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.

I thank the gentleman from New York (Mr. Nadler) for yielding and for his sponsorship of this important legislation. I rise in strong support. Special Counsel Robert Mueller was appointed in May 2017 to oversee the ongoing criminal and…

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.

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

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.

There is a complete and I think it's a groupthink lack of political courage in the GOP right now.

They will be forced to go on the record of whether they're going to defend the Constitution or they're going to merely do the president's will.

It will certainly be challenged in the courts and it will be stopped in the courts. I think it is likely, although speaking just for myself and not as a representative of the leadership that we will have an opportunity to vote and…

I don't think he cares at all whether this passes constitutional muster. Certainly doesn't care whether it's constitutional.

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.

the fact that Mitch McConnell would warn him privately, but then do a complete 180 and publicly embrace this shows you just the kind of capitulation that is endangering the rule of law in our system of checks and balances.

the president's emergency declaration is plainly unconstitutional.

If it was an emergency every time the president of the United States couldn't get what they wanted from Congress, we would be in a constant state of emergency.

The president has had two years of a Congress that would simply do no oversight whatsoever. And so the idea of meaningful oversight, the idea of Congress is a coequal branch clearly terrifies the president.

the investigation is going to be broad, it's not going to be circumscribed

We are certainly ready to find common ground on border security.

We're not going to turn and look the other way when we see corruption or malfeasance.

I know how you feel. Let's all be honest. We know the president's guilty, whether or not you're willing to come out and admit that, you know what he did was wrong.

You can say a lot of things about President Trump but he is not led by the nose by Rudy Giuliani.

This is a man who cannot be trusted to be president of the United States to put the U.S.'s interests first and foremost above his own.

I join my colleagues on a bipartisan basis, and I thank my colleague from Texas for his support to disapprove of this relaxation of sanctions on Russia and Mr. Deripaska, and to urge the rest of the Congress to join us. Mr. McCAUL. Mr…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. I rise in support of the joint resolution, which disapproves the removal of sanctions against three companies owned by the Russian oligarch and Putin crony, Oleg Deripaska. Mr. Deripaska's complicity and…

the more the president acts in the Russian interest, these revelations that he wanted to withdraw from NATO and kept bringing up withdrawing from NATO, I mean, that is an idea so much at odds with our national security interests on a very…

And it kind of begs the imagination why this private, secret conversation with Putin.