On the recordOctober 18, 2019
Madam Speaker, with all due respect, this process is rotten to the core. The gentleman can talk about process, and he can talk about facts. The facts point out that this process is shrouded in secrecy. Madam Speaker, you literally have a chairman who was running around for 2 years during the whole Mueller investigation saying that he had ``more than circumstantial evidence'' that there was collusion between the President and Russia. And then the Mueller Report comes out, and there were no charges. There was no collusion. In fact, the chairman never showed his secret evidence. If he had evidence ``more than circumstantial''--his quotes--then he should have shown it to the American people. But he didn't because there was no evidence. Those were the facts. If the facts were there, Madam Speaker, you know he would have shown that evidence. It didn't exist. Instead of moving on and taking care of the work of the people of this country, it is another witch hunt. It is another fishing expedition in secret. The gentleman talks about fairness, why is it that voting Members of Congress are being denied access to the room? The press doesn't have access to these hearings that the gentleman calls fair. He calls them fair. There was never even a vote of this House to start an impeachment inquiry.…





