Cedric Richmond

I think we, as a country and as a State, are--really need to look at options we can do to make sure people can have paid sick leave.

The coronavirus will not ask any person's partisan affiliation before infecting them. There is no Democratic or Republican approach to fighting infectious disease; only sound and unsound measures.

I want to commend the subcommittee for moving quickly to gather information and educate the public about the coronavirus epidemic that originated in China and has now spread to countries around the world, including our own.

We must ensure that science and expertise guide our actions, not fear, wishful thinking, or politics.

There is simply no reason, none, why the United States lags behind nations like South Korea and Singapore in protecting its people.

I am not here to make excuses, I am not here to explain away things.

I think it is important to get a coordinated response out.

I was pleased to hear last week's panel of witnesses agree with the President's selection of the Vice President to lead the coronavirus task force.

I just believe that we owe it to them for you all to get one message, one plan, and start to implement it.

Sometimes you have to have the resources to protect the American people.

If we enacted that budget, as presented to us, would Americans be more or less safe?

Have you, FEMA director reached out to the people in Tennessee to offer assistance?

But the 3,000 are the ones that you all deemed to be the highest risk in the country.

We have to think about those small things as well as the big things.

We want to protect the homeland and you can't do it with less resources.

Either they are good-faith actors or they are not.

We need to help them and invest.

You have to understand that this is a country that is being occupied by his friend Putin, and he is holding up the vital aid for them to protect their country because he says it's about corruption.

But we know from the facts in this case, from the three people who testified under oath that all this was about was making sure that he gets an investigation into Joe Biden.

What is extraordinary is the gymnastics and hurdles that my colleagues on the other side are going through to make sure that they just throw a whole bunch of stuff at the wall, hope that they confuse the American people, hope that…

This Committee, the Judiciary Committee in the House, when it impeached Judge Thomas Porteous from Louisiana, which my colleague is very aware of, and it went over to the Senate and was voted on unanimously, 96 to zero, had the same exact…

To my Republican colleagues fighting when it's comfortable is easy, running and hiding is easy, but it doesn't leave a legacy. How do you want to be remembered during this watershed moment in our nation's history?

The Constitution does vest the President with certain powers, but not the power to lie, not the power to obstruct, not the power to cheat our democracy, not the power to threaten our security, there is no question that the President has…

I've heard Republicans say, why are we rushing to judgment? This is not a rush to judgment. It's a rush to justice. And we must not delay. Corruption is corrosive.

President Trump, on January 20, 2015, you raised your hand and swore to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution. Now we must preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution from you.