;585] AND OVERTURN AN ELECTION.
[001:01:31;754] I WON'T SPEND ANOTHER SECOND
[001:01:33;589] EXPLAINING WHY DONALD TRUMP
[001:01:34;891] SHOULD HAVE LONG AGO BEEN
[001:01:37;660] REMOVED FROM OFFICE.
[001:01:38;661] DONALD TRUMP SHOWED US WHO HE
[001:01:40;697] WAS FROM THE VERY BEGINNING.
[001:01:43;666] TOO MANY PEOPLE TURNED A BLIND
[001:01:44;801] EYE.
[001:01:46;703] AND LAST WEDNESDAY, OUR COUNTRY
[001:01:48;905] PAID THE PRICE.
[001:01:49;806] I YIELD BACK THE BALANCE OF MY
[001:01:50;940] TIME.
[001:01:51;240] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE
[001:01:51;941] GENTLELADY YIELDS BACK.
[001:01:53;843] MR. RASKIN: HOW MUCH TIME DO
[001:01:55;912] BOTH SIDES HAVE REMAINING,
[001:01:57;113] PLEASE.
[001:01:58;881] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE
[001:01:59;582] GENTLEMAN FROM MARYLAND IS
[001:02:00;883] ADVISED HE HAS 7 3/4 MINUTES
[001:02:03;920] REMAINING.
[001:02:04;287] THE GENTLEMAN FROM OHIO HAS
[001:02:06;923] EIGHT MINUTES REMAINING.
[001:02:08;925] MR. RASKIN: I RESERVE.
[001:02:09;959] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE
[001:02:10;660] GENTLEMAN RESERVES.
[001:02:11;227] THE GENTLEMAN FROM OHIO.
[001:02:13;129] MR. YORDAN: I YIELD MYSELF SUCH
[001:02:14;397] TIME AS I MIGHT USE.
[001:02:17;166] THIS PAST GOVERNMENT -- PAST
[001:02:19;368] YEAR GOVERNMENT TOLD AMERICANS
[001:02:20;436] YOU CAN'T GO TO CHURCH, CAN'T GO
[001:02:21;604] TO SCHOOL.
[001:02:22;438] ONE HOUR AGO, DEMOCRATS TOLD
[001:02:24;340] REPUBLICANS, NEW RULE, NEW RULES
[001:02:25;575] FOR THE HOUSE.
[001:02:29;445] TODAY YOU CAN SAY ANYTHING YOU
[001:02:30;780] WANT ABOUT THE PRESIDENT NO RULE
[001:02:33;549] OF DECORUM, NO RULE ABOUT
[001:02:35;618] ATTACKING PERSONALITY, THEY CAN
[001:02:36;986] SAY NEG THEY WANT AND THEY'VE
[001:02:38;721] DONE THAT TODAY ON THE FLOOR,
[001:02:39;789] YOU'VE GOT TO WEAR A MASK.
[001:02:40;990] IF YOUR MASK COMES BELOW THE
[001:02:43;025] NOSE YOU'LL BE FINED.
[001:02:44;794] IN ORDER TO COME IN HERE AND
[001:02:46;829] CONSTITUTIONALLY REPRESENT YOUR
[001:02:47;830] CONSTITUENTS, THE 750,000 PEOPLE
[001:02:49;966] WE ALL GET THE PRIVE LEM OF
[001:02:51;901] SERVING YOU HAD TO WALK THROUGH
[001:02:52;935] A METAL DETECTOR.
[001:02:54;137] THEY DID ALL THESE CHANGES WITH
[001:02:56;205] LESS THAN 40 MINUTES OF DEBATE.
[001:02:59;041] TOMORROW, THEY'RE GOING TO
[001:02:59;709] IMPEACH A PRESIDENT.
[001:03:01;043] A PRESIDENT WHO IS LEAVING
[001:03:02;311] OFFICE IN EIGHT DAYS.
[001:03:03;246] EIGHT DAYS BEFORE THERE WILL BE
[001:03:05;348] A PEACEFUL TRANSFER OF POWER
[001:03:07;383] JUST LIKE THERE HAS BEEN EVERY
[001:03:09;285] OTHER TIME IN AMERICAN HISTORY.
[001:03:11;354] BUT THEY'RE GOING TO DO
[001:03:14;390] IMPEACHMENT.
[001:03:14;791] THEY'RE GOING TO DO IT.
[001:03:15;558] AGAIN.
[001:03:16;392] THEY'VE BEEN OBSESSED WITH IT.
[001:03:17;560] IT IS TRULY AN OBSESSION.
[001:03:19;629] PEOPLE ON THE DEMOCRAT SIDE
[001:03:20;463] STARTED CALLING FOR IMPEACHMENT
[001:03:22;732] THE DAY PRESIDENT TRUMP WAS
[001:03:25;601] INAUGURATED THAT I -- THEY
[001:03:26;769] ATTACKED HIM BEFORE HE WON THE
[001:03:28;004] FIRST ELECTION.
[001:03:28;805] BEFORE HE WON IN 2016.
[001:03:31;707] THEY ATTACKED HIM THAT SUMMER
[001:03:33;876] WHEN THEY STARTED THEIR
[001:03:34;877] INVESTIGATION.
[001:03:36;779] THIS IS SCARY WHERE THIS GOES
[001:03:37;980] BECAUSE THIS IS MORE THAN ABOUT
[001:03:39;816] IMPEACHING THE PRESIDENT OF THE
[001:03:40;550] UNITED STATES.
[001:03:40;983] THIS IS ABOUT CANCELING THE
[001:03:43;152] PRESIDENT AND CANCELING ALL THE
[001:03:45;054] PEOPLE YOU GUYS DISAGREE WITH.
[001:03:46;923] THAT'S WHAT SCARES ME MORE THAN
[001:03:49;192] ANYTHING.
[001:03:49;559] WE HAVE SEEN IT PLAY OUT OVER
[001:03:51;127] THE PAST SEVERAL DAYS.
[001:03:52;128] I NEVER THOUGHT I'D SEE THE
[001:03:53;296] THINGS WE ARE NOW WITNESSING.
[001:03:55;097] I DON'T KNOW WHERE IT ENDS BUT I
[001:03:56;299] TELL YOU WHAT, IT SHOULD SCARE
[001:03:58;434] US ALL.
[001:03:59;168] I SAID THIS IN THE JUDICIARY
[001:04:01;170] COMMITTEE, AND THE GENTLEMAN
[001:04:02;238] FROM MARYLAND WILL REMEMBER THIS
[001:04:04;240] THE CANCEL CULTURE DOESN'T JUST
[001:04:07;310] GO AFTER CONSERVATIVES AND
[001:04:08;644] REPUBLICANS.
[001:04:09;378] IT WON'T JUST STOP THERE.
[001:04:10;479] IT'LL COME FOR US ALL.
[001:04:12;481] THAT'S WHAT'S FRIGHTENING.
[001:04:13;616] I HOPE, I HOPE, YOU ALL
[001:04:15;685] RECOGNIZE THAT.
[001:04:16;485] AND AT SOME POINT, AT SOME
[001:04:19;522] POINT, WE CAN UNITE AND ACTUALLY
[001:04:20;823] DO THINGS THAT HELP THOSE FOLKS
[001:04:23;559] BECOME HOME THAT WE ALL GET THE
[001:04:24;694] PRIVILEGE OF REPRESENTING.
[001:04:27;563] RESERVE OUR TIME, MR. SPEAKER.
[001:04:28;898] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE
[001:04:29;699] GENTLEMAN RESERVES.
[001:04:30;800] THE GENTLEMAN FROM MARYLAND.
[001:04:32;668] MR. RASKIN: THANK YOU.
[001:04:33;236] THE CANCEL CULTURE OF VIOLENT
[001:04:35;805] WHITE SUPREMACY TRIED TO CANCEL
[001:04:37;006] ALL OUR LIVES LAST WEDNESDAY.
[001:04:38;941] I YIELD ONE MINUTE TO
[001:04:42;845] CONGRESSMAN --
[001:04:44;847] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE
[001:04:45;548] GENTLEMAN IS RECOGNIZED.
[001:04:46;883] >> ON JANUARY 7, I WAS OUTSIDE
[001:04:48;117] THOSE DOORS WHERE 14 HOURS
[001:04:50;887] EARLIER A RIOTER WAS SHOT AS SHE
[001:04:53;022] VIOLENTLY TRIED TO ENTER THIS
[001:04:54;357] CHAMBER.
[001:04:55;024] IT WAS IN THAT EARLY MORNING
[001:04:56;325] THAT I HAD A BRIEF CONVERSATION
[001:04:58;294] WITH VICE PRESIDENT MIKE PENCE
[001:04:59;328] RIGHT AFTER WE FINISHED
[001:05:01;130] CERTIFYING THE ELECTORAL
[001:05:02;131] COLLEGE.
[001:05:02;465] I WAS PROUD THAT WE DID OUR JOB
[001:05:04;200] THAT MORNING DESPITE THE
[001:05:05;201] VIOLENCE WE EXPERIENCELED
[001:05:07;169] EARLIER THAT DAY BUT I KNEW THAT
[001:05:08;404] WAS NOT ENOUGH.
[001:05:09;405] BECAUSE OF THE SEDITIOUS ACTIONS
[001:05:12;275] BY PRESIDENT TRUMP BEFORE THAT
[001:05:13;509] RYE YET AND HIS INACTION DURING
[001:05:15;378] THAT RIOT.
[001:05:17;380] MR. PANETTA:: I SAID TO THE VICE
[001:05:18;114] PRESIDENT, IT'S UP TO YOU TO
[001:05:19;448] KEEP US SAFE.
[001:05:19;882] TONIGHT WITH THE PRESIDENT STILL
[001:05:21;450] IN OFFICE, I'M BEYOND ASKING.
[001:05:23;519] I'M LEGISLATING TO COMPEL THE
[001:05:24;954] VICE PRESIDENT TO CONVENE THE
[001:05:26;522] CABINET, TO CONCLUDE THAT THE
[001:05:27;657] PRESIDENT IS NOT JUST UNABLE,
[001:05:29;692] BUT CLEARLY HE IS UNWILLING AND
[001:05:32;628] UNWORTHY TO DISCHARGE HIS DEWS.
[001:05:34;730] THROUGH THIS LEGISLATION, I ASK
[001:05:35;998] AND I ASK MY COLLEAGUES, TO CALL
[001:05:37;800] ON THE VICE PRESIDENT TO INVOKE
[001:05:38;901] THE 25TH AMENDMENT, YES TO KEEP
[001:05:41;804] US SAFE AND KEEP THIS NATION
[001:05:43;806] SECURE.
[001:05:44;140] THANK YOU, MR. SPEAKER.
[001:05:44;740] I YIELD BACK.
[001:05:45;207] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE
[001:05:45;908] GENTLEMAN YIELDS BACK.
[001:05:46;876] THE GENTLEMAN RESERVES.
[001:05:48;010] THE GENTLEMAN FROM OHIO.
[001:05:50;880] MR. JORDAN: I YIELD TO THE
[001:05:53;049] GENTLELADY FROM NEW MEXICO FOR
[001:05:54;250] ONE MINUTE.
[001:05:54;984] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE
[001:05:55;685] GENTLELADY IS RECOGNIZED FOR ONE
[001:05:57;086] MINUTE.
[001:05:57;420] >> THANK YOU, MR. SPEAKER.
[001:05:58;254] I RISE IN OPPOSITION TO THE
[001:06:00;089] MISUSE OF THE 25TH AMENDMENT.
[001:06:02;124] TO PRESERVE SEPARATION OF POWER
[001:06:03;259] THE AUTHORS OF THE 25TH
[001:06:06;228] AMENDMENT CORRECTLY INTENDED
[001:06:07;396] SECTION 4 TO BE INITIATED BY THE
[001:06:09;265] VICE PRESIDENT, NOT BY THE
[001:06:10;399] REQUEST OF CONGRESS.
[001:06:13;336] PROCESS CONCERNS ASIDE THE FACT
[001:06:15;504] IS REMOVING THE PRESIDENT FROM
[001:06:16;572] OFFICE WILL NOT HEAL OUR NATION.
[001:06:19;475] IT WILL NOT BRIDGE OUR PARTISAN
[001:06:22;611] DIVIDE TO GIVE AMERICANS HOPE OR
[001:06:24;547] BRING US TOGETHER.
[001:06:25;681] IT WILL ONLY MAKE THINGS WORSE.
[001:06:27;650] WE ARE JUST DAYS AWAY UNTIL
[001:06:28;651] PRESIDENT TRUMP LEAVES THE WHITE
[001:06:29;952] HOUSE AND JUST DAYS INTO OUR NEW
[001:06:32;888] CONGRESS WE HAVE MORE IMPORTANT
[001:06:33;990] THINGS TO DO WE SHOULD BE
[001:06:35;791] WORKING TO HOLD BIG TECH
[001:06:36;959] ACCOUNTABLE.
[001:06:37;360] WE SHOULD BE WORKING TO HELP
[001:06:38;794] FAMILIES AND SMALL BUSINESSES
[001:06:39;996] GET THROUGH THE PANDEMIC.
[001:06:40;997] WE SHOULD BE WORKING ON JOBS,
[001:06:42;932] INFRASTRUCTURE, ENERGY AND ALL
[001:06:44;033] THE OTHER ISSUES OUR
[001:06:45;968] CONSTITUENTS SENT US HERE TO
[001:06:48;137] ADDRESS.
[001:06:48;904] I AM APPALLED BY THE VIOLENCE
[001:06:50;206] THAT TOOK PLACE HERE LAST WEEK.
[001:06:52;074] THOSE WHO ASSAULTED POLICE
[001:06:54;143] OFFICERS AND FORCED THIRE WAY
[001:06:56;078] INTO THAT IS HALLLOWED HALLS ARE
[001:06:58;347] RESPONSIBLE FOR THOSE IN FAVOR
[001:06:59;315] SAY AYE CRIMINAL ACTS AND MUST
[001:07:00;182] BE BROUGHT TO JUSTICE.
[001:07:01;217] MS. HERL: I CANNOT SUPPORT THE
[001:07:06;222] --
[001:07:07;189] MS. HERL: I CANNOT SUPPORT THIS,
[001:07:12;194] I CANNOT -- WE HAVE GOT TO STAND
[001:07:13;562] FOR THE CONSTITUTION.
[001:07:14;497] THIS IS OUR NEHEMIAH MOMENT AND
[001:07:18;334] WE BETTER TAKE ADVANTAGE.
[001:07:19;335] I YIELD BACK.
[001:07:20;336] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE
[001:07:21;470] GENTLEMAN GENTLELADY YIELDS
[001:07:22;405] BACK.
[001:07:22;705] THE GENTLEMAN FROM OHIO.
[001:07:26;475] THE GENTLEMAN RESERVES.
[001:07:28;644] MR. RASKIN.
[001:07:29;645] MR. RASKIN: I YIELD TO DR. BERA
[001:07:31;614] 45 SECONDS.
[001:07:32;681] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE
[001:07:33;382] GENTLEMAN IS RECOGNIZED FOR 45
[001:07:35;584] SECONDS.
[001:07:35;918] MR. BERA: JUST OVER A WEEK AGO
[001:07:37;586] WE ALL TOOK THE OATH OF OFFICE,
[001:07:38;754] ALL OF US, DEMOCRATS AN
[001:07:40;656] REPUBLICANS.
[001:07:41;057] PART OF THAT OATH WAS TO SUPPORT
[001:07:41;924] AND DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION
[001:07:43;092] AGAINST ALL ENEMIES BOTH FOREIGN
[001:07:45;127] AND DOMESTIC.
[001:07:46;862] IT'S QUITE CLEAR WHAT HAPPENED
[001:07:48;931] LAST WEDNESDAY, A DOMESTIC
[001:07:50;099] ATTACK ON OUR GOVERNMENT, A
[001:07:51;967] DOMESTIC ATTACK ON THIS BODY.
[001:07:54;003] REPUBLICANS HAVE ALREADY
[001:07:57;073] ACKNOWLEDGED WHO INSTIGATED THE
[001:08:00;176] ATARK, THE LEAD INSTIGATOR WAS
[001:08:02;311] THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
[001:08:03;345] STATES.
[001:08:03;679] IT IS OUR SOLEMN DUTY TO UPHOLD
[001:08:05;314] OUR OATH TO DEFEND OUR
[001:08:06;549] CONSTITUTION AGAINST ALL ENEMIES
[001:08:08;417] FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC THERE IS
[001:08:09;618] NOTHING MORE SOLEMN THAN WHAT WE
[001:08:11;520] HAVE TO DO.
[001:08:12;388] IF MY COLLEAGUES DONE WANT TO
[001:08:14;356] INSTIGATE THE 25TH AMENDMENT,
[001:08:15;524] THAT'S ONE MECHANISM, WE'LL GIVE
[001:08:16;725] YOU AN OPPORTUNITY TO IMPEACH
[001:08:18;794] THE PRESIDENT.
[001:08:19;595] THAT'S OUR DUTY.
[001:08:20;429] THAT'S WHAT WE HAVE TO DO.
[001:08:21;497] LET'S UPHOLD OUR OATH.
[001:08:22;531] I YIELD BACK.
[001:08:23;466] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE
[001:08:24;166] GENTLEMAN YIELDS BACK.
[001:08:25;468] THE GENTLEMAN FROM MARYLAND.
[001:08:26;502] THE GENTLEMAN FROM OHIO.
[001:08:30;673] MR. JORDAN: RESERVE.
[001:08:31;674] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE
[001:08:32;374] GENTLEMAN FROM MARYLAND.
[001:08:32;975] MR. RASKIN: 45 SECONDS TO MR.
[001:08:34;710] GOMEZ.
[001:08:36;579] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: 45
[001:08:37;613] SECONDS IS YIELDED TO MR. GOMEZ.
[001:08:41;617] MR. GOMEZ: THANK YOU THANK YOU,
[001:08:43;018] MR. SPEAKER.
[001:08:43;719] WE'RE HERE TONIGHT BECAUSE A
[001:08:44;920] VIOLENT MOB INCITED BY THE
[001:08:46;055] PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
[001:08:47;189] BASED ON A LIE LAY SIEGE TO
[001:08:48;991] CONGRESS TO OVERTURN A
[001:08:50;893] PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
[001:08:51;827] BUT WE HAVE TO ASK OURSELVES,
[001:08:54;029] WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED IF THAT
[001:08:55;931] MOB SUCCEEDED?
[001:08:57;032] WHY STOP AT ONE ELECTION?
[001:08:59;101] WHY NOT TWO?
[001:09:00;069] WHY NOT MAKE DONALD TRUMP
[001:09:02;037] PRESIDENT FOR LIFE?
[001:09:03;973] THANK GOD THAT DID NOT HAPPEN
[001:09:06;008] AND THEY DID NOT SUCCEED.
[001:09:08;110] HOWEVER, EVEN AFTER THAT
[001:09:09;111] TERRIBLE DAY OF JANUARY 6, 2021,
[001:09:12;214] DONALD TRUMP IS STILL USING THE
[001:09:14;350] LIE OF A STOLEN ELECTION TO TURN
[001:09:16;519] AMERICAN AGAINST AMERICAN FOR
[001:09:18;320] HIS OWN SELFISH ENDS.
[001:09:20;356] I BELIEVE EVEN WITH ONLY A FEW
[001:09:21;490] DAYS LEFT IN OFFICE, THAT DONALD
[001:09:23;559] TRUMP IS STILL A DANGER TO OUR
[001:09:25;461] REPUBLIC AND MUST BE REMOVED
[001:09:26;662] IMMEDIATELY.
[001:09:29;498] AS A FACT AND AS AN EXAMPLE,
[001:09:31;567] TODAY THE JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF
[001:09:32;835] ISSUED A STATEMENT --
[001:09:37;706] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE
[001:09:38;674] GENTLEMAN IS GRANNED 0 SECONDS.
[001:09:41;777] MR. GOMEZ: TODAY THE JOINT
[001:09:43;646] CHIEFS OF STAFF ISSUED A
[001:09:44;647] STATEMENT REAFFIRMING THEIR
[001:09:45;981] DEVOTION TO THE RULE OF LAW AND
[001:09:47;716] AFFIRMING THAT JOE BIDEN WILL BE
[001:09:48;450] THE 46TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
[001:09:49;919] STATES.
[001:09:50;753] WITH THAT, I YIELD BACK.
[001:09:51;887] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE
[001:09:52;588] GENTLEMAN YIELDS BACK.
[001:09:53;923] MR. RASKIN.
[001:09:55;858] RESERVES.
[001:09:56;225] THE GENTLEMAN FROM OHIO.
[001:09:56;926] THE GENTLEMAN RESERVES.
[001:09:58;861] MR. RASKIN: I YIELD ONE MINUTE
[001:10:00;896] TO MS. VELAZQUEZ OF NEW YORK.
[001:10:01;931] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE
[001:10:02;631] GENTLELADY FROM NEW YORK, CHAIR
[001:10:04;099] OF THE COMMITTEE ON SMALL
[001:10:04;733] BUSINESS IS RECOGNIZED FOR ONE
[001:10:06;302] MINUTE.
[001:10:14;176] MS. VELAZQUEZ: I RISE IN STRONG
[001:10:15;344] SUPPORT OF THIS RESOLUTION.
[001:10:21;217] OUR CHILDREN ARE WATCHING ALL OF
[001:10:23;419] THIS AN LEARNING FROM ALL OF IT.
[001:10:26;222] I BELIEVE WE EACH HAVE A MORAL
[001:10:29;325] OBLIGATION TO EXERCISE GOOD
[001:10:31;594] JUDGMENT AN MODEL THE BEHAVIOR
[001:10:34;430] WE HOPE THEY WILL EMULATE.
[001:10:40;536] I AM SURE IS THE CASE WITH MANY
[001:10:42;638] OF YOU, IT HAS DEEPLY TROUBLED
[001:10:45;608] ME IN A WAY THAT I SIMPLY CANNOT
[001:10:49;578] SET ASIDE.
[001:10:52;648] THAT WAS ELAINE CHAO.
[001:10:54;783] THESE WERE MEMBERS OF THE
[001:10:56;685] PRESIDENT'S OWN CABINET WHO BORE
[001:10:58;854] THE SACRED RESPONSIBLE OF TAKING
[001:11:01;790] ACTION WHEN THE PRESIDENT IS
[001:11:03;926] CLEARLY UNFIT FOR OFFICE.
[001:11:06;862] BUT THEY -- IF THEY WILL NOT
[001:11:13;068] ACT, CONGRESS WILL.
[001:11:14;003] TODAY WE ARE GIVING THE VICE
[001:11:16;171] PRESIDENT 24 HOURS TO DO RIGHT
[001:11:18;173] BY THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
[001:11:20;042] REMOVE THIS PRESIDENT FROM
[001:11:22;311] OFFICE AND IF YOU DO NOT, THE
[001:11:24;213] HOUSE WILL IMPEACH.
[001:11:26;048] I YIELD BACK.
[001:11:27;116] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE
[001:11:28;183] GENTLELADY YIELDS BACK.
[001:11:28;784] THE GENTLEMAN RESERVES.
[001:11:30;152] THE GENTLEMAN FROM OHIO.
[001:11:32;221] MR. JORDAN: RESERVE.
[001:11:34;323] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: MR.
[001:11:35;190] RASKIN.
[001:11:36;191] MR. RASKIN: I YIELD ONE MINUTE
[001:11:37;326] TO THE GENTLEMAN FROM
[001:11:38;294] CALIFORNIA, MR. SCHIFF.
[001:11:39;228] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE
[001:11:39;928] GENTLEMAN IS RECOGNIZED FOR ONE
[001:11:41;230] MINUTE.
[001:11:42;231] MR. SCHIFF: SIX DAYS AGO I WAS
[001:11:44;233] STANDING RIGHT HERE, FULFILLING
[001:11:46;502] MY CONSTITUTIONAL DUTIES TO
[001:11:47;469] CERTIFY THE ELECTION, AND SIX
[001:11:48;671] DAYS AGO DONALD TRUMP WAS ON THE
[001:11:51;440] MALL, WHIPPING A MOB INTO A
[001:11:53;442] FRENZY WITH FALSE CLAIMS OF
[001:11:54;610] STOLEN ELECTIONS AND
[001:11:56;445] UNCONSTITUTIONAL SCHEMES.
[001:11:58;480] IT WAS A BIG LIE.
[001:11:59;648] THE SAME BIG LIE HE HAS BEEN
[001:12:01;717] TELLING FOR WEEKS.
[001:12:02;618] HE TOLD THE MOB, WE ARE GOING TO
[001:12:04;586] THE CAPITOL AND TO FIGHT LIKE
[001:12:06;555] HELL AND THEY DID.
[001:12:08;624] FIVE DIED.
[001:12:09;725] MANY MORE WERE HURT.
[001:12:11;760] WE WERE SECONDS AWAY FROM
[001:12:13;762] SOMETHING MUCH WORSE.
[001:12:14;863] MY COLLEAGUES UPHOLDING OUR OATH
[001:12:16;899] TO THE CONSTITUTION AND OUR
[001:12:18;801] DEMOCRACY MEANS RECOGNIZING THAT
[001:12:20;836] EVERY SECOND THAT DONALD TRUMP
[001:12:22;104] IS PRESIDENT, THE NATION IS AT
[001:12:23;138] RISK.
[001:12:23;906] WE HAVE THE POWER TO DO
[001:12:25;107] SOMETHING ABOUT IT, MIKE PENCE
[001:12:27;943] MUST DO HIS DUTY, INVOKE THE
[001:12:29;978] 25TH AND IF HE WON'T WE MILL
[001:12:32;081] MOVE -- WE WILL MOVE WITH
[001:12:34;083] URGENCY TO DO OURS AN IMPEACH
[001:12:36;318] DONALD TRUMP AGAIN.
[001:12:37;286] I YIELD BACK.
[001:12:38;220] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE
[001:12:38;921] GENTLEMAN YIELDS BACK.
[001:12:43;258] THE GENTLEMAN FROM MARYLAND IS
[001:12:46;328] ADVISE HEAD HAS 2 3/4 MINUTES
[001:12:49;365] REMAINING.
[001:12:49;732] THE GENTLEMAN FROM OHIO IS
[001:12:51;433] ADVISED THAT HE HAS 4 3/4
[001:12:54;470] MINUTES REMAINING.
[001:12:55;471] THE GENTLEMAN FROM HIGHWAY.
[001:12:56;538] MR. WHERE ARE DAN: I YIELD THREE
[001:12:58;707] MINUTES TO THE GENTLEMAN FROM
[001:13:00;576] OHIO, MR. DAVIDSON.
[001:13:01;577] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE
[001:13:02;277] GENTLEMAN FROM OHIO IS
[001:13:03;679] RECOGNIZED FOR THREE MINUTES.
[001:13:04;780] MR. DAVIDSON: I THANK THE
[001:13:06;749] GENTLEMAN.
[001:13:07;116] MR. SPEAKER, I CAN'T SAY IT
[001:13:07;883] BETTER THAN THE VICE PRESIDENT
[001:13:09;752] SAID IT HIMSELF.
[001:13:11;754] VICE PRESIDENT MIKE PENCE SAID,
[001:13:14;857] LAST WEEK I DID NOT YIELD TO
[001:13:16;892] PRESSURE TO EXERT POWER BEYOND
[001:13:18;160] MY CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY TO
[001:13:20;062] DETERMINE THE OUTCOME OF THE
[001:13:21;130] ELECTION AND I WILL NOT NOW
[001:13:22;231] YIELD TO EFFORTS IN THE HOUSE OF
[001:13:24;433] REPRESENTATIVES TO PLAY
[001:13:25;200] POLITICAL GAMES AT A TIME SO
[001:13:27;236] SERIOUS IN THE LIFE OF OUR
[001:13:28;337] NATION.
[001:13:29;138] I ASK UNANIMOUS CONSENT TO
[001:13:31;240] SUBMIT THIS TO THE RECORD.
[001:13:32;174] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: WITHOUT
[001:13:32;908] OBJECTION.
[001:13:34;209] MR. DAVIDSON: I THANK THE VICE
[001:13:35;544] PRESIDENT FOR HIS EXCELLENT
[001:13:37;279] LEADERSHIP, HIS PROFESSIONALISM
[001:13:38;547] AND FOR HIS FAITHFULNESS TO OUR
[001:13:40;649] CONSTITUTION.
[001:13:42;317] IN THE ONLY WOULD IT BE AN ABUSE
[001:13:44;420] OF THE 25TH AMENDMENT FOR MIKE
[001:13:46;455] PENCE TO INVOKE IT, TO MAKE A
[001:13:48;490] POLITICAL STATEMENT, IT'S
[001:13:50;492] CLEARLY NOT OUR ROLE IN CONGRESS
[001:13:52;494] TO DO WHAT WE'RE DOING HERE
[001:13:54;696] TONIGHT, OR IS PROPOSED TO DO BY
[001:13:57;533] THE MAJORITY.
[001:13:58;600] SPEAKER PELOSI CLAIMS THAT
[001:13:59;601] PRESIDENT TRUMP INCITED THE MOB,
[001:14:01;637] THAT ATTACKED THE CAPITOL AT A
[001:14:04;640] RALLY.
[001:14:05;641] AS MR. MCCLINTOCK SPOKE EARLIER,
[001:14:06;909] HE READ THE PRESIDENT'S
[001:14:08;744] STATEMENT.
[001:14:09;111] HE ENCOURAGED PEOPLE TO COME
[001:14:10;813] PEACEFULLY AND PATRIOTCALLY.
[001:14:13;782] "THE WASHINGTON POST" IS
[001:14:14;817] REPORTING SOMETHING THAT I WOULD
[001:14:16;919] HOPE OUR CHAIRMAN OF THE INTEL
[001:14:18;253] COMMITTEE WOULD KNOW ABOUT, THE
[001:14:19;955] F.B.I. REPORT WARNED OF WAR AT
[001:14:22;024] THE CAPITOL THE DAY BEFORE THE
[001:14:23;258] ATTACK ON OUR CAPITOL.
[001:14:25;093] I'M CURIOUS HOW SOMEONE PROPOSES
[001:14:28;297] THAT THE PRESIDENT INCITED THE
[001:14:30;399] MOB AT A RALLY THE DAY BEFORE
[001:14:33;402] THE RALLY.
[001:14:37;005] I ASK UNANIMOUS CON SENT THE
[001:14:38;507] ARTICLE BE SUBMITTED TO THE
[001:14:40;108] RECORD.
[001:14:41;009] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE:
[001:14:41;643] WITHOUT OBJECTION.
[001:14:42;144] MS. DAVIDS: OTHERS ARE -- DAVID
[001:14:43;145] JACOBY OTHERS ARE REPORTING A
[001:14:45;047] TO IMIN--
[001:14:46;048] MR. DAVIDSON: OTHERS ARE
[001:14:48;150] REPORTING A LINK AS WELL.
[001:14:52;154] HERE'S WHAT WE DO KNOW.
[001:14:55;157] NO ONE HAS DEFENDED THIS ATTACK
[001:14:56;492] ON OUR CAPITOL.
[001:14:58;293] ON OUR -- CONTRARY, WE ARE
[001:15:01;163] MISSING, WILLFULLY MISSING, IN
[001:15:02;364] MY OPINION, A MOMENT OF EXTREME
[001:15:04;299] UNITY IN OUR NATION.
[001:15:07;135] JUST LIKE WAS WILLFULLY DONE
[001:15:09;171] EARLIER THIS YEAR.
[001:15:11;173] AT A TIME OF GREAT POLITICAL
[001:15:14;176] AND PARTISAN DIVISION, EVEN
[001:15:17;212] SEETHING ANGER, ONE THING ALL
[001:15:19;381] AMERICANS SEEM TO AGREE ON,
[001:15:21;283] THESE ATTACKS WERE WRONG.
[001:15:24;219] THE PRESIDENT CONDEMNED THEM,
[001:15:26;321] HE DISCOURAGED VIOLENCE.
[001:15:28;390] NOT JUST ON JANUARY 6, BUT ON
[001:15:31;426] OTHER DAYS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR,
[001:15:32;461] AS HE TALKED ABOUT LAW AND
[001:15:35;497] ORDER.
[001:15:35;797] AS HE TALKED ABOUT SOMETHING
[001:15:36;732] THAT WE FINALLY SEEM TO AGREE
[001:15:38;667] ON, THAT THERE IS A CLEAR
[001:15:40;536] DISTINCTION BETWEEN THE
[001:15:42;538] CONSTITUTION'S FIRST AMENDMENT
[001:15:43;539] PROTECTION OF THE RIGHT TO
[001:15:45;541] ASSEMBLE PEACEABLY, AND RIOTS.
[001:15:49;545] CRIMINAL, UNLAWFUL RIOTS.
[001:15:50;812] THERE'S A DISTINCTION BETWEEN
[001:15:53;615] RIOTERS AND PROTESTERS AND
[001:15:54;683] FRANKLY IT TOOK US MONTHS TO
[001:15:56;618] AGREE ON THAT AS A BODY IN
[001:15:58;620] CONGRESS.
[001:15:58;987] BUT THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED
[001:16:00;756] STATES OF AMERICA AGREED TO IT.
[001:16:02;724] THEY UNDERSTOOD IT.
[001:16:04;693] SO I ENCOURAGE MY COLLEAGUES
[001:16:06;962] ACROSS THE POLITICAL SPECTRUM,
[001:16:08;931] THE MEMBERS OF CONGRESS HERE
[001:16:10;832] GATHERED TOGETHER, TODAY AND
[001:16:13;802] TOMORROW, TO STAND UNITED AND
[001:16:15;871] MOVE FORWARD WITH THE AGREEMENT
[001:16:19;041] OUR COUNTRY HAS.
[001:16:19;841] THIS WAS WRONG.
[001:16:21;009] AND IT WAS NOT --
[001:16:23;979] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE
[001:16:26;081] GENTLEMAN'S TIME HAS EXPIRED.
[001:16:28;050] THE GENTLEMAN FROM OHIO
[001:16:29;051] RESERVES.
[001:16:29;418] THE GENTLEMAN FROM MARYLAND.
[001:16:31;053] MR. RASKIN: I YIELD 3/4 OF A
[001:16:32;120] MINUTE TO MR. ESPAILLAT FROM
[001:16:33;355] NEW YORK.
[001:16:34;089] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE
[001:16:34;790] GENTLEMAN FROM NEW YORK IS
[001:16:36;124] RECOGNIZED FOR 45 SECONDS.
[001:16:38;126] MR. ESPAILLAT: THANK YOU, MR.
[001:16:39;361] SPEAKER.
[001:16:39;695] WE'VE ALL KNOWN FOR A WHILE
[001:16:41;129] NOW, BUT THIS PAST WEEK IT HAS
[001:16:43;231] BECOME UNDENIABLY CLEAR.
[001:16:45;167] DONALD J. TRUMP IS UNFIT.
[001:16:47;302] TO THE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE
[001:16:49;204] , DEFENSE, COMMERCE AND
[001:16:52;207] EDUCATION AND TRANSPORTATION,
[001:16:53;208] HE IS UNFIT.
[001:16:54;309] TO THE SECRETARIES OF HUMAN
[001:16:56;211] SERVICES, HOMELAND SECURITY,
[001:16:58;213] HOUSING, INTERIOR AND LABOR, HE
[001:17:00;382] IS UNFIT.
[001:17:00;749] TO THE ATTORNEY GENERAL, HE IS
[001:17:03;218] UNFIT.
[001:17:04;186] TO THE VICE PRESIDENT OF THE
[001:17:05;354] UNITED STATES, HE SUMMONS HIS
[001:17:08;256] GOONS, THEY SHUT THEIR HOODS
[001:17:09;358] AND CAME WITH THEIR RACIST
[001:17:11;393] CONFEDERATE FLAG TO
[001:17:13;261] ASSASSINATE HIM.
[001:17:14;363] TO ASSASSINATE THE VICE
[001:17:16;498] PRESIDENT.
[001:17:17;366] HE IS UNFIT.
[001:17:18;467] INVOKE THE 25TH AMENDMENT.
[001:17:21;403] IF NOT, WE WILL IMPEACH HIM
[001:17:23;405] TOMORROW.
[001:17:23;772] AND I YIELD BACK.
[001:17:25;474] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE
[001:17:26;174] GENTLEMAN YIELDS BACK THE
[001:17:26;808] BALANCE OF HIS TIME.
[001:17:27;342] THE GENTLEMAN RESERVES THE
[001:17:28;010] BALANCE OF HIS TIME.
[001:17:28;543] THE GENTLEMAN FROM OHIO.
[001:17:30;479] RESERVES.
[001:17:30;846] MR. RASKIN.
[001:17:31;680] MR. RASKIN: I'M YIELDING 45
[001:17:32;614] SECONDS TO
[001:17:33;015] MR. DAVIS OF ILLINOIS.
[001:17:33;749] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE
[001:17:34;683] GENTLEMAN FROM ILLINOIS, MR.
[001:17:35;617] DANNY DAVIS,S IS -- IS
[001:17:37;719] RECOGNIZED FOR 45 SECONDS.
[001:17:40;689] MR. DAVIS: THANK YOU, MR.
[001:17:41;323] SPEAKER.
[001:17:41;657] AFTER LISTENING TO ALL THAT
[001:17:42;791] I'VE HEARD THIS EVENING, I
[001:17:44;726] STILL HAVE THE FAITH AND BELIEF
[001:17:47;696] THAT WE CAN COME TOGETHER AS A
[001:17:51;767] UNIT.
[001:17:52;067] I WAS READING MY BIBLE THE
[001:17:53;735] OTHER DAY AND SAW THAT IT SAID,
[001:17:57;773] COME AND LET US REASON
[001:17:58;740] TOGETHER.
[001:17:59;808] OTHERWISE WE SHALL ALL BE
[001:18:02;878] DESTROYED BY THE EDGE OF THE
[001:18:05;947] SWORD.
[001:18:06;248] I SAY TO MY COLLEAGUES, LET'S
[001:18:08;050] REASON TOGETHER.
[001:18:10;952] YOU CANNOT ERASE TRUTH WITH A
[001:18:13;989] LIE.
[001:18:15;924] YOU CANNOT PRETEND THAT WHAT
[001:18:17;959] HAS HAPPENED DID NOT HAPPEN.
[001:18:21;997] YES, WE OUGHT TO HAVE A
[001:18:25;067] PRESIDENT, BUT IT'S TIME FOR
[001:18:27;335] THIS ONE TO GO.
[001:18:29;237] I URGE PASSAGE OF THIS
[001:18:32;274] RESOLUTION AND AGREE
[001:18:35;210] WHOLEHEARTEDLY.
[001:18:36;211] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE
[001:18:36;912] GENTLEMAN YIELDS BACK THE
[001:18:37;546] BALANCE OF HIS TIME.
[001:18:38;080] THE GENTLEMAN RESERVES THE
[001:18:38;747] BALANCE OF HIS TIME.
[001:18:39;281] THE GENTLEMAN FROM OHIO.
[001:18:39;881] MR. JORDAN: WE RESERVE.
[001:18:40;515] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: HE
[001:18:41;183] RESERVES.
[001:18:41;550] MR. RASKIN.
[001:18:41;983] MR. RASKIN: I YIELD 45 SECONDS
[001:18:43;318] TO THE DISTINGUISHED GENTLEMAN
[001:18:44;686] FROM CALIFORNIA, MR. THOMPSON.
[001:18:45;454] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE
[001:18:46;154] GENTLEMAN IS RECOGNIZED FOR 45
[001:18:48;390] SECONDS.
[001:18:48;724] MR. THOMPSON: MR. SPEAKER, THE
[001:18:54;463] PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
[001:18:55;464] INCITED AN ATTACK AGAINST OUR
[001:18:57;532] DEMOCRACY.
[001:18:57;899] FOR MONTHS HINNED UP HIS
[001:19:00;469] SUPPORTERS WITH LIES -- GINNED
[001:19:02;604] UP HIS SUPPORTERS WITH LIES
[001:19:04;539] ABOUT THE ELECTION AND INCITED
[001:19:05;674] THEM TO VIOLENCE.
[001:19:06;641] HE UNLEASHED A MOB ON THE
[001:19:09;511] CAPITOL.
[001:19:09;845] THE PRESIDENT MUST BE HELD
[001:19:11;513] ACCOUNTABLE FOR THIS VIAL
[001:19:12;547] ATTACK.
[001:19:13;548] HE KNEW WHAT HE WAS DOING AND
[001:19:15;684] NOW FIVE PEOPLE ARE DEAD.
[001:19:17;619] CONGRESS WILL NOT BE
[001:19:19;654] INTIMIDATED.
[001:19:20;689] AMERICA WILL NOT SUCCUMB TO MOB
[001:19:22;724] RULE.
[001:19:23;024] THE VICE PRESIDENT CAN INITIATE
[001:19:26;695] REMOVAL OF THE PRESIDENT WHO'S
[001:19:27;796] UNFIT FOR OFFICE AND THIS
[001:19:28;830] PRESIDENT IS UNFIT.
[001:19:30;799] WE MUST -- HE MUST BE REMOVED.
[001:19:32;968] I URGE A YES VOTE ON THIS
[001:19:35;804] RESOLUTION AND I URGE A YES
[001:19:37;906] VOTE ON IMPEACHMENT TOMORROW.
[001:19:39;241] AND I YIELD BACK THE BALANCE OF
[001:19:40;308] MY TIME.
[001:19:40;909] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE
[001:19:41;610] GENTLEMAN YIELDS BACK THE
[001:19:42;244] BALANCE OF HIS TIME.
[001:19:42;778] THE GENTLEMAN FROM MARYLAND
[001:19:43;478] RESERVES.
[001:19:45;013] DO YOU RESERVE?
[001:19:46;014] MR. RASKIN: WE HAVE ONE LAST
[001:19:47;182] SPEAKER.
[001:19:47;516] IS THE GENTLEMAN PREPARED TO
[001:19:49;017] CLOSE?
[001:19:49;985] MR. JORDAN: I'M PREPARED TO
[001:19:51;052] CLOSE.
[001:19:54;022] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE
[001:19:55;123] GENTLEMAN FROM OHIO IS
[001:19:56;057] RECOGNIZED.
[001:19:56;458] MR. JORDAN: I THOUGHT HE HAD
[001:19:57;159] ONE LAST SPEAKER.
[001:19:58;059] MR. RASKIN: WE'LL GO AFTER YOU.
[001:20:00;061] WE'LL CLOSE ON MY SPEAKER.
[001:20:02;264] MR. JORDAN: OK, OK.
[001:20:04;132] THANK YOU, MR. SPEAKER.
[001:20:07;135] WHAT HAPPENED AT THE CAPITOL ON
[001:20:09;204] JANUARY 6 WAS AS WRONG AS WRONG
[001:20:11;173] CAN BE.
[001:20:11;506] IT'S NOT WHAT AMERICA IS ABOUT.
[001:20:13;208] AND WE CONDEMNED THIS VIOLENCE.
[001:20:14;609] WE COMMEND THE MEN AND WOMEN OF
[001:20:16;244] THE CAPITOL POLICE FOR THEIR
[001:20:17;212] BRAVERY AND WE MOURN THE LOSS
[001:20:19;281] OF THOSE LIVES THAT WERE TAKEN
[001:20:21;216] LAST WEEK.
[001:20:23;185] REPUBLICANS HAVE BEEN
[001:20:24;286] CONSISTENT.
[001:20:24;686] WE CONDEMNED THE VIOLENCE LAST
[001:20:26;388] SUMMER.
[001:20:27;355] WE CONDEMNED THE VIOLENCE LAST
[001:20:29;524] WEEK.
[001:20:31;459] DEMOCRATS HAVE BEEN CONSISTENT
[001:20:32;661] ABOUT ONE THING.
[001:20:34;462] THEIR ENDLESS QUEST TO OVERTURN
[001:20:37;632] THE 2016 ELECTION.
[001:20:38;733] THEY'RE STILL TRYING TO
[001:20:40;502] OVERTURN THE 2016 ELECTION
[001:20:41;703] AFTER THE 2020 ELECTION.
[001:20:45;607] THIS HAS BEEN AN OBSESSION WITH
[001:20:47;075] YOU GUYS.
[001:20:47;709] AND THE FIRST ROUND, THE FIRST
[001:20:50;011] IMPEACHMENT, BASED ON THE
[001:20:51;847] UNANIMOUS WHISTLEBLOWER THAT
[001:20:52;881] THE COUNTRY COULDN'T -- YOU
[001:20:54;049] TRIED TO REMOVE PRESIDENT TRUMP
[001:20:55;083] FROM OFFICE BASED ON A GUY WE
[001:20:56;852] WEREN'T EVEN ALLOWED TO SEE,
[001:20:58;887] KNOW WHO HE OR SHE WAS,
[001:21:01;022] COULDN'T CROSS EXAMINE.
[001:21:03;024] A WHISTLEBLOWER WITH NO
[001:21:03;925] FIRSTHAND KNOWLEDGE, WHO WAS
[001:21:05;026] BIASED AGAINST THE PRESIDENT
[001:21:06;061] AND WHO WORKED, INTERESTINGLY
[001:21:07;128] ENOUGH, FOR JOE BIDEN.
[001:21:08;897] SO CONTINUING THIS QUEST IS NOT
[001:21:11;933] , AS HAS BEEN SAID SO MANY
[001:21:13;068] TIMES ON THE FLOOR TONIGHT, NOT
[001:21:15;003] WHAT THE COUNTRY NEEDS.
[001:21:16;204] NOT WHAT THE COUNTRY NEEDS,
[001:21:18;106] PARTICULARLY AFTER THE YEAR THE
[001:21:19;307] COUNTRY HAS LIVED THROUGH.
[001:21:21;977] SO I HOPE WE WILL NOT VOTE FOR
[001:21:24;179] THIS.
[001:21:24;479] THAT THIS THING WILL GO DOWN
[001:21:26;248] AND I URGE MY COLLEAGUES TO
[001:21:28;383] VOTE AGAINST THE RESOLUTION
[001:21:30;218] SPONSORED BY THE GENTLEMAN FROM
[001:21:31;586] MARYLAND.
[001:21:32;220] WITH THAT, WE YIELD BACK.
[001:21:33;421] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE
[001:21:34;289] GENTLEMAN YIELDS BACK THE
[001:21:34;923] BALANCE OF HIS TIME.
[001:21:35;457] MR. RASKIN.
[001:21:35;891] MR. RASKIN: MR. SPEAKER, I
[001:21:36;558] YIELD THE REMAINDER OF MY TIME
[001:21:37;392] WHICH I THINK IS 47 SECONDS, TO
[001:21:39;561] THE DISTINGUISHED CHAIRMAN OF
[001:21:40;595] THE AGRICULTURE COMMITTEE, MR.
[001:21:41;696] SCOTT OF GEORGIA.
[001:21:42;430] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE
[001:21:43;131] GENTLEMAN FROM GEORGIA IS
[001:21:44;499] ALLOWED 37 SECONDS -- 30
[001:21:46;635] SECONDS TO CLOSE.
[001:21:50;639] MR. SCOTT: WELL THANK YOU FOR
[001:21:51;339] THAT, MR. SPEAKER.
[001:21:51;873] BUT THIS, WHAT WE'RE DISCUSSING
[001:21:54;843] TONIGHT, ISN'T ABOUT US.
[001:21:58;647] IT'S ABOUT THE WILL OF THE
[001:22:00;815] AMERICAN PEOPLE.
[001:22:03;685] THEY'RE BROKENHEARTED.
[001:22:04;953] THEY'RE CRYING.
[001:22:06;738] THEY'RE DISCOURAGED.
[001:22:08;807] AND THE OVERWHELMING NUMBER OF
[001:22:11;910] AMERICAN PEOPLE WANT THIS
[001:22:14;112] PRESIDENT OUT OF OFFICE NOW.
[001:22:19;017] THIS IS WHY WE GOT TO DO IT NOW
[001:22:22;087] .
[001:22:23;088] WE GOT TO HEAL THE WOUNDS.
[001:22:25;090] THE LONGER THAT PRESIDENT IS
[001:22:28;159] OVER THERE, THE MORE WE'RE
[001:22:31;229] TEARING THE HEART AND SOUL OUT
[001:22:33;298] OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
[001:22:37;168] LET US DO IT NOW.
[001:22:38;303] THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE
[001:22:39;237] GENTLEMAN'S TIME HAS EXPIR
[001:22:43;408] >> THE HOUSE VOTED TO 23-205 TO
[001:22:49;581] APPROVE THE RESOLUTION, FORMALLY
[001:22:53;385] CALLING ON VICE PRESIDENT PENCE
[001:22:54;119] TO INVOKE THE 25TH AMENDMENT TO
[001:22:55;654] REMOVE PRESIDENT FROM OFFICE.
[001:22:57;422] THE CONGRESSMAN OF ILLINOIS WAS
[001:22:59;090] THE ONLY REPUBLICAN TO VOTE FOR
[001:23:00;825] THE RESOLUTION.
[001:23:02;527] THE HOUSE CONSIDERS ARTICLES OF
[001:23:04;996] IMPEACHMENT AGAINST PRESIDENT
[001:23:06;097] TRUMP WEDNESDAY AT 9:00 A.M.
[001:23:06;765] EASTERN.
[001:23:08;900] >> THE HOUSE RETURNS WEDNESDAY
[001:23:13;772] AT NINE :00 A.M. EASTERN TO
[001:23:15;073] DEBATE THE IMPEACHMENT
[001:23:15;807] RESOLUTION AGAINST PRESIDENT
[001:23:17;842] TRUMP, FOLLOWING THE JANUARY 6
[001:23:20;545] ATTACKS ON THE U.S. CAPITOL.
[001:23:23;014] TUESDAY, MEMBERS DEBATED AND
[001:23:25;383] APPROVED A RESOLUTION URGING
[001:23:26;051] MIKE PENCE TO INVOKE THE 25TH
[001:23:28;520] AMENDMENT TO REMOVE PRESIDENT
[001:23:29;654] TRUMP FROM OFFICE.
[001:23:31;222] THE VICE PRESIDENT HAS SENT A
[001:23:32;524] LETTER TO THE SPEAKER, ASKING
[001:23:34;359] THAT THE HOUSE NOT GO THROUGH
[001:23:35;794] WITH THE RESOLUTION.
[001:23:37;429] WHEN MEMBERS RETURN ON WEDNESDAY
[001:23:38;997] THEY WILL CONSIDER THE RULES FOR
[001:23:40;899] DEBATING THE IMPEACHMENT
[001:23:41;499] RESOLUTION.
[001:23:42;600] ONCE THOSE RULES ARE PASSED,
[001:23:45;704] THEY WILL DEBATE ARTICLES OF
[001:23:46;371] IMPEACHMENT AND HOLD A FINAL
[001:23:47;038] VOTE.
[001:23:48;773] LIVE COVERAGE OF THE U.S. HOUSE
[001:23:50;275] CONTINUES LIVE AT 9:00 A.M.
[001:23:51;142] EASTERN ON C-SPAN.
[001:23:54;879] >> C-SPAN'S WASHINGTON JOURNAL,
[001:23:59;818] EVERY DAY WE ARE TAKING YOUR
[001:24:01;019] CALLS LIVE ON THE AIR ON THE
[001:24:03;054] NEWS OF THE DAY.
[001:24:04;422] WE WILL DISCUSS POLICY ISSUES
[001:24:06;424] THAT IMPACT YOU.
[001:24:08;126] WEDNESDAY MORNING, A DISCUSSION
[001:24:09;127] ABOUT THE HOUSE IMPEACHMENT VOTE
[001:24:10;762] AGAINST PRESIDENT TRUMP FOR HIS
[001:24:12;230] ROLE IN THE ATTACK ON CAPITOL
[001:24:14;265] HILL, WITH DEMOCRATIC
[001:24:15;266] CONGRESSMAN AL GREEN IN UTAH'S
[001:24:19;871] REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN JOHN
[001:24:20;872] CURTIS.
[001:24:21;372] WATCH WASHINGTON JOURNAL LIVE AT
[001:24:23;675] 7:00 EASTERN WEDNESDAY MORNING
[001:24:25;076] AND JOINED THE DISCUSSION WITH
[001:24:27;479] PHONE CALLS, FACEBOOK COMMENTS,
[001:24:28;213] TEXT MESSAGES AND TWEETS.
[001:24:52;403] >> WITH THE VOTES IN THE 2020
[001:24:53;104] PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION NOW
[001:24:55;473] COUNTED AND CONFIRMED BY
[001:24:57;275] CONGRESS, ATTENTION TURNS TO THE
[001:24:58;309] INAUGURATION OF THE 46TH
[001:25:01;379] PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
[001:25:04;482] ON JANUARY 20, JOE BIDEN AND,
[001:25:05;183] KAMALA HARRIS TAKE THE OATH OF
[001:25:07;886] OFFICE AS PRESIDENT AND VICE
[001:25:08;553] PRESIDENT OF THE U.S.
[001:25:10;655] LIVE COVERAGE BEGINS JANUARY 20
[001:25:12;690] AT 8:00 EASTERN.
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[001:25:18;930] RADIO APP.
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[001:25:46;624] >> TONIGHT, THE HOUSE RULES
[001:25:51;162] COMMITTEE DEBATED A RESOLUTION
[001:25:53;198] TO IMPEACH PRESIDENT TRUMP FOR
[001:25:54;799] HIS ALLEGED ROLE IN THE JANUARY
[001:25:56;868] 6 ATTACK ON THE U.S. CAPITOL.
[001:25:58;903] THE RESOLUTION