Steny Hoyer

He is talking about subpoenas; he is talking about the right to see documents.

We adopted the rules adopted by the Republican majority in the last Congress dealing with this subject.

But the substance of these charges--and I asked him about one. He hasn't answered the question of whether he thinks it is appropriate to ask a foreign leader for a favor. He says, no, he didn't ask for a favor.

He said: I didn't file a charge because I cannot file a charge against the President of the United States under Justice Department rules.

Why didn't he file a charge? And if you read the report, as I am sure you did----

The whip continues to ignore the fact that there were very different circumstances. There were two special prosecutors with respect to Nixon and one special prosecutor with respect to Mr. Clinton. That was a radically different position…

Mr. Scalise ought to know this is not like any other one. I am not sure about Johnson. There was a special prosecutor in the Nixon case. Nixon fired the first one, Mr. Cox, you will recall. Mr. Jaworski succeeded him. There was a special…

--and hurt our allies in the fight against ISIS, and has now reached an agreement that the President claimed some victory on where the Turks got everything they wanted and our allies are going to be pushed out.

But Mr. Scalise believes, Madam Speaker, the more he repeats it, somebody will believe it.

When he is talking about the whistleblower, is that the person that the President of the United States said ought to be treated as if he had done treason? And we know what we do to those who commit treason. Is that the whistleblower you…

The answer is that we are involved in exercising our constitutional responsibility to oversee, to make sure that the laws of this Nation and the Constitution of this Nation are honored in practice and in spirit but particularly in…

--with respect to that under the rules that the Republicans adopted in their rules package and applied to our side when we were in the minority, Madam Speaker. The same rules that they imposed upon us they are now complaining about because…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. He hasn't answered my question yet, but I will assert again----

Does the gentleman not trust Mr. Nunes? Apparently, there is no answer to that question. Mr. Nunes is the ranking Republican and very close friend, associate, and defender of the President of the United States. He is there to hear every…

--about it being his rule. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Ms. Garcia of Texas). Gentlemen, gentlemen, please. Let's have some order.

When we were in the minority, we were not allowed to do what you are requesting to do. We were not allowed to do it----

The president's rationale for doing this, both publicly and in our meeting yesterday said, look, I said in the campaign, I was going to get the troops out of the Middle East.

I think the Turks are right. They got exactly what they wanted. And very frankly, probably the Iranians got what they wanted. Perhaps the Syrians got what they wanted to getting ISIS out of their territory.

It wasn't fine. It clearly was a quid pro quo. It didn't need to be stated this is the quid and that's the pro.

Well, essentially, what I understand, I didn't hear Mulvaney say it, but I understand he said yes, there was a quid pro quo, and in fact get daring people to get over it because that's foreign policy.

Read the bill, read the amendment that they offered. Eric Cantor called MTRs a gimmick. This is the gimmick of gimmicks. It does nothing for veterans' healthcare, not a single thing. You know it. I know it. Everybody in this House knows…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, the gentleman didn't answer my question, of course.

I wrote the gentleman a letter. Did he believe that that ad that I complained about and that I thought was so egregious, so disgusting, does he agree with me that that ad totally misrepresented what socialism is? It deluded the American…

I strongly support statehood for people--for the people of the District of Columbia.

Power concedes nothing without a demand.