Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, it is my honor to be recognized and address you here on the floor of the United States House of Representatives. I come before you this morning to remind this House and to speak about the procedure that is pending in the Senate and some activities that need to take place in this House before that is likely to happen, and that, of course, is the impeachment of the President of the United States. It took place December 18, and we will have been waiting nearly a month before the Articles of Impeachment would be transferred over to the United States Senate which would then begin the enactment of a trial--hopefully a fair trial--with an opportunity for the President to defend himself over in the United States Senate. I was here in this city for 3 days of the impeachment hearings before the House Judiciary Committee in 1998 and I was able to observe the activities here in this House and how people acted. I will say the people who were defending Bill Clinton were not serious outside the camera and in the House Judiciary Committee. Here we have an impeachment that has been brought forward on two different charges and we have watched as from the beginning, from clear back in November of 2016, this discussion about impeaching the President of the United States began. It began on November 9 when the first Democrat stepped up and said: We are going to impeach this President.…”