Darrell Issa: “This is so frustrating because today we are, in fact, impeaching upon. We are impeaching upon for the President. The…”

“This is so frustrating because today we are, in fact, impeaching upon. We are impeaching upon for the President. The Secretary is being impeached for what he did wrong. He is, in fact, guilty as alleged, but, in fact, he is just part of the high crimes and misdemeanors of the President of the United States. It was the President's decision to, in fact, undo policies that were working, to reverse, to make a systemic change that in my district, with over 55 miles of Mexican border, my border agents are reduced to being Uber drivers for everyone coming over the border. I am perfectly willing to listen to people say that this is a policy difference, but it is not. To faithfully execute the mission, you can have differences in how to do it. To thwart the very execution of that mission, which Secretary Mayorkas has done, is, in fact, an impeachable offense. I have some sympathy for him because I believe he is just obeying the orders of his boss, but that has been said before. That excuse has been used. The fact is, he took an oath. He must faithfully execute that oath. If he cannot, because the President will not let him do it, then he needs to resign. As we impeach the first Cabinet officer in well over 100 years, the fact is, he should have resigned rather than to do things which were adverse to the Constitution, adverse to his oath, but upon the orders and duty of the President. The President can be wrong. The President can order high crimes and misdemeanors.…”