Doug Collins

If this is muddying the waters, y'all are an EPA hazardous waste site at this point.

There is no way to recover from that.

This is a just travesty and a sham from day one.

This committee has now sounded the death of minority rights in this committee.

The amendment in the nature of a substitute is absolutely irrelevant.

It is just categorically wrong.

We can make up facts or we can not make up facts.

The American people deserve a process that puts politics aside.

The Articles of Impeachment before us in this committee do not meet the necessary requirements nor have they followed an exhaustive pursuit to even find out all of the facts of the case.

We sit here tonight without all the facts of the case because the majority decided to conduct an incomplete and inadequate pursuit of the truth.

The only thing that has changed is the opportunity from last November when you became the majority.

And at the end of the day, all this is about is about a clock and a calendar because they can't get over the fact Donald Trump is President of the United States and they don't have a candidate that they think can beat him.

I'm not being pressured, I'm not being--there's nothing here.

This impeachment process is a farce and a stain on the committee and on the House of Representatives.

The American people should feel cheated by the way this is all taking place.

But there is no good reason for voting to impeach and remove from office an American President without allowing a single question to be asked of a single witness to get an explanation for why the Inspector General was not told the truth…

That was nothing more than a smear campaign. And to say it's not is being disingenuous with this committee.

These are disputed facts. It'll be the first impeachment that is partisan, on facts that are not agreed to.

I'm sorry today that the majority chose to highlight their investigators and also the ones that have been brought in over these public servants.

The chairman continues to just disregard House rules.

It's interesting to me that staff told Members of Congress that that wasn't relevant or that wasn't relevant.

This is not what the Judiciary Committee should be doing.

It's just amazing that we continue to propagate that myth here tonight.

It does matter when they knew and didn't know.

This is a stunning abuse of power and a shameless travesty of justice that will stain the reputations of those responsible for generations to come.