Adam Schiff

Most of what he has done is ineffectual, in that it doesn't do anything. That which would purport to do something is of dubious legality.

It's been pulling teeth to get the intelligence community to say what they have. The first statement that they issued a couple of weeks ago, of course, was even more generic, refused to even acknowledge what we knew.

He cannot confront the Russians, no matter what. He will not stand up to Putin, for whatever reason, maybe for many reasons. He debases himself before Putin. And he's just utterly unwilling to defend our democracy.

I wish the members of the House and Senate, my colleagues in the GOP would realize that they are vulnerable to no American is safe when the Attorney General is not looking out for the interests of justice, but only looking out for the…

I do think though, that it's very important that we expose the full wrongdoing of this administration, both the wrongdoing of the Attorney General as well as the President of the United States.

This is a very precarious situation for the rule of law in this country. We look more and more like an emerging democracy than we do, the strongest democracy in the globe.

I certainly would, you know, I've always said that he's a second most dangerous man in the country. And what he's done to that department that I served with for almost six years is so reprehensible and dangerous to the rule of law, because…

I think it's important to put the questions to the Attorney General, whether he answers them or answers them truthfully, to expose his lack of character, the American people.

I am pleased we are providing additional funding for SBA relief programs, but I am deeply concerned that, without further programmatic changes and further assistance, many small businesses will be forced to close permanently, causing…

I believe that Federal agencies should always strive to respect the desires of the local communities in which they work, particularly when using potentially harmful chemicals on public lands.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

I am thrilled that the Corps included significant funding for the LA River project in its Work Plan for Fiscal Year 2020.

This project--decades in the making--will restore the river's original natural beauty and revitalize over 700 acres of aquatic ecosystem.

I urge the committee to consider such a provision as it drafts a Water Resources Development Act of 2020.

The actions that we take today, including impeaching the president and trying him, I think, will have the effect of slowing that momentum of the country away from democracy, until we return to our bearings and once again we have an…

And for those senators -- and there have been a few -- to say, we didn't need to hear from John Bolton because, basically, the House proved the president guilty, even without him, and we should let the voters decide, they could not explain…

What Mitt Romney did in particular demonstrates that one person can change the course of history.

I find myself optimistic coming out of this trial, which may be counterintuitive.

Mr. Trump gave the instruction that Mr. Bolton wrote during an Oval Office conversation in early May.

Mr. Trump gave the instruction, Mr. Bolton wrote, during an Oval Office conversation in early May that included the acting White House chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, the president's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, and the White House…

Yet another reason why we ought to hear from witnesses. The facts will come out. They will continue to come out.

Rob this country of a fair trial, and there can be no representation that the verdict has any meaning. How could it? If the result is baked in by the process?

What is not permitted is for a president to withhold congressionally-appropriated money for a corrupt purpose, to secure help, elicit foreign help to cheat in an election.

I don't think we could have imagined a circumstance where a President of the United States would have told a foreign leader that the U.S. Ambassador, our anti-corruption champion in Ukraine, was 'going to go through some things.'

If the President is allowed to decide which subpoenas they will deign to consider valid and which they will deign to consider invalid, your oversight power, our oversight power is gone.