Jack Kingston: “today's vote is not about impeachment. Today's vote is about the search for truth. This is a vote that our grandchildren…”

“today's vote is not about impeachment. Today's vote is about the search for truth. This is a vote that our grandchildren will ask us about many years from now when our constituents have long forgotten us, many years from now when our terms of office have been behind us for many years. They will look up and say: ``Why did you vote the way you did?" Mr. Speaker, I think most Members are going to rise to this occasion and not vote by the polls, not vote by the parties and certainly not by the personalities, but vote for a higher reason: that question of does truth matter? What is right? What is wrong? Are we a Nation of laws? And do we want to affirm and uphold these laws? Do we see that as our constitutional oath of office? I believe that when the gavel is sounded, most of us, Democrats and Republicans, will affirm that we do uphold the values, that we will move towards the search for truth, not happily jumping into it, but soberly upholding our constitutional oaths of office.”