the President or any potential witness to this impeachment inquiry should be allowed to raise defenses without it being used as an adverse inference against him.

They intentionally made it literally impossible for us to review all material in any meaningful way mere hours before this fateful hearing.

Our Constitution vests the executive authority, including the enforcement of our laws, with the President, and it gives him sole authority to conduct our foreign affairs.

this impeachment inquiry has departed drastically from past bipartisan precedents for Presidential impeachment as well as the fundamental tenets of fair and effective congressional oversight.

The impeachment inquiry is clearly an orchestrated effort to upend our political system.

You see, presumption has now become the standard instead of proof.

The Democrats are fond of saying no one is above the law, but they have one unspoken caveat: except for themselves.

Democrats denied us witnesses. Democrats voted down subpoenas we sought to issue for both documents and testimony.

It's amazing that they start with impeachment, and then they spent 2 years trying to figure out, what do we impeach him on?

What we have become is a perpetual state of impeachment, and that is the problem that everyone on this dais should have.

Not one of their hand-picked witnesses provided any firsthand knowledge of the President ordering a quid pro quo.

As an attorney, as a chairman, as a Member of Congress who swore an oath to tell--basically to be honest with the American people and to uphold the Constitution, that was such a massive malpractice I've never seen.