Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman for yielding. Madam Speaker, I reject wholly and fully the premise underlying the whip's representation. There is no unfairness in this process. The Republicans are like the lawyer who does not have the facts, because if he has the facts, he pounds on the facts; or if he has the law on his side, he pounds on the law. But if he neither has facts nor the law on his side, he pounds on the table, Madam Speaker. He makes noise. The Republicans talk about process, not the substance. And the process, quite interestingly enough, is much of what the Republicans put in the rules that we included in our rules when we adopted them. And as the whip clearly knows, one of the strongest advocates and defenders of the President of the United States sits there in the hearing, asks questions, can review documents, and could go right back to the White House and to all of your Members and say: This is what happened. There is no unfairness in this, and no requirement that we have a vote. The committee is doing its job of fact-finding. Frankly, the White House counsel wrote a letter filled with eight pages that clearly misconstrues the status of this process; treats it as if it were the trial. We do not conduct the trial, Madam Speaker. The Senate conducts the trial. And just as in our legal due process system, when that occurs, the President will have all of that due process, I am sure, extended to him by the House of Representatives.…”