I thank the gentleman for yielding. On Monday, the House will meet at 12 p.m. for morning-hour debate and 2 p.m. for legislative business with votes postponed until 6:30. On Tuesday and Wednesday, the House will meet at 10 a.m. for…

The whip continues to ignore the fact that there were very different circumstances. There were two special prosecutors with respect to Nixon and one special prosecutor with respect to Mr. Clinton. That was a radically different position…

No, the rules of the committee in terms of subpoenas and witnesses. We are following that rule. He complains about it. Madam Speaker, he hasn't answered the substantive question. They don't have an answer to the substantive question…

--and hurt our allies in the fight against ISIS, and has now reached an agreement that the President claimed some victory on where the Turks got everything they wanted and our allies are going to be pushed out.

He said: I didn't file a charge because I cannot file a charge against the President of the United States under Justice Department rules.

The answer is that we are involved in exercising our constitutional responsibility to oversee, to make sure that the laws of this Nation and the Constitution of this Nation are honored in practice and in spirit but particularly in…

When he is talking about the whistleblower, is that the person that the President of the United States said ought to be treated as if he had done treason? And we know what we do to those who commit treason. Is that the whistleblower you…

Why didn't he file a charge? And if you read the report, as I am sure you did----

I thank the gentleman for yielding. He hasn't answered my question yet, but I will assert again----

He was an employee and working for the Justice Department. He was under the aegis of the Deputy Attorney General of the United States. He was not an independent actor, a special prosecutor. He was an employee of the Justice Department. And…

But the substance of these charges--and I asked him about one. He hasn't answered the question of whether he thinks it is appropriate to ask a foreign leader for a favor. He says, no, he didn't ask for a favor.

--with respect to that under the rules that the Republicans adopted in their rules package and applied to our side when we were in the minority, Madam Speaker. The same rules that they imposed upon us they are now complaining about because…

--about it being his rule. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Ms. Garcia of Texas). Gentlemen, gentlemen, please. Let's have some order.

Does the gentleman not trust Mr. Nunes? Apparently, there is no answer to that question. Mr. Nunes is the ranking Republican and very close friend, associate, and defender of the President of the United States. He is there to hear every…

There is no such rule. There are no requirements for any committee to undertake any investigation that you have to have a rule passed by this House. And the gentleman apparently thinks that, by having an investigation and an inquiry…

But Mr. Scalise believes, Madam Speaker, the more he repeats it, somebody will believe it.

When we were in the minority, we were not allowed to do what you are requesting to do. We were not allowed to do it----

Before I do that, let me say, collusion, by the way, my friend, is not a crime. What, however, Mr. Mueller did find is that there was reason to believe that there was obstruction of justice, which is a crime. He said, however, that, under…