On the recordDecember 12, 2019
By the way, if the President is victorious in the courts, would the gentleman recognize that he did lose that case, or would the gentleman say that was obfuscation, following the legal process? Again, President Obama, for 6 years on Fast and Furious--just one case, 6 years. The gentleman hasn't been in the majority for a year yet, and somehow that is so long, a week later response is so long that the majority should impeach a President, when, just on Fast and Furious, we didn't get questions we wanted answered from the White House, and in some cases it took 6 years. Some of that went through the courts. We won some of those cases, by the way. We didn't win all of them, but we surely did win some of those cases. But when we won a case against the President, meaning he violated some component of the law, we didn't impeach him for it, but we got the information, eventually. It took a lot longer than we would have liked. But the President, just like President Obama, had the legal right to appeal decisions that he might not have agreed with in courts like the Ninth Circuit, which has one of the highest overturn rates of any circuit in the country. So, if a circuit got it wrong and ultimately somewhere up higher they get it right, is that somehow something we should impeach a President of the United States for because they exercised their Article III powers to go to a judicial branch to get an answer to a question? Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Maryland.
