Mr. Speaker, I am delighted to have this opportunity to speak. I want to start by saying that my colleague from North Carolina is here, and I know there is going to be a group of Members from North Carolina who are coming to address their constituents. So if you are a North Carolinian looking in on this, you have come to the right place, but you are going to have to hear me first. I am speaking on behalf of the Progressive Caucus. I don't know if Representative Zeldin is still in the room. I couldn't quite resist the opportunity to respond to his provacative remarks where he said that it appears there are people in Congress who are so determined to take the President down. I couldn't really figure out who he was talking about. Then I realized he is probably referring to Republican Senator John McCain from Arizona, or maybe Republican Senator Jeff Flake from Arizona, or maybe Republican Senator Bob Corker from Tennessee, all of whom have blown the whistle this week on the egregious violations of the basic norms of the Presidency by this President, who continues to demonize and vilify U.S. citizens and engage in the pettiest and most juvenile of exchanges with people and generally demonstrate what most Americans now regard as his unfitness for the Presidency. So it seems like there was an attempt to make it a partisan issue.…
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