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On the recordJanuary 9, 2024
Mr. President, I would like to thank my colleagues for joining me tonight to help me prosecute this case against Secretary Mayorkas. As we introduce this historic measure, I want to close with this: You have nothing--you have nothing--if you don't have your word. As a physician, I took an oath to, above all else, do no harm. In the military, I took an oath to support and defend our Constitution. In the Senate, I reaffirmed my military oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States. Each one of these oaths I honored with integrity and exercised to the best of my ability. On February 2, 2021, Secretary Mayorkas swore an oath to ``well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office of which I am about to enter and to protect our country from enemies, domestic and foreign.'' With that oath, he promised the American people that he would defend our homeland and uphold our Constitution. Tonight, my colleagues and I have outlined numerous ways Secretary Mayorkas is derelict in his duty as Secretary and failed to uphold this oath. We are here today because we take our oath seriously and will not stand by idly while Secretary Mayorkas threatens our national security and our democracy. For the sake of America's safety and security, we need to impeach Secretary Mayorkas now and send a clear message to Joe Biden that in 300 days, we will fire him, too. Mr.…
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