Steve Scalise

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We reached an agreement, Chairman Richie Neal from House Ways and Means Committee, with the Administration on the United States-Mexico-Canada Trade Agreement.

Hopefully, we will get to the bottom of whatever Chairman Schiff has done with these phone records. I do want to correct the Record. Ambassador Sondland was asked, under oath, in committee: Has anyone on the planet shown any direction…

I would like to ask--I know there are a lot of good-faith negotiations that continue on the United States- Mexico-Canada trade agreement, USMCA. We have been having productive conversations, meetings, some potential changes that I know we…

I rise for the purpose of inquiring of the majority leader the schedule for the week to come, and I yield to the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Hoyer), my colleague and friend.

Again, we know the rules of the Senate. They operate differently. We might both agree that we would do things differently. We do things differently in the House than they do. Ultimately, both sides have to come to an agreement, and…

Because it had poison pills in it. The level of funding wasn't the issue. It was the limitations on the Defense Department to be able to do their job properly that were added in, when everyone knew those were partisan additions that had…

I appreciate that update from the gentleman on the schedule. Obviously, next week we will have a number of other items. I yield to the gentleman.

We worked with this Committee and these members because OMSA understood that if changes to the Jones Act are necessary, Congress should enact them.

The only two people that are at the heart of this are President Trump and President Zelensky and we've already seen the transcripts. So, what other people think about a conversation is really secondary to the fact that the two men that…

Here is another headline: ``Democrats Writing More Subpoenas Than Laws.'' That is a headline. That is what angers people who want to see their prescription drug prices lowered, but they can't because of this infatuation with impeachment…

You can only read it in the press because of selective leaking. And so that is how Members of Congress are supposed to make a determination on impeachment of the President, based on selected leaks to the press?

Who can call the witnesses? Just your side. You think it is fair that only you can call the witnesses, and then you want to get the truth? Are you going to get the facts when you shut out the other side? When you don't let the President…

I would be happy to yield when we talk about all the things that this House could be doing that it is not, like lowering drug prices, like getting better trade deals with our friends in Mexico and in Canada and in all the other countries…

The law requires the President to verify that there is not corruption involved with the taxpayer money that is in question. That is a law we passed. I believe the gentleman from Maryland voted, as I did vote, for that law. It is a good law…

I, again, ask the question I had asked last week: Are we currently in an impeachment inquiry, as the Speaker said we are a few weeks ago?

I thank the gentleman for his response. I would like the gentleman to walk through, if he could, the scheduling process for how the House will further proceed with the impeachment inquiry.

I rise for the purpose of inquiring of the majority leader the schedule for next week. I would be happy to yield to my friend, the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Hoyer), the distinguished majority leader of the House.

I thank the gentleman. Maybe we would both agree that it might be helpful if the four leaders--the Speaker, the minority leader, the Senate majority leader, and Senate minority leader--got in a room and agreed not to leave until they come…

And the Chief of Staff talked about corruption, which is the law, by the way. The law says we have to root out corruption.

I am talking about fairness, both sides having equal access to call witnesses, to counter things that are said that are inaccurate, which are, right now, not being allowed to happen. Again, it is in secret. Nobody can see. You can make…

The last time it was done was during Bill Clinton's time in office. That was the last time it was done.

That is accurate. Did he file a single charge? Please name it, because I haven't seen the charge because it doesn't exist. Madam Speaker, I yield to the gentleman.

He filed no charges. He had authority. He filed no charges. He found nothing that rose to the level of filing charges that he had the full authority to do.

We never had an impeachment inquiry. We are talking about an impeachment inquiry, which has been done before--there is precedent--three times, and it has always been done the same way. You are now having an impeachment inquiry, but you are…