I thank the gentleman for yielding, and I know he is very interested in reading the whole thing, so let me read him some more of the report we got from the White House. The other thing: ``There's a lot of talk about Biden's son, that Biden…

We have moved over 250 bills to the Senate. A number of those are very important bills in the sense that they affect a large number of people. We passed making permanent the Land and Water Conservation Fund, and 133 Republicans voted for…

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

The Justice Department refused to investigate this case, notwithstanding the waterfall of facts and information that raise questions. We haven't resolved the answers to those questions, but we are investigating them because it is our…

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…

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…

I thank my friend for yielding. I was going to mention Elijah at the end of our colloquy, but it was an extraordinarily sad day to hear of the loss yesterday, in the very early morning, of a colleague who was gentle, decent, honest, of…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. On Monday, the House will meet at 12 p.m. for morning-hour debate and 2 p.m. for legislative business with votes postponed until 6:30. On Tuesday and Wednesday, the House will meet at 10 a.m. for…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Madam Speaker, it is a two-House legislature. One is led by Republicans; one is led by Democrats. The reason we don't have 302(b) is because the Senate couldn't agree with itself on 302(b)s. I talked to…

The gentleman mentioned the Justice Department. Mr. Barr is essentially Mr. Trump's lawyer. Mr. Trump mentioned him in the transcript, too--it is not a transcript; it is a report of the call-- and said: Talk to Barr, and he'll come over…

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

The polls reflect that the public believes we ought to be doing what we are doing.

No, the rules of the committee in terms of subpoenas and witnesses. We are following that rule. He complains about it. Madam Speaker, he hasn't answered the substantive question. They don't have an answer to the substantive question…

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

You know how this process works. Let them pass whatever bill they want; we will go to conference. We have our position; they have their position. It is led by your party. They haven't passed a single bill. You talk about getting a 302(b)…

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----

What I said was that we are going to obviously have, and the committee is having, a hearing on that very matter without a vote of this committee, because it is their responsibility. And your minority member, Mr. McCaul, is for that…

--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…

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

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…

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.

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…

He was an employee and working for the Justice Department. He was under the aegis of the Deputy Attorney General of the United States. He was not an independent actor, a special prosecutor. He was an employee of the Justice Department. And…

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

Before I do that, let me say, collusion, by the way, my friend, is not a crime. What, however, Mr. Mueller did find is that there was reason to believe that there was obstruction of justice, which is a crime. He said, however, that, under…