Cedric Richmond

If you gave $550 million to an administration you knew that was corrupt, what happens between 2018 and 2019, besides you being scared to death of your next political opponent?

This committee, the Judiciary Committee in the House, when it impeached Judge Thomas Porteous from Louisiana... had the same exact language in it.

Let's look at the three witnesses that testified under oath. Vindman, Lieutenant Colonel, Purple Heart. He said it was a meeting in exchange for an investigation into the Bidens.

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…

Some people say 'quid pro quo.' Some people translate into the American definition of 'a this for a that.'

Well, he is shooting holes in our Constitution on Pennsylvania Avenue.

Now we must preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution from you.

So that was after everything came out to light?

I want to talk about how the President did the same thing with almost 400 million taxpayer dollars to pressure Ukraine to do his personal bidding.

So the President was concerned about the two investigations, and note that was the predicate for releasing military aid to our ally?

Mr. Chairman, I'd like to enter into the record evidence uncovered by the committee from the House Budget and Appropriations Committees that documents OMB placing a hold on the Ukrainian security assistance on July 25.

I'd like then to--let's go back. There was also discussion earlier during the minority questioning that Mr. Sandy from OMB said that the reason for the security assistance hold was related to the President's concerns about burden sharing…

Now, my Republican colleagues have suggested that the Ukrainians did not even know about the military aid being withheld. Is that true?

This is not an easy decision, it's not a comfortable decision, but it's one that's necessary.

I think we have begun a process that is going to take time to build the confidence in State and local election officials.

Voters deserve to know that they will be able to vote when they show up.

We must set aside party politics and work together to improve election security.

I urge the White House to accept the intelligence community's unanimous conclusions about 2016 meddling.

It is an undisputable fact that in 2016 the Russian Government carried out a concerted, sophisticated operation to meddle in our Presidential election.

It is very important for the people in this country to believe in the elections that we have.

I think of it from a war on terrorism point of view, and it took us almost 15 years to develop the capacity to do what we have done here since 9/11.

I believe that it is bipartisan, that we want to protect our elections and protect our democracy, and make sure that every vote matters.

This threat is real, and it is personal.

It is imperative that you come to meet with the 49 Members of the CBC to address our concerns.

Our constituents continue to express their frustration about being ignored and being attacked for exercising their constitutionally-protected right to free speech to protest inequities across American institutions.