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Steny Hoyer
@stenyhoyer· Democratic · MD· Oct 23, 2019

He has no evidence of that. If the gentleman will yield, he has no evidence of that.

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Steny Hoyer
@stenyhoyer· Democratic · MD· Oct 23, 2019

Mr. Scalise, watch your words. Watch your words, Mr. Scalise. You and I both know it has no analogy to what you have just said. You ought to know that. If you don't know it, you ought to sit down with your counsel and find out about it…

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Steny Hoyer
@stenyhoyer· Democratic · MD· Oct 23, 2019

It is not true, in my opinion, but he has no way to back up that statement, and I think the gentleman must know that.

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Steny Hoyer
@stenyhoyer· Democratic · MD· Oct 23, 2019

When they have concluded their private sessions, which are trying to get at the facts and not having been tainted by some circus. Everybody is going to have the right to see what evidence is adduced. That is the fear, of course, and I…

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Steny Hoyer
@stenyhoyer· Democratic · MD· Oct 23, 2019

Mr. Scalise, I know you are not a lawyer. Do you have any idea what a grand jury is?

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Steny Hoyer
@stenyhoyer· Democratic · MD· Oct 23, 2019

The gentleman keeps misstating the facts and the law and the process. Every Member is going to have access to all the documents, all the testimony before they are asked to vote on it, period.

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Steny Hoyer
@stenyhoyer· Democratic · MD· Oct 23, 2019

We passed over 250 bills. The Senate won't take them up, particularly one bill that says what 90 percent of the American people want done: Pass a comprehensive background check to make their communities safer. They won't bring it up. No…

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Ben Cardin
@bencardin· Democratic · MD· Oct 23, 2019

Mr. President, I regret that my colleague has raised the objection. Let me point out that this bill has been pending in previous Congresses. We have gone through all of the challenges my friend has already talked about. There are real…

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Ben Cardin
@bencardin· Democratic · MD· Oct 23, 2019

Mr. President, I think everyone in this Chamber would agree that free and fair elections are the bedrock of our democracy. We know it has been under attack. We know, from the Mueller report, that Russia, in 2016, used a systematic and…

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John Sarbanes
@johnsarbanes· Democratic · MD· Oct 23, 2019

I thank Chairwoman Lofgren for her incredible work. Nobody has done more in this Congress to protect our democracy and lift up the voices of everyday Americans than Zoe Lofgren, so I thank her for yielding. The measure of partisanship here…

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Steny Hoyer
@stenyhoyer· Democratic · MD· Oct 21, 2019

I have a motion at the desk. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion. The Clerk read as follows: Mr. Hoyer moves that the resolution be laid on the table. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion to table…

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Steny Hoyer
@stenyhoyer· Democratic · MD· Oct 18, 2019

The Justice Department refused to investigate this case, notwithstanding the waterfall of facts and information that raise questions. We haven't resolved the answers to those questions, but we are investigating them because it is our…

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Steny Hoyer
@stenyhoyer· Democratic · MD· Oct 18, 2019

We have moved over 250 bills to the Senate. A number of those are very important bills in the sense that they affect a large number of people. We passed making permanent the Land and Water Conservation Fund, and 133 Republicans voted for…

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Steny Hoyer
@stenyhoyer· Democratic · MD· Oct 18, 2019

He is talking about subpoenas; he is talking about the right to see documents.

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Steny Hoyer
@stenyhoyer· Democratic · MD· Oct 18, 2019

Mr. Scalise ought to know this is not like any other one. I am not sure about Johnson. There was a special prosecutor in the Nixon case. Nixon fired the first one, Mr. Cox, you will recall. Mr. Jaworski succeeded him. There was a special…

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Steny Hoyer
@stenyhoyer· Democratic · MD· Oct 18, 2019

I thank the gentleman for yielding, and I know he is very interested in reading the whole thing, so let me read him some more of the report we got from the White House. The other thing: ``There's a lot of talk about Biden's son, that Biden…

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Steny Hoyer
@stenyhoyer· Democratic · MD· Oct 18, 2019

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Madam Speaker, I reject wholly and fully the premise underlying the whip's representation. There is no unfairness in this process. The Republicans are like the lawyer who does not have the facts, because…

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Steny Hoyer
@stenyhoyer· Democratic · MD· Oct 18, 2019

I thank my friend for yielding. I was going to mention Elijah at the end of our colloquy, but it was an extraordinarily sad day to hear of the loss yesterday, in the very early morning, of a colleague who was gentle, decent, honest, of…

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