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On the recordDecember 12, 2019
Just to keep the record clear, when the President made that phone call, the oft-misrepeated quote was this: ``I would like you to do us a favor though because our country has been through a lot and Ukraine knows a lot about it. I would like you to find out what happened with this whole situation with Ukraine, they say Crowdstrike . . . I guess you have one of your wealthy people . . . The server, they say Ukraine has it. There are a lot of things that went on, the whole situation. I think you are surrounding yourself with some of the same people.'' The President expressed some concern with what happened in 2016 and concern about what happened to our country. ``I would like you to do us a favor,'' and then he said, ``our country.'' There is no mention of Joe Biden in there, no mention of him. It is about getting to the bottom of the corruption that we all know happened. We might not have all the answers we want. We sure would like to get those answers, but it happened. It happened under Barack Obama and Joe Biden's watch. For whatever reason, they didn't do enough to stop it. {time} 1530 But when the gentleman asked if one of us would vote against Articles of Impeachment if it was President Obama, not one of us would have because we would have never brought these Articles of Impeachment. We didn't bring these kinds of Articles of Impeachment.…
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Steve Scalise
Republican · Louisiana

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