Mr. Speaker, first of all, it is not a question. It is a false assertion that the gentleman is making. And so you can make claims about people, but ultimately, if it is not backed up in fact, you just continue on. This has been the pattern…

No, no. We are talking about the Mueller investigation, but it didn't happen. So the collusion argument that was supposedly going to yield some kind of ability to go and impeach the President didn't turn out to be true. So, instead of…

I will ultimately yield, but you mentioned all of these things, and so I want to clear up the things that the gentleman mentioned. So the Trey Gowdy committee, where four Americans died and we were trying to get to the bottom of that--not…

Mr. Speaker, if we really are about getting to the facts, to think that you can suggest it is a fair process when only one side gets to choose who the witnesses are--again, the gentleman references Trey Gowdy's committee. Chairman Gowdy…

If you want to run a grand jury, go get a jury. This is the United States Congress. Voting Members of Congress are being shut out of the room, Mr. Speaker. Voting Members of Congress are being shut out of this process. You want to call…

Mr. Speaker, I don't know if the gentleman is asserting that we will have a vote on impeachment, that might be breaking news, but if these Members, all of us, are going to vote on impeachment, shouldn't we be able to see what goes on…

Mr. Speaker, Mr. Hoyer mocked that the process is tainted, that the process is being run like it might be run in the Soviet Union, not in the United States of America. It has never been done like that before. And you talk about Trey Gowdy…

You can only read it in the press because of selective leaking. And so that is how Members of Congress are supposed to make a determination on impeachment of the President, based on selected leaks to the press?

The sad part is, the only way you can find out what happens in those secret hearings is reading the paper because somebody on the majority staff is, against the direction of the chairman, selectively leaking information to the press. The…

Mr. Speaker, the law requires the President to verify that there is not corruption involved with the taxpayer money that is in question. That is a law we passed. I believe the gentleman from Maryland voted, as I did vote, for that law. It…

Again, we can talk about why we needed to root out corruption, why we want to find out what happened in the 2016 election where the Russians tried to interfere, because we don't want it to happen again. We also know, as it was discussed on…

I would be happy to yield when we talk about all the things that this House could be doing that it is not, like lowering drug prices, like getting better trade deals with our friends in Mexico and in Canada and in all the other countries…

Well, first of all, the gentleman is making an assertion that has been disputed--in fact, disputed by the President of Ukraine, this alleged quid pro quo that didn't happen. Zelensky himself said it didn't happen. In fact, he got the…

Madam Speaker, like so many of my colleagues here today on the floor, I rise in strong opposition to the way that this impeachment inquiry is being conducted--in secret, behind closed doors. Madam Speaker, we had an election in 2016 and…

Madam Speaker, the Democrats' entire case against the President is built on hearsay, unverified third-party accounts, and opinion. No cop in America could righteously make any arrest with that degree of evidence, not even a misdemeanor…

Madam Speaker, we are here tonight to draw attention to the Democrats' unprecedented and dangerous impeachment exercise. It is unprecedented because this has simply never happened before. In our nearly two-and-a-half centuries as a nation…

I'm concerned about the 2020 election, especially considering the insecurity of our voting machines.

We must be prepared for our adversaries to use AI-generated deepfakes to create a false history.