Adam Schiff

The House will have to evaluate whether the facts show bribery, treason high crimes and misdemeanors.

If the President believes that he can abuse his office, the power of that office, he can fail to defend our national security and there is no accountability.

We are getting an increasing appreciation for what just took place during the course of the last year and the degree to which the president enlisted the whole departments of government in the illicit aim of trying to get Ukraine to dig up…

John Bolton is a very important witness. He has relevant information and we do want him to come in to testify.

Our committee will not be a part of that. We will not stand for that, and I would hope that more of my GOP colleagues throughout the Congress on both sides of the capitol would express their support for whistle-blowers who have the courage…

The president would love to punish the whistle-blower. The president's comments and actions have jeopardized the whistle-blower's safety.

She deserved better than the shabby treatment she received from the President and Secretary of State.

I am proud to yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Pelosi), the Speaker.

With respect to my colleague, the only corruption the President seems to be concerned about is corruption that he is not involved with, and that seems to be an increasingly narrow category. Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman…

If in a matter within the jurisdiction of the director of national intelligence, you have an employee of that community or contractor or detailee who follows the law and makes a complaint, and it is possible for the subject of that…

This is sort of fifth grade logic.

No, it's just gibberish. It's don't investigate me, there's no conflict of interest here.

I think three or four weeks ago the complaint was filed. The inspector general then had two weeks to do the investigation, which he did. He found it credible, probably because he was able to corroborate at least some portion of it.

The process allows him to provide it first to the Director of National Intelligence and then the DNI has seven days to give it to us. There's no discretion. It says, they shall give it to us.

We have not been presented with a complaint, so we don't know precisely what it has to say. But we do know the inspector general did a preliminary investigation, found that those conditions were met, those are the conditions required by…

We are still investigating some of the issues raised in the Mueller report.

This is, I think, just another of a series of efforts to cover up misconduct, conceal it from the Congress, conceal it from the American people.

When Donald Trump called your investigation a witch hunt, that was also false, was it not?

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Securing the safe release of Americans held abroad is a top and urgent priority. Congress can play a role in keeping this issue at the forefront of public consciousness. With that in mind, I salute my…

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding to me. This amendment requires a report on a number of civil liberties questions regarding the Terrorist Screening Database. We need to structure our counterterrorism programs by thinking about not only…

I thank the gentleman through the Chair. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Washington is recognized for 1\1/2\ minutes.

If I could, Madam Chair, through the Chair to my colleague, I appreciate that. We will take you up on that. And on the next amendment that we have time, I will yield to my colleague, and your colleague may yield to you, if you have further…

So no one claimed the time in opposition? The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from South Carolina claimed the time and yielded back.

The gentleman offering the amendment has how much time? Because they claimed both the time on the amendment-- The Acting CHAIR. The proponent of the amendment has 2\1/2\ minutes remaining.

Well, if my colleagues in the minority--I don't know how much time they have both on the amendment and on the time in opposition to the amendment--but if they can yield to my colleague to make sure that he has time for his remarks out of…