Adam Schiff

I am sorry. I couldn't hear the ruling of the Chair. The gentleman asked for unanimous consent. The Acting CHAIR. The Parliamentarian advised that the request cannot be entertained in the Committee of the Whole.

Did the Chair offer time in opposition to the amendment? The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from South Carolina claimed the time. The Chair looked to see who was seeking recognition, and went to the gentleman who was standing.

May I make a parliamentary inquiry? The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from California will state his parliamentary inquiry.

It is now a pleasure to yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from New York (Mr. Sean Patrick Maloney).

I am proud to yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Washington State (Mr. Heck).

I am proud to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Quigley).

I thank the chair for her support. This amendment sends a clear message to the American people that Congress recognizes the importance of vaccination and immunization in the United States and urges individuals to follow the advice of their…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 90, line 6, after the first dollar amount, insert ``(increased by $5,000,000) (reduced by…

I think that Bob Mueller has one more service to provide the country, much as he appears reluctant to do so, and that is, he really should testify before the Congress.

Well, again, I think Mueller was more than capable of asserting that if that's the conclusion that he had reached, that the president should be impeached. But, no, he said, this is now in the hands of Congress.

Unless the United States fights to protect press freedom, authoritarians around the world will stifle it.

Access to accurate journalism that holds governments accountable is the indispensable tool that allows citizens to exercise oversight over their government.

I think the administration is certainly pushing the Congress in that direction by obstructing everything.

At the end of the day, we have to make sure that the oversight work gets done. Otherwise, the country is vulnerable. He becomes a completely lawless president.

I don't think they're going to be able to stonewall through the election. But, yes, they're trying to buy time, they're trying to draw this out and simultaneously blame Democrats for how long the investigation is taking.

We are, we are. We've never had a president who's so blanketly, uniformly said, Congress, you have no business overseeing what our administration is doing.

Our focus is on the counterintelligence and foreign intelligence part of this.

It's impressive that on a bipartisan basis, they want to bring don Jr. back before the committee.

This is what he was hired to do, which was to protect the president. But it is deeply concerning.

My colleagues might think it is OK that the Russians offered dirt on a Democratic candidate for president as part of what was described as the Russian government's effort to help the Trump campaign. You might think that's OK. I don't.

Congress' interest and the public's interest and an expeditious investigation by the Congress will be severely inhibited if we have to retrace all the steps that the Mueller team took with far greater resources.

The statement by Paul Manafort's lawyer after an already lenient sentence repeating the president's mantra of no collusion was no accident. It was a deliberate appeal for a pardon. One injustice must not follow another.

I have made it abundantly clear to Mr. Cohen that if he comes here today and he does not tell him the truth--tell us the truth, I will be the first one to refer that--those untruthful statements to DOJ.

We need to assess and investigate this new evidence as we uphold our constitutional--our oversight responsibilities.

What is primary for him is keeping control of the majority in the Senate. And if that means that he's going to go along with the president on a plainly unconstitutional act, apparently he is willing to do that.