I take issue at insult that one would suggest the work of this committee is about a dislike for those who voted for President Trump.

The President of the United States cannot abuse his power and cannot obstruct Congress.

I disagree with the President on cutting SNAP for poor people.

The Constitution is a guide which I will never abandon.

The truth is, this President did ask for a favor, though.

The President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, perpetrated constitutional crimes.

President Trump violated his oath of office by placing his personal and political interests above the national interests.

President Trump betrayed the national interest by withholding vital, congressionally appropriated security to a beleaguered and besieged ally.

The essential purpose of the scheme concocted by President Trump was to enlist a foreign country to help him fix the 2020 presidential election in his favor.

I think before I begin to comment on the discussion here that it is important to remind all of us that the President abused his power and is a continuing threat not only to democracy but to our national security.

This is a serious war where our men and women in the military are on the ground trying to assist.

I hold in my hands that unclassified transcript. I beg to differ with my friends.

Ukraine is in the midst of a war against a nation that shot down, at least some of those alleged to be separatists, using Russian weapons.

It is not frivolous and without facts that we proceed. We proceed with facts, and we take this in a very somber manner.

That is all we are doing on behalf of the American people, and protecting the national security of this Nation.

I think it is also important that the Department of Defense and State Department have confirmed that Ukraine had met all anticorruption benchmarks and the aid should be released.

In addition, President Trump's advisers confirmed that President Trump's investigations of 2016 election interference and the Bidens were not U.S. policy.

I would like you to do us a favor, though, that that was not tied to the 'us' representing the entity of a public representation.